Curricula
Description
| MM00EC02 | Historical and Structural Awareness of Music: African-American Music (3 cr) |
| Prerequisites | Not applicable |
| Objectives | After completing the course, I understand the phenomena that influenced the emergence of African-American music and I'm able to identify different African and African-American early musical styles. I can identify aurally the most important styles of African-American music from the 1800s to the 1920s, as well as the most important composers and performers. I get acquainted with the analysis of formal structures and the basics of functional harmony analysis, observe their connection rhythm music songs, and begin to understand their significance for a deeper understanding of music. I've learned the chord types, repeating my knowledge of the triads and deepening my knowledge of seventh chords. 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 lectures on the history of music, which help the student to internalize and auditorily identify the musical, social, and historical conditions and phenomena that influenced the emergence of African-American musical styles. The theory section discusses, among other things, the form analysis of rhythm music, chords and functional harmony, which is linked to studies in the history of music. The course also includes listening tasks (e.g. singing and writing a melody, reading rhythms and dictates, and recognizing chords). Ear Training topics: Basic behavioral traits of diatonic harmony in the context of popular music. Inversions and positions of triads. Utilizing scale degrees for musical perception. The blues tonality and blues melodies. Tertiary four-note chords. 16th note based rhythms and the basicas of swung 8th notes. |
| 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 need to be compensated by additional homework. Other ways of completing the course must always be negotiated 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. |
| Assessment Frameworks | Not applicable |
| Further Information | Not applicable |
| Responsible persons | Not applicable |
| Links | Not applicable |
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- 19.08.2024 - 27.10.2024 (MM00EC02-3001 | MPE23SPPJ)
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