Curricula
Description
| MM00EC05 | Historical and Structural Awareness of Music: Pop- and Rock Music (3 cr) |
| Prerequisites | Not applicable |
| Objectives | After completing the course, I understand the characteristics of different pop/rock styles, as well as the social conditions and musical influences that influenced their creation. I can use my hearing to identify the pop/rock styles used in the course, as well as the performers and songs. I have become familiar with modal improvisation and horizontal harmony in both jazz and pop music, as well as explored extended chords. I have deepened my knowledge and experience of rhythm music through functional analysis and making my own reharmonizations. Course goals regarding Ear Training: I can perceive melody, harmony, rhythm, form and timbre in music throughout various musical styles. I can notate rhythmic, melodic and harmonic content and to reproduce rhythms and melody, while maintaining a pulse, through my voice and body. I can also add note names to a given melody in different keys. I perceive harmony and melody with the names of the notes and chord symbols, alongside the scale degrees, and the roles of the melody notes regarding the key and the chord they’re on. I am also able to improvise with my own voice inside the harmonic situations I am hearing. |
| Content | The teaching consists of audio-visual music history lectures that help the student identify different pop/rock music styles and understand their history. The theory section deals with chord expansions, modal jazz and horizontality in rhythm music, quartet and quintet harmony, and reharmonizing using modal transformational chords and organ points. The course also includes listening tasks (e.g. singing and writing a melody, reading rhythms and dictates, and recognizing chords). Ear Training topics: Expanding on the topics of the previous courses. Bebop scales and the diminished scales. Identifying and subdividing odd meters. Popular music harmonic phenomena outside of mainstream jazz. Pedal points and slash chords. Polyrhythms and exercises pertaining to them. |
| Recommended optional programme components | If necessary, the student advisor will recommend optional programme components for each student based on their individual study plan. |
| Accomplishment methods | Participation in contact teaching (history lectures, theory and solfage lessons). Absences should be compensated by additional tasks. Other ways of completing the course must always be negotiated separately with the teacher. |
| Execution methods | Not applicable |
| Materials | Not applicable |
| Literature | Not applicable |
| Evaluation Criteria | Approved/Failed |
| Evaluation Criteria |
pass/fail Assessment (pass/fail) for attending classes, doing homework and possible group work. Passed: The student demonstrates an understanding of the phenomena that influenced the emergence of African-American music, as well as completing all the given homework and group work. Ear Training completion within the same rules, and passing the Ear Training test. |
| Assessment Frameworks | Not applicable |
| Further Information | Not applicable |
| Responsible persons | Not applicable |
| Links | Not applicable |
Implementations
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- 10.03.2025 - 04.05.2025 (MM00EC05-3001 | MPE23SPPJ)
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