Course: Ear Training

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Course title Ear Training
Course code KMU/SAK
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Křupková Lenka, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Pastirčák Marcel, Mgr. DiS.
Course content
1. Cadences in Major and Minor Keys - Primary Scale Degrees 2. Cadences in Major and Minor Keys - Secondary Scale Degrees 3. Seventh Chords, Ninth Chords, and Alterations 4. Chord Symbols, Chord Inversions, and Polychords 5. Seventh Chords with Major and Minor Sevenths 6. Diminished and Half-Diminished Seventh Chords 7. Ninth Chords with Major and Minor Ninths 8. Seventh Chords with Altered Fifths 9. Analysis of Rhythmic Patterns 10. Whole-Tone, Chromatic, and Pentatonic Scales 11. Analysis of a Popular Music Composition and Its Transcription into Musical Notation 12. Analysis of a Classical Music Composition and Its Transcription into Musical Notation

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
  • Attendace - 5 hours per semester
  • Homework for Teaching - 60 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Exam - 60 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The Ear Training course is a part of the group of compositional disciplines. Attention will be paid to practical training of musical skills and analysis of the score. Stress is paid at the complex structures in intervalic and chords issues and ear comprehensing of typical chord progressions within functional harmony.
Acquired knowledge: The student identifies concrete melodies, intervals, scales, and chords with the use of the relative hearing. The student identifies the most common chord connections or harmonic functions with the use of hearing. Acquired skills: The student uses analytical hearing when listening to music. Acquired qualifications: The student analyses played music, and identify concrete phenomena and formations in it with the use of their hearing. The student transcribes short melodies and common chord connections.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of music theory

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam

Recommended literature
  • Daniel, L. (1980). Intonační cvičení - Chromatika.. Praha.
  • Dobbins, Bill. Jazz arranging and composing: a linear approach. Rottenburg. 1986.
  • Doležil, Metod:. (1974). Intonace a elementární rytmus. Praha.
  • JANEČEK, Karel. Harmonie rozborem. Praha. 1982.
  • Kofroň, Jaroslav. Učebnice intonace a rytmu. Praha. 1990.
  • Svoboda, Milan. Praktická jazzová harmonie. Netolice. 2014.
  • Šolc, Milan. Tajemství akordových značek. Praha. 1979.
  • Velebný, Karel. Jazzová praktika 2. Praha. 1978.


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