Course Details
Course Information Package
| Course Unit Title | MUSIC I - THEORY OF MUSIC | ||||||||
| Course Unit Code | MUS100P | ||||||||
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| Number of ECTS credits allocated | 4 | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||
| Prerequisites | NONE | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||
| Recommended optional program components | Θεοδωράκη, Μάρω. (2011). Μουσικοκινητικά παιχνίδια με άξονα τα συναισθήματα. Αθήνα: Διάπλαση. Χειμαριού-Ορφανού, Μαρία. (2010). Χρωματιστή θεωρία της μουσικής. Αθήνα: Φ. Νάκας. | ||||||||
| Course Contents | - Basic music theory: G clef, names and values of the notes, rests, bars, bar-lines, time signatures, simple and compound time, rests, C major scale, anacrusis, melodic intervals, tone-semitone, accidentals, key signatures. - Basic music elements: Timbre, pitch, intensity, duration, time-tempo, pulse, AB and ABA form, rondo, canon. - Means of musical expression: Voice, body -types of movements and parallel characteristics with movement-, musical instruments/Orff instruments, preparation for creative expression, incentives for creative expression, use of the means in music education, combination of the means. - Song orchestration and dramatization: Song orchestration using body percussion. Song dramatization using imagination, movement skills and objects. - Folk Music/Dances and Program music: Aural recognition of folk music/ dances of various countries. Singing, rhythmic response and simple dance movements. Kinetic interpretation of small scenes of various program music works, like ‘The Peter and the Wolf’, ‘The Carnival of the animals’, ‘The Swan Lake’, ‘The Nutcracker’ etc. - Musical games: educational value of musical games, categories of musical games, examples of musical games from each category, educator’s role in the conduct of musical games. - Child development and music activities: Child’s physical, mental, emotional and social development and parallel music activities. - Performance: Performance of rhythmic phrases with percussion instruments and children’s songs with voice, glockenspiels, xylophones, electronic keyboards and recorders. | ||||||||
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| Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The students are taught via lectures, discussions, hearing of musical excerpts, watching of videos relevant to the music topics of the course, performance and presentations of music instruction. The lectures comprise the theoretical part of the lesson and during them the students keep notes. For the deeper comprehension of the various musical terms and concepts used in lessons, examples are offered through musical hearings and videos. Emphasis is given to the implementation by students -with movements, singing, and use of percussion instruments and improvisation/creation- of examples related to the theoretical part of the lessons. The exercise of the students’ skills in the interpretation of songs with their voice and musical instruments takes place in groups and it is expected that their exercise continues during their personal time as well. During the exercise personal assistance is offered by the instructor to students in need. The examination of students in the interpretation of songs takes place individually. The presentations of music instruction are conducted in small groups (2-3 persons) of students. In the meetings preceded the presentations, the students and the instructor examine given activities and lesson plans, discuss about the goals, activities and materials that each group is expected to use and an exchange of views takes place between each group and the instructor. At the end of each presentation a self-assessment by the group conducted the presentation and suggestions for improvement by the rest groups and the instructor takes place. | ||||||||
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| Language of instruction | Greek | ||||||||
| Work placement(s) | NO | ||||||||
