BA Aural Skills (Ear Training and Solfeggio)

Course title: Ear training 1

Osiris course code: KC-TH-GTSP1

Course content: Group lesson per section, in conjunction with Solfeggio 1, where students learn to

develop their musical imagery and inner hearing. Students learn to understand and

transcribe music from listening to live or recorded music. Students have to be able to

play or sing fragments of music by ear after the fragment has been played to them.

They also have to transpose or improvise on a given fragment. The lessons in Ear

training are combined with the Solfeggio 1 lessons.

Objectives: At the end of this course, the student:

is able to recognize, understand, transcribe and play by ear and/or transpose

aspects of music related to pitch (melody and harmony), rhythm and musical

form;

is able to integrate practical and theoretical skills;

is able to communicate about what he perceives in a piece of music.

Type of course: Compulsory

Level: Bachelor 1

Prerequisites: -

Teachers: Theory teachers

Credit points: 2

Literature: Material assigned by teacher; MusicWeb

Work forms: Group lessons and individual study

Assessment: Two written exams with practical assignments.

Compulsory attendance: 80%

The 4 EC credits for Ear training/ Solfeggio 1 are obtained if:

- an average score of a minimum 5.5 is obtained for the Ear training 1 and the

Solfeggio class 1 exam;

- a score of 5 minimum is obtained for the Ear training 1 and the Solfeggio 1 exam.

Type of grading: Numeric results

Language: Dutch or English

Schedule: 36 lessons in 2 semesters

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Information: Coordinator Theory: Suzanne Konings, [email protected]

Course title: Ear training 2


Course content: Please see Ear training 1. Ear training 2 is sequel to the training of skills of Ear

training 1. Students can process musical information through listening more quickly

and are able to deal with more complex music, such as polyphony and a more

extensive harmonic and rhythmical complex content. The lessons in Ear training 2 are

combined with the Solfeggio 2 lessons.


is able to recognize, transcribe, play by ear and/or transpose aspects of more

complex music in the field of pitch (melody and harmony), rhythm and musical

form;

is able to integrate practical and theoretical skills;

is able to independently make transcriptions of recordings of performed music

(so not only of music played on the piano);

is able to communicate about what he perceives in music.


Level: Bachelor 2

Prerequisites: Ear training 1


Credit points: 2

Literature: Material assigned by teacher; MusicWeb


Contact time per week: 50 minutes

Assessment: Two written exams with practical assignments.



- an average score of a minimum 5.5. is obtained for the Ear training 2 and Solfeggio

2 exams;

- a score of 5 minimum is obtained for both the Ear training 2 and the Solfeggio 2

exam.




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Course title: Solfeggio 1


Course content: Group lesson per section where students learn to develop a good representation

(aural understanding) of (concepts in) notated music. The student learns to sing

accompanied and unaccompanied melodies/parts a prima vista; solo and in

polyphonic settings. The first year focuses on tonal and modal, pentatonic and

diatonic (fragments of) music. The lessons in Solfeggio 1 are offered in combination

with Ear training 1.


is able to aurally envisage notated (mainly diatonic) music, without having to use

an instrument;

is able to aurally envisage the relationship to another musical part, and ascertain

whether a performance is in accordance with its notation;

is able to implement simple strategies that support the musical imagination

(inner hearing).


Level: Bachelor

Prerequisites: -

Teachers: Niels van Hoorn

Credit points: 2

Literature: Berkowitz, A new approach to sight singing; Ottman, Music for sight singing

Material assigned by teacher



Assessment: Two practical exams, in which the elements as described under Objectives are

tested.



- an average score of a minimum 5.5 is obtained for the Ear training 1 exam and the

Solfeggio 1 exam

- a score of 5 minimum is obtained for Ear training 1 and the Solfeggio 1 exam




Time:

Venue:


Course title: Solfeggio 2


Course content: This course is a sequel to Solfeggio 1. Group lesson per section where the student

learns to develop a good representation (aural understanding) of (concepts in)

notated music. The student learns to sing accompanied and unaccompanied

melodies/parts a prima vista, solo and in a polyphonic setting. The repertoire has a

more complex melodic content, which strongly appeals to the harmonic

understanding. The lessons in Solfeggio 2 are combined with the lessons in Ear

training 2.


is able to aurally envisage notated (diatonic and chromatic) music from different

style periods, without having to use an instrument;

is able to aurally envisage the relationship to another musical part in more

complex settings, and ascertain whether a performance is in accordance with its

notation;

is able to implement more complex strategies that support the musical

imagination (inner hearing).


Level: Bachelor 2

Prerequisites: Solfeggio 1


Credit points: 2

Literature: Berkowitz, A new approach to sight singing; Ottoman, Music for sight singing.

Materials handed out by the teacher.



Assessment: Practical exam



- an average score of a minimum 5.5. is obtained for the Ear training 2 exam and the

Solfeggio exam 2

- a score of 5 minimum is obtained for Ear training 2 and the Solfeggio 2 exam




Time:

Venue:


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BA Aural Skills (Ear Training and Solfeggio)