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MUS 325 – Musical Literacy
2015 – S2 Day
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| Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Waldo Garrido
Contact via waldo.garrido@mq.edu.au
Y3A 165F
By appointment
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| Credit points |
Credit points
3
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| Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
39cp
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| Corequisites |
Corequisites
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| Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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| Unit description |
Unit description
This unit engages students in critical and creative listening, understanding and performance of music, and aims to provide the student with analytical and conceptual foundations for advancing practical, aesthetic and critical awareness. Both the study of theory and aural recognition helps to develop performance skills in melodic and rhythmic competency, aural awareness and theoretical understanding. Assessment for the unit is founded on creative and performance projects, written assignments encompassing theory and notation, and aural recognition tasks.
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Important Academic Dates
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Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Analyse and evaluate musical theory in conventional Western European practice
- Identify and interpret melodic, harmonic and rhythmic structures in music
- Analyse and apply musical theory and practice through both notated and performed media
- Evaluate and apply theoretical structures to their own creative practice in music
- Critique and summarise the creative practices in musical performance of themselves and their peers
Assessment Tasks
| Name | Weighting | Due | Groupwork/Individual | Short Extension | AI Approach |
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| Theory Test | 30% | Week 8 | No | ||
| Aural Test | 20% | Week 11 | No | ||
| Creative Project and Paper | 50% | Week 13 | No |
Theory Test
Due: Week 8
Weighting: 30%
Groupwork/Individual:
Short extension 3: No
AI Approach:
This is a theory test that includes the material covered up to week 7. All questions will be derived from the text book.
Marking Criteria
- Accuracy of your answers
- This assessment will examine students in ALL the material covered in lectures and tutorials in weeks 1 to 7
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Analyse and evaluate musical theory in conventional Western European practice
- Analyse and apply musical theory and practice through both notated and performed media
Aural Test
Due: Week 11
Weighting: 20%
Groupwork/Individual:
Short extension 3: No
AI Approach:
Students will undertake regular in-class activities designed to improve their aural understanding of music. These activities will comprise listening tasks. Towards the end of the semester (Week 11) students will be given an Aural Test in relation to the tasks and activities practiced throughout the semester. The Test will consist of students listening to short musical fragments (such as scales, chords, short melodies etc) played on a piano, and will be asked to identify particular aspects of the given fragments, in writing and/or in musical notation.
Marking Criteria
- Accuracy of your answers
- This assessment will examine students in ALL the AURAL LISTENING material covered in this unit in weeks 3 to 11.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Analyse and evaluate musical theory in conventional Western European practice
- Identify and interpret melodic, harmonic and rhythmic structures in music
- Analyse and apply musical theory and practice through both notated and performed media
Creative Project and Paper
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 50%
Groupwork/Individual:
Short extension 3: No
AI Approach:
All students will complete a final Creative Project, for submission at the end of the semester (Week 13).
Possibilities for your project are diverse in scope. Projects may involve musical performance, composition, recording and/or analysis of a particular musical work. Performances may be performed either individually, or as part of an ensemble (and should be submitted in recorded form). Compositions should be submitted in score (which may encompass various forms of notation and/or instructions), and may also be accompanied by a recorded version. You may design a project that you think falls into none of these categories, in which case you should discuss your ideas with your Unit Convenor.
Whichever form your project takes, the outcome should demonstrate ways in which you have explored new musical forms and/or sounds. The project outcome should involve theoretical/aural ideas learned in class and may also move into new areas of musical experimentation. Whichever form your project takes, your submission should include a written reflective paper (c.600 words) that explains the nature of your project, how you have completed it, and how the outcome reflects what you have learnt through the unit.
Submission: Please submit all relevant material items (discs, USBs etc) in a single sealed folder or envelope, to avoid separation. Please write your name on everything. Please submit your reflective paper through the appropriate portal on iLearn, as either a pdf or Word document.
Marking Criteria
·Creativity in development of musical ideas and structures
- Creativity in application of musical elements studied in this unit
- Clear articulation of what you have learnt in the course of the unit
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Analyse and apply musical theory and practice through both notated and performed media
- Evaluate and apply theoretical structures to their own creative practice in music
- Critique and summarise the creative practices in musical performance of themselves and their peers
Delivery and Resources
Delivery: Day
Online Presence:
This unit has an online presence. Login is via: https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/
Students are required to have regular access to a computer and the internet. Mobile devices alone are not sufficient.
It is your responsibility to make sure you receive all communications posted on iLearn. Whenever a forum post is made, or any private communication is sent to you through iLearn, you will received notification of that via an email to your @students.mq.edu.au email address – unless you have them turned off in your personal iLearn settings. If you do that, then you must check iLearn regularly for posts. If you don’t check your student email, then please make sure that emails sent there are forwarded to your preferred email address. The bottom line is that your unit convenor must be able to presume that you have received all communication sent through iLearn, and your failure to check it is not considered an excuse for not having important information.
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For student quick guides on the use of iLearn go to: http://mq.edu.au/iLearn/student_info/guides.htm
This unit does not use Echo360, as classes are practical and interactive. These qualities do not translate through the detached media.
Required and recommended resources
- The set text for this unit is: Fitzgerald, J. (1999). Popular music theory & musicianship. East Lismore, NSW: Hazelmount.
- Other texts are available through the Library e-Reserve
- Students should bring their own music manuscript paper
- Supplementary teaching material is available through the unit's iLearn website.
Unit Schedule
Week 1 – Monday August 4th, 2014
Introduction to unit.
Week 2 –
Fundamentals of music theory and notation. A very brief history of Western music.
Required Reading: Fitzgerald (1999), Chapters 3 & 5.
Week 3 –
Rhythmic values and time signatures
Required Reading: Fitzgerald (1999), Chapters 1 & 4; Lewis (2012), extract.
Week 4 –
Scales, modes and key signatures.
Required Reading: Fitzgerald (1999), Chapters 2 & 5.
Week 5 –
Intervals, triads and inversions.
Required Reading: Fitzgerald (1999), Chapters 3 & 6.
Week 6 –
Simple chord progressions. Chord extensions.
Required Reading: Fitzgerald (1999), Chapter 6.
Week 7 –
Assessment Task 3 (Progress Report) presented today
Mid-semester break
Week 8 –
Test
Week 9 –
Compound time and irregular metre
Required Reading: Fitzgerald (1999), Chapter 7.
Week 10 –
The bass line and formal patterns.
Required Reading: Fitzgerald (1999), Chapters 8 & 9.
Week 11 –
Principles of harmonic analysis 1.
Required Reading: Fitzgerald (1999), Chapters 8 & 9.
Week 12 –
Principles of harmonic analysis 2.
Required Reading: Fitzgerald (1999), Chapters 8 & 9.
Week 13 –
Writing the full score
(Creative Project) due today
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Macquarie University policies and procedures are accessible from Policy Central. Students should be aware of the following policies in particular with regard to Learning and Teaching:
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Assessment Policy http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/assessment/policy.html
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Disruption to Studies Policy http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/disruption_studies/policy.html The Disruption to Studies Policy is effective from March 3 2014 and replaces the Special Consideration Policy.
In addition, a number of other policies can be found in the Learning and Teaching Category of Policy Central.
Student Code of Conduct
Macquarie University students have a responsibility to be familiar with the Student Code of Conduct: https://students.mq.edu.au/support/student_conduct/
Results
Results shown in iLearn, or released directly by your Unit Convenor, are not confirmed as they are subject to final approval by the University. Once approved, final results will be sent to your student email address and will be made available in eStudent. For more information visit ask.mq.edu.au.
Additional information
MMCCS Session Re-mark Application http://www.mq.edu.au/pubstatic/public/download/?id=167914
Information is correct at the time of publication
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Graduate Capabilities
Creative and Innovative
Our graduates will also be capable of creative thinking and of creating knowledge. They will be imaginative and open to experience and capable of innovation at work and in the community. We want them to be engaged in applying their critical, creative thinking.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Analyse and apply musical theory and practice through both notated and performed media
- Evaluate and apply theoretical structures to their own creative practice in music
- Critique and summarise the creative practices in musical performance of themselves and their peers
Assessment task
- Creative Project and Paper
Capable of Professional and Personal Judgement and Initiative
We want our graduates to have emotional intelligence and sound interpersonal skills and to demonstrate discernment and common sense in their professional and personal judgement. They will exercise initiative as needed. They will be capable of risk assessment, and be able to handle ambiguity and complexity, enabling them to be adaptable in diverse and changing environments.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Analyse and evaluate musical theory in conventional Western European practice
- Identify and interpret melodic, harmonic and rhythmic structures in music
- Analyse and apply musical theory and practice through both notated and performed media
- Evaluate and apply theoretical structures to their own creative practice in music
- Critique and summarise the creative practices in musical performance of themselves and their peers
Assessment task
- Creative Project and Paper
Discipline Specific Knowledge and Skills
Our graduates will take with them the intellectual development, depth and breadth of knowledge, scholarly understanding, and specific subject content in their chosen fields to make them competent and confident in their subject or profession. They will be able to demonstrate, where relevant, professional technical competence and meet professional standards. They will be able to articulate the structure of knowledge of their discipline, be able to adapt discipline-specific knowledge to novel situations, and be able to contribute from their discipline to inter-disciplinary solutions to problems.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Analyse and evaluate musical theory in conventional Western European practice
- Identify and interpret melodic, harmonic and rhythmic structures in music
- Analyse and apply musical theory and practice through both notated and performed media
- Evaluate and apply theoretical structures to their own creative practice in music
- Critique and summarise the creative practices in musical performance of themselves and their peers
Assessment tasks
- Theory Test
- Aural Test
- Creative Project and Paper
Critical, Analytical and Integrative Thinking
We want our graduates to be capable of reasoning, questioning and analysing, and to integrate and synthesise learning and knowledge from a range of sources and environments; to be able to critique constraints, assumptions and limitations; to be able to think independently and systemically in relation to scholarly activity, in the workplace, and in the world. We want them to have a level of scientific and information technology literacy.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Analyse and evaluate musical theory in conventional Western European practice
- Identify and interpret melodic, harmonic and rhythmic structures in music
- Analyse and apply musical theory and practice through both notated and performed media
- Evaluate and apply theoretical structures to their own creative practice in music
- Critique and summarise the creative practices in musical performance of themselves and their peers
Assessment tasks
- Theory Test
- Aural Test
- Creative Project and Paper
Problem Solving and Research Capability
Our graduates should be capable of researching; of analysing, and interpreting and assessing data and information in various forms; of drawing connections across fields of knowledge; and they should be able to relate their knowledge to complex situations at work or in the world, in order to diagnose and solve problems. We want them to have the confidence to take the initiative in doing so, within an awareness of their own limitations.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Identify and interpret melodic, harmonic and rhythmic structures in music
- Evaluate and apply theoretical structures to their own creative practice in music
Assessment tasks
- Theory Test
- Creative Project and Paper
Effective Communication
We want to develop in our students the ability to communicate and convey their views in forms effective with different audiences. We want our graduates to take with them the capability to read, listen, question, gather and evaluate information resources in a variety of formats, assess, write clearly, speak effectively, and to use visual communication and communication technologies as appropriate.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Learning outcomes
- Analyse and apply musical theory and practice through both notated and performed media
- Critique and summarise the creative practices in musical performance of themselves and their peers
Required Reading
Fitzgerald, J. (1999). Popular music theory & musicianship. East Lismore, NSW: Hazelmount.
Lewis, T. (2012). Studies In Musical Rhythm (draft text), extract for MUS325.
Powell, D. (2013). Four Part Harmony. Volume 1. (www.vancouvermusictheory.com) Unit 2, pp.13-20.