Aural Studies 2

This subject is not offered in 2014.

120 hours

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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Building on skills acquired in Aural Studies 1, students will prepare singing and rhythm tasks of greater complexity, and work with transcription tasks from recordings involving professional-level works of moderate complexity including polyphony. Aural methods will be examined in greater detail, including implications in current research in relation to traditional methods such as Kodaly, Orff, Dalcroze, Suzuki and Yamaha.

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• demonstrate a higher skill level in presenting Solfege and rhythm examples of increased complexity
• demonstrate the capacity for aural analysis of works at a professional level. Students will develop a critical perspective on the various methods, and an ability to present materials from these in a tutorial situation
• notate music aurally, including chord symbols

Viva voce tests—prepared and unprepared solfege and rhythm examples, tested throughout the year (40%); one 10-minute conducting presentation of a Bach chorale or similar (20%), transcription tasks of melody, countermelody, rhythm, chord progression and bass lines, due throughout the year (30%); attendance and participation in lectures and tutorials (10%).

A reading pack will be available for purchase from the Melbourne University Bookshop before the commencement of the semester.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On completion of this subject, students should have developed:

• further aural skills to an appropriate level for the theoretical and performance requirements of the Bachelor of Music.

Students will be allocated to tutorial by the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Students should purchase prescribed texts on the basis of this tutorial allocation.