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Principles of music - course description

General information
Course name Principles of music
Course ID 03.2-WA-P-ZaMuz-S18
Faculty Faculty of Arts
Field of study WA - oferta ERASMUS / Humanities and Arts, Music
Education profile -
Level of studies First-cycle Erasmus programme
Beginning semester winter term 2018/2019
Course information
Semester 2
ECTS credits to win 3
Course type obligatory
Teaching language polish
Author of syllabus
Classes forms
The class form Hours per semester (full-time) Hours per week (full-time) Hours per semester (part-time) Hours per week (part-time) Form of assignment
Class 15 1 - - Credit

Aim of the course

Acquiring the basic knowledge and skills concerning the music theory as necessary tools for further music education and artistic activity. 

Prerequisites

A pass for the entrance examinations for the first year of Music Education Studies. 

Scope

Harmonic series. Basic elements of the music notation, development of the music notation, stave, clefs, division of the sound material in octaves, sharps and flats. Rhythmic symbols, extended notes and rests, irregular division of note values. Time signature and its types. Grouping of note values in simple and compound time signatures. Rewriting bars. Syncopation, polyrhythm, polymeter, anacrusis, fermata, caesura. The tempered system: scale, key, intervals and their inversions, building intervals. The major and minor scales and their modes, the circle of fifths, the relations between keys. Consonance and dissonance and its resolution. Diatonic, chromatic, enharmony and alteration. Chromatic and diatonic semitone. Construction of triads. Chords: major, minor, diminished, augmented, seventh chord, ninth chord. Other chord types. Chord positions and inversions. Chord symbols. Three main chords, cadences. Other scales than the major and the minor scale: pentatonic scales, Ancient Greek Scales, medieval scales, Gypsy scale, Acoustic scale, whole tone scale, chromatic scale, blues scale,symmetrical scales 1- 1⁄2 and 1⁄2-1, Locrian scale. Articulation. Shortcuts in classical music, pop and jazz. Agogics. Performance marks. Dynamics. Embellishments. Elements of a music work. The basic terms in English. 

Teaching methods

- Lecture, lecture and conversation, lecture and multimedia presentation. - Independent exercises.
- Discussion. 

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description Outcome symbols Methods of verification The class form

Assignment conditions

Form of receiving a credit concerning the knowledge and skills - exam. 

Conditions of receiving a credit: attendance in lecture and class. The summary grade consists of grades received for tests (exercises) and for the written examination (minimum 51% correct answers = grade 3,0). 

The learning outcomes concerning the knowledge and skills (exercises) are being verified throughout the entire semester in form of written tests, open questions, filling the gaps in music and graphic notation (minimum 51% correct answers = grade 3,0). 

Recommended reading

F. Wesołowski: Zasady muzyki, PWM 1980 i późn. 

Further reading

J. Viera – Elementy jazzu, PWM, 1978
Z. Lissa: Zarys nauki o muzyce, PWM, 1966 i późn.
J. Lasocki: Podstawowe wiadomości z nauki o muzyce, PWM, 1982.
M. Gniazdowski: Ćwiczenia w grupowaniu wartości rytmicznych, wyd. WSP, 1989 

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