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| Module Availability |
Run once, throughout the year |
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| Assessment Pattern |
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Components of Assessment
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Method(s)
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Percentage weighting
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Coursework
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4 equally-weighted harmony exercises to be completed outside class.
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100%
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| Module Overview |
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| Prerequisites/Co-requisites |
| None for BMus Students |
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| Module Aims |
To develop your understanding of common-practice harmony. |
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| Learning Outcomes |
Upon completion of this module you should be able to:
- describe the principles of harmonic structuring in representative small-scale examples from the Baroque, Classical, and early Romantic periods
- compose small-scale pastiche pieces in the styles of the above periods
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| Module Content |
- analysis of Baroque, Classical, and early Romantic music in a variety of chamber-music genres;
- completion of exercises in pastiche composition drawing on the knowledge gained in such analyses.
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| Methods of Teaching/Learning |
20 one-hour group tutorials. Demonstrations by the tutor of the principles of diatonic and chromatic harmony will prepare the ground for group and individual work in class. Unassessed coursework will be set in preparation for assessed coursework.
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| Selected Texts/Journals |
The dynamics of Harmony – George Pratt – OUP
Harmonic practice in tonal music – Robert Gauldin – W W Norton
Harmony in action – David Tunley – faber & faber
Conterpoint in composition – Felix Salzer & Carl Schachter – Columbia Uni Press |
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| Last Updated |
19.5.2010 |
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