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Course Title: |
EAR TRAINING DICTATION AND SOLFEGE |
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Course Code: |
MUZ1301 |
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Type of Course: |
Compulsory |
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Level of Course: |
First Cycle |
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Year of Study: |
1 |
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Semester: |
1 |
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ECTS Credits Allocated: |
6 |
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Theoretical (hour/week): |
2 |
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Practice (hour/week) : |
2 |
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Laboratory (hour/week) : |
0 |
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Prerequisites: |
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Recommended optional programme components: |
None |
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Language: |
Turkish |
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Mode of Delivery: |
Face to face |
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Course Coordinator: |
Prof. Dr. RASİM EROL DEMİRBATIR |
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Course Lecturers: |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Hatice ÇELİKTAŞ |
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Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator: |
Prof. Dr. Rasim Erol DEMİRBATIR |
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Website: |
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Objective of the Course: |
Measurement, rhythm, key concept, interval and tonality concept in music, formation of chords; basic musical terms used in musical reading and writing (auxiliary signs, expressive signs, abbreviations and ornaments, dynamic, tempo and expression terms, etc.); major and minor scales; chords in the root position; reading and writing monophonic melodies in different tones suitable for their level. |
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Contribution of the Course to Professional Development |
By understanding the relationships between sounds gaining hearing, reading and writing skills and using these skills in the Teaching Profession ability to use. |
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Learning Outcomes: |
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To be able to know the sound and the properties of sound.;
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To be able to know the basic elements of notation and to transcribe sounds.;;
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One-line octave. To be able to read and write to intervals between c1- g2. (c1- e1; c1- g1; c1- c2; c1- e2; c1- g2). ;;
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To be able to name the intervals and their inversions. To be able to form, hear and write to the intervals of perfect, major, minor, diminished, augmented.;;
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To be able to form, sing and write to the major, minor, diminished, augmented triads and their inversions. ;
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To be able to know and group the measures as simple, compound and mixed. To be able to write and sing with simple measures. ;;
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To be able to recognize, read, write and sing the major and minor scales.;
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Tonality in music. To be able to know the diatonic, chromatic and enharmonic scales and their degrees and properties. ;
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To be able to improve the habit of sight-reading. To be able to analyze the simple melodies in terms of music forms and write to similar melodies.;
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To be able to analyze the musical pieces in terms of tonal, rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, dynamic, tempo and expression.;
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Theoretical |
Practical |
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Course objectives, content and resources. What is musical sound? Its properties: Frequency/pitch, loudness/amplitude, timbre and duration. The elements of musical notation: Note, staff/stave, clef, etc… |
Preliminary assessment to determine readiness levels. |
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Half, quarter, eight note and rest values. Simple measures. Two beat simple measure and its practices. |
Solfege, dictation and rhythmic reading. |
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Whole tone and semitone. Forming and singing exercises with intervals. Describing and classification of intervals: Perfect, major, minor, augmented and diminished intervals. Diatonic, chromatic and enharmonic scales. |
Exercises about intervals and scales forming. Solfege and rhythmic reading. |
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Consonance and dissonance intervals. Reading, writing and singing exercises on C major and a minor scales and chord progressions. Three beat simple measure. |
Interval forming, singing and writing exercises. |
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What is chord? Major, minor, diminished and augmented triads and their inversions. Four beats simpe measure. |
Chord forming, singing and writing exercises. Dictation and solfege. |
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Exercises about triads. Primary triads and cadences in a tonality. |
Reading, writing and singing exercises on C major and a minor scales and chord progressions. |
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Music terminology (tempo and rhythm, dynamics, expressions, ornaments and abbreviations, etc.). |
Exercises about sight-reading. Exercises about music terminology and homework. |
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G major and e minor scales and tonalities. |
Reading, writing and singing exercises on G major and e minor scales and chord progressions. Solfege, dictation and rhythmic reading. |
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A simple measure: 3/8 and 3/4. Basic rules about the notations. |
Reading exercises about 3/8 and 3/4 measure. Practices about musical notation. Solfege, dictation and rhythmic reading. |
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Syncopation. Rhythm exercises and rhythmic analysis. |
Reading and writing exercises with syncopation. Solfege, dictation and rhythmic reading. |
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F major and d minor scales and tonalities. |
Reading, writing and singing exercises on F major and d minor scales and chord progressions. |
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Practices about improving ear training. |
Solfege, dictation and rhythmic reading. |
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Composing with the basic musical form rules. |
Composing exercises.
Mid-Term Exam |
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Analysing some music pieces with their dynamics in terms of tonal, rhythmic and harmonic. |
Exercises and homework about musical analysing. An overview and preparation to the final exam. |
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Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials: |
• GHEZZO, Marta Arkossy. Solfege, Ear Training, Rhytm, Dictation and Music Theory, The University of Alabama Press, Alabama 1980
• FONTAINE, Fernard. Traite Pratique du Rhytme Mesure, Ed. Henry Lemoine, Paris 1955
• KAROLYI, Otto. Müziğe Giriş, Pan Yayıncılık, İstanbul 1999.
• HACIEV, Paraşkev. Temel Müzik Teorisi, Pan Yayınları, İstanbul, 2011.
• LAVIGNAC, Albert. Solfege Des Solfeges 1A, 1B.
• GAZİMİHAL, Mahmut Ragıp. Musiki Sözlüğü, Milli Eğitim Yayınları, 1961
• SAY, Ahmet. Müzik Sözlüğü, Müzik Ansiklopedisi Yayınları, Ankara 2002
• SAYGUN,A.Adnan. Toplu Solfej I, Devlet Konservatuarı Yayınları, Milli Eğitim Basımevi, İstanbul 1967 |
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Assesment |
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