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

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

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

Teaching in group on Mondays at 2-3.30pm, room A226. Starts on 9th of Sept.

Further information

Siiri Anttonen
siiri.anttonen@turunkonservatorio.fi

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

The student demonstrates control over the different content areas of the course using the following written and oral displays:
-singing and notating an unison free tonal melody and identificating the accompaniment chords of it
-singing of a melody including C-clefs
-presenting and notating/ writing down the rhythm including changing timesignatures and different lengths of the beats