Study Guide

Objective

After completing the course, the student · can sing and note free tonal and modal polyphonic music more demanding than the B level
- can sing single-tone and polyphonic music containing c-clefs ·
- can perform and write down polyrhythmic music
- shows a personal artistic view when interpreting music

Content

Solfege B is an optional study course that a student can complete in any year of study, after having demonstrated that he/she possess the knowledge and skills required at C level.
The study course includes
· singing and notation of free tonal music containing intervals from unison to augmented fourth/diminished fifth and symmetric scales
- writing down/ notation polyphonic western music (3 or 4 voices)
-identification and naming the chords of a modulating chord sequence based on auditory perception
- singing one-voiced and polyphonic music with C-clefs
- performing music containing changing timesignatures and different lengths of the beat as well as exceptional divisions of the rhytmic measure

Materials

free tonal music

Teaching methods

face to face teaching, distance teaching and independent working

Exam schedules

-written exams during the face to face lessons in April
- oral exams in the beginning of May

Content scheduling

Content:
-singing and notating symmetrical scales and unison free tonal music including small intervals
-identification the chords of a modulating chord period based on the hearing observation
-singing and notating unison and polyphonic tonal and modal music as well as polyphonic music of the 1900's
- singing unison or polyphonic music including C-clefs
- presenting and notating rhythms including changing timesignatures and beats with changing divisions as well as polyrhythm

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral items:
prima vista tasks:
-singing of a unison free tonal melody
-singing of a melody including C-clefs
-presenting of the rhythm including changing timesignatures

Written items:
-notating of a unison free tonal melody and identification of accompaniment chords
-notating of a melody in three voices and identification of chords
-notating a rhythm including changing timesignatures