Solfege B (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

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

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

- one-voiced and polyphonic, tonal and free-tonal music,
- music written with different clefs/ keys
Edlund; Modus novus
Säveltapailu B; S. Salmiala

Teaching methods

- participation in face to face teaching and distance teaching as well as independent work

Exam schedules

Written exams of the course are conducted in a manner agreed with the teacher during the April lessons. Oral exam sections are conducted in early May.

Student workload

- one-voiced free-tonal music writing/ notating and singing tasks
- polyphonic tonal music writing/ notating and singing tasks
- performance by singing one-voiced and polyphonic music containing C-clefs
- reading and notating/ writing down a rhythm task containing changing timesignatures and different lengths of the beats as well as exceptional breakdowns of the beats

Further information

Registration by e-mail
soili.lehtinen@turkuamk.fi

teaching on Wednesdays in zoom at 9.00-10.30
beginning 13.9.2023
https://turkuamk.zoom.us/j/67436751812
Meeting ID: 674 3675 1812