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HU Credits:
6
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Musicology
Semester:
Yearly
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Roee Ben Sira
Coordinator Office Hours:
By appointment
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Roee Bensira
Course/Module description:
In this course we will learn the principles of tonal music, while focusing on the analysis of European musical works from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The course will be supported by a practice of keyboard harmony and ear training.
Course/Module aims:
The aims of this course are the acquisition of a theoretical understanding of harmonic syntax and the development of awareness and sensitivity to the horizontal and vertical aspects of tonal music.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
At the end of the course, students will be able to analyze works from the European tonal music literature. They will be able to identify harmonic progressions within a complex musical texture as well as write harmonic progressions with voice leading.
Attendance requirements(%):
100%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lecture accompanied by live piano examples, active listening to music, in-class writing assignments, writing and reading assignments as homework.
Course/Module Content:
Tonality - the major and the minor scales, intervals, the physics of sound, diatonic chords, procedures of four-part writing (voice leading), tension and release in musical context, species counterpoint, basso continuo, harmonic cadences, contrapuntal expansions, harmonic progressions using all scale degrees, melodic and rhythmic figurations.
Required Reading:
Aldwell, Edward and Carl Schachter, Harmony and Voice Leading, 2nd ed., Hartcourt Brace Jovanovich Collage Publishers, 1989.
Additional Reading Material:
Aldwell, Edward and Carl Schachter., Workbook: Harmony and Voice Leading, 3rd ed., Schrimer, 2003.
Salzer, Felix and Carl Schachter, Counterpoint in Composition, New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
Laitz, G. Steven, The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Theory, Analysis and Listening, 4th ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2016
Grading Scheme :
Written / Oral / Practical Exam 30 %
Active Participation / Team Assignment 20 %
Submission assignments during the semester: Exercises / Essays / Audits / Reports / Forum / Simulation / others 50 %
Additional information:
Students must take the tutorial - keyboard harmony and ear training
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