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Music Language 2: Chromaticism & Beyond (MUSI20061)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Southbank) and Online
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Summer Term
Ian Godfrey: ibg@unimelb.edu.au
Semester 2
Linda Kouvaras: lindaik@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
Availability | Summer Term - Online Semester 2 - On Campus |
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Building on the knowledge acquired in Music Language 1, Music Language 2 continues with a survey of chromatic harmony, select thematic and contrapuntal devices, and form, up to the beginnings of the dissolution of functional harmony in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Students will be expected to demonstrate their understanding of voice leading and harmonic function through regular assignments which will include analysis, chord construction, the writing of two-part contrapuntal textures and four-part chromatic harmonic textures (Bach-style chorales).
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- identify, analyse, and discuss chromatic harmonic structures including harmonic progressions, functions, and modulations as well as the chromatic movement in individual voices;
- identify and analyse contrapuntal and thematic structures;
- identify, analyse, and discuss common formal structures;
- compose material based on a variety of harmonic, thematic or contrapuntal devices;
- develop a wide-ranging harmonic, thematic, and structural vocabulary which can be used in a variety of compositional idioms.
Generic skills
On completion of this subject, students should have developed:
- analytical skills;
- skills in evaluative thinking, and in the application of theoretical criteria to practical outcomes.
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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MUSI10023 | Music Language 1: the Diatonic World |
Summer Term (Online)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
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12.5 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Five written assignments comprising analytical and compositional tasks (10% each)
| Throughout the teaching period | 50% |
50-minute in-class listening test
| End of the teaching period | 15% |
90-minute written examination
| During the examination period | 25% |
Participation in tutorial/lecture discussion
| Throughout the teaching period | 10% |
Hurdle requirement: Students must attend a minimum of 80% of all scheduled classes. | N/A | |
Hurdle requirement: Students must submit all elements of assessment to be eligible for a pass in this subject. For the purposes of meeting this hurdle requirement, each submitted assessment must be complete and constitute a genuine attempt to address the requirements of the task. Submitting only part of an assessment (e.g. only the title page) or an assessment on an irrelevant topic will not meet this hurdle requirement. | N/A |
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Dates & times
- Summer Term - Online
Coordinator Ian Godfrey Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 36 hours, comprising 4-hours of lectures and 2-hours of tutorials per week. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 2 January 2024 to 16 February 2024 Last self-enrol date 11 January 2024 Census date 19 January 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 9 February 2024 Assessment period ends 8 March 2024 Summer Term contact information
Ian Godfrey: ibg@unimelb.edu.au
- Semester 2 - On Campus
Coordinator Linda Kouvaras Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 36 hours, comprising two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024 Semester 2 contact information
Linda Kouvaras: lindaik@unimelb.edu.au
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Last updated: 22 March 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Steven Laitz, The Complete Musician (4th Edition), Oxford University Press, 2015
Thomas Benjamin, The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint, NY: Routledge, 2003.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Graduate Diploma in Music Course Bachelor of Music Course Diploma in Music Major Performance Major Musicology & Ethnomusicology Major Composition Major Music Studies Major Performance (ANAM) - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Environments
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Science
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 22 March 2024