Patkai Christian College 1 DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC, PCC SYLLABUS. B.A. (Pass and Honours) MUS (P&H) 101. Music Theory and. Practical II. First.

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1 DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC, PCC SYLLABUS B.A. (Pass and Honours) Year Semester Course Code Course Name Marks Allotment CIA ESF Total MUS (P&H) 101 Music Theory and Practical I Theo Prac Theo Prac First = Ist MUS(H) 103 Piano and Practical I Total MUS (P&H) 102 Music Theory and Practical II Same as above 100 2nd MUS(H) 104 Piano and Practical II CA: Continuous Internal Assessment ESF: End Semester Final Credit Hours: Pass Course (3 theory + 1 practical=4) Honours Course (4 theory + 1 practical=5) Patkai Christian College 1

2 Course Code: MUS(P&H) 101 COURSE CONTENT SEMESTER I (PASS AND HONOURS) Course Title: Music Theory I Marks: 70 Unit I. A. Foundations 1. Clefs and Basic Pitch Notation. 2. Scales. 3. Key Signatures and Scale Degrees. 4. Intervals. 5. Triads. 6. The Notation of Rhythm. B. Harmony (Common Practice):The Diatonic Vocabulary 1. The Structure of Tonality. 2. Primary Triads in Root Position: Doubling, Spacing, and Voice Leading. 3. Primary Triads in First Inversion. 4. Primary Triads in Second Inversion. 5. Four-Part Vocal Writing. Course Code: MUS(PR) 101 Unit II. Practical I Marks: 30 A. Sight singing a. Pitch patterns. b. Intervals. c. Sing melodies with correct rhythm. B. Ear training a. Melodic and rhythmic dictation. C. Basic Keyboard a. Identify individual notes on the keyboard. b. Play triads in root position in all white keys. Patkai Christian College 2

3 SEMESTER I (HONOURS) Course Code: MUS(H) 103 Course Title: Piano I Marks: 70 Unit I. Piano Each student will take private piano lessons during the semester regardless of the level one may be either, a beginner or advanced. The student will perform 2 prepared pieces at the end of the semester before a jury. Unit II. Practical I Marks: 30 a. Play triads in root position in all white and black keys. b. Be able to play major scales up to two sharp keys and two flat keys. SEMESTER II (PASS AND HONOURS) Course Code: MUS(P&H) 102 Course Title: Music Theory II Marks: 70 Unit I. A. Harmony (Common Practice): The DiatonicVocabulary 1. Seventh Chords and the Dominant Seventh 2. Phrase Structure and Cadences. 3. Non-harmonic Tones. 4. Harmonization of Melodies and Progressions. Unit II. Practical II Marks: 30 A. Sight-singing a. Sing melodies with more complicated rhythms and compound time signatures. B. Ear Training a. Melodic and rhythmic dictation. C. Conducting a. Basic beat patterns b. Preparatory beat, fermatas, divided, and cut-offs. Patkai Christian College 3

4 Course Code: MUS(H) 104 Course Title: Piano II Unit I. Piano II SEMESTER II (HONOURS) Marks: 70 Each student will continue to take private piano lessons during the semester will perform 2 prepared pieces at the end of the semester before a jury. Unit II. Practical II Marks: 30 a. Keyboard chord progressions. b. Be able to play all major scales and minor scales (harmonic or melodic) up to two flats and two sharp keys. Course Description Music Theory I This study includes the following music fundamentals: elementary acoustics, keyboard layout, clefs, note identification, key and time signatures, meter, rhythm, intervals, scales, triads, figured bass, diatonic voice-leading, cadences, and elementary harmonic progressions. Music Theory II Continuation of MUS 101 with emphasis on voice leading and harmonic progressions. It includes more part-writing, non-harmonic tones, cadences, figured bass, and Roman analysis. Practical I and II (P) This is an integrated course involving the study of elementary sight singing, ear training, conducting, and basic keyboard knowledge. Piano I and II (H) It is necessary for every musician regardless of the preferred instruments to have a basic proficiency in piano. Hence, every honour candidates will be required to take private piano lessons in the first year of the course. Practical I and II (H) This constitutes further in depth keyboard knowledge for the honour students. Patkai Christian College 4

5 Recommended Text Books Music Theory Harder, Paul O. and Greg A. Steinke. Harmonic Materials in Tonal Music: A Programmed Course. 6 th Ed. (Part I and II). Boston, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon, Spencer, Peter. The Practice of Harmony. 5 th Ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc., Practical Benward, Bruce. Ear Training: A Technique for Listening. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Publishers, Basic Sightsinging and Eartraining. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Publishers, Green, Elizabeth. The Modern Conductor. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Horacek, Leo and Gerald Lefkoff. Programmed Ear Training (Vols. 1 and II). New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., A standard hymnal. Suggested Reference Books Music Theory Piston, Walter. Harmony (any edition). W. W. Norton: New York. Siegmeister, Ellie. Harmony and Melody, (Vols. 1 and II). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., Practical Benward, Bruce. Sightsinging Complete. 3 rd ed. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Company, Berkowitz, Sol. A New Approach to Sight Singing. Rev. Ed. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Cole, Samuel and Leo R. Lewis. Melodia (Complete). Philadelphia, PA: Oliver Ditson Company. Patkai Christian College 5

6 DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC SYLLABUS B.A. II (PASS and HONOURS) Year Semester Course Codes Course Titles Marks Allotment MUS(P&H) 205 Music Appreciation and Practical III CA ESF Grand Total Theo. Prac Theo. Prac 3 rd MUS(H) 207 Harmony I and Practical III = II 4 th MUS(P&H) 206 Music History I and Practical IV Same as above MUS(H) 208 Harmony II and Practical IV CA: Continuous Assessment ESE: End Semester Examination Credit Hours: Pass Course (3 theory + 1 practical=4) Honours Course (4 theory + 1 practical=5) Patkai Christian College 6

7 Semester III (Pass and Honours) Course Code: MUS(P&H) 205 Course Title: Music Appreciation and Practical III Marks: 70 Unit 1. Vernacular Music a. Folk Music and the Blues b. Religious Music 2. Jazz Music and Popular Music Unit 3. World Music a. Music of the Americas b. Music Beyond the Americas C. Unit 4. Western Classical Music 1. Music to Music of the Baroque ( ) 3. Music of the Classic Period ( ) 4. Music of the Romantic Period (19 th Century) Unit 5. Music of the Twentieth Century a. Music in Today s Society PRACTICAL Marks: 30 A. Sight-singing B. Ear training C. Basic Conducting SEMESTER III (HONOURS) Course Code: MUS(H) 207 Course Title: Harmony I and Practical III Marks: 70 Common Practice: Chromatic Vocabulary Unit 1. Review of Seventh Chords and the Dominant Seventh and Nondominant Seventh Chords. 2. Altered Nonharmonic Tones and Secondary Dominants 3. Modulation to Closely Related Keys. 4. Borrowed Chords. 5. Augmented Sixth Chords. PRACTICAL Marks: 30 A. Sight singing a. Sing melodies with more complicated rhythms (triplets, compound time signatures, etc.). B. Ear training C. Conducting a. More dynamics and phrasing. b. Song leading. D. Hymn playing I a. Learn 2 hymns of easy level (one flat/sharp key at the teacher s discretion) Patkai Christian College 7

8 SEMESTER IV (PASS AND HONOURS) Course Code: MUS(P&H) 206 Course Title: Music History I and Practical IV Marks: 70 Unit 1. Life and Thought in Ancient Greece and Rome 2. Music in the Middle Ages 3. Age of the Renaissance 4. Music of the Baroque Era 5. Music in the Early Eighteenth Century PRACTICAL Marks: 30 A. Advanced sight-singing B. Advanced aural skills C. Ensemble/Choral conducting SEMESTER IV (HONOURS) Course Code: MUS(H) 208 Course Title: Harmony II and Practical IV Marks: 70 Unit 1. The Neopolitan Sixth, Altered Dominants, and Diminished Seventh Chords. 2. Chromatic Third-Relation Harmony. 3. Modulation to Foreign Keys. 4. Ninth, Eleventh, Thirteenth Chords and Chord Symbols. 5. Modal Harmony. PRACTICAL Marks: 30 A. Advanced sight-singing B. Advanced aural skills C. Ensemble/Choral conducting D. Hymn playing II a. Learn 2 hymns (2-3 flast/sharps key at teacher s discretion) Patkai Christian College 8

9 COURSE DESCRIPTION Music Appreciation A survey of world music. An overview of cultural contexts and approaches to the study of indigenous music including Western music constitutes the nature of this course. Harmony I and II These two courses cover the study of extended chords; various types of altered nonharmonic tones and chords; modulation and; modal harmony. Music History I A chronological, historical approach to Western music as practiced from antiquity to the Baroque period. Practicals Practicals are integrated with previous semester s courses in sight singing and ear training. The conducting segment will require the student to work with a choir or ensemble involving the teaching and performance of some standard choral works. Honour students will be required to keep up their keyboard facility by learning to play some hymns. Recommended Text Books Music Appreciation Kamien, Roger. Music: An Appreciation. 4 th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, Willoughby, David. The World of Music. 4 th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill College, Harmony Steinke, George A. Harmonic Materials in Tonal Music: A Programmed (Part II). Boston, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon, Course. 6 th Ed. Music History Grout, Donald J. and Claude V. Palisca. A History of Western Music. 4 th ed. (and subsequent editions), New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company, Practicals Benward, Bruce. Ear Training: A Technique for Listening. 3 rd ed. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Publishers, Basic Sightsinging and Eartraining. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Publishers, Horacek, Leo and Gerald Lefkoff. Programmed Ear Training (Vols. 1 and II). New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., Ball, Louis O. Five Practical Lessons for Church Pianists. Nashville, TN: Convention Press, Brown, Don. Five Practical Lessons in Song Leading. Nashville, TN: Convention Press, 1982 Green, Elizabeth. The Modern Conductor. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Lock, William. Basic Conducting. (Class Notes). La Midara, Ca: Private binding, Webb, Guy B. Up Front! Becoming the Complete Choral Conductor. Boston, MA: E. C. Schirmer Music Company Inc., Patkai Christian College 9

10 DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC SYLLABUS B.A. III (PASS and HONOURS) Year Semester Course Codes Course Titles Marks Allotment MUS (P&H) 309 Hymnology and Practical V CA ESF Grand 5 th Theo. Prac Theo. Prac Total MUS(H) 311 Music History II and Practical V = III MUS (P&H) 310 World Music and Practical VI 6 th MUS(H) 312 Introduction to Ethnomusicology and Practical VI Same as above CA: Continuous Assessment ESE: End Semester Examination Credit Hours: Pass Course (3 theory + 1 practical=4) Honours Course (4 theory + 1 practical=5) Patkai Christian College 10

11 SEMESTER V (PASS & HONORS) Course Code: MUS(P&H) 309 Course Title: Hymnology and Practical V Marks: 70 Unit 1. Hymns as Literature a. Hymns and Scriptures b. Hymns and Theology c. Hymn Tunes 2. Types of Hymnody a. Early Christian Hymnody b. The Lutheran Chorale c. Psalmody d. English Hymnody e. American Hymnody 3. Hymns in Non-Western Cultures 4. Contemporary Christian Song 5. Congregational Song PRACTICAL Marks: 30 A. Advanced sight-singing B. Advanced ear training C. Ensemble/Choral conducting SEMESTER V ( HONOURS) Course Code: MUS(H) 311 Course Title: Music History II and Practical V Marks: 70 Unit 1. Music of the Classical Era A. Sonata, Symphony, and Opera in the Early Classic Period. B. Late 18 th Century: Haydn and Mozart. C. Beethoven. 2. Nineteenth Century Music A. Romanticism and Nineteenth Century Orchestral Music. B. Solo, Chamber, and Vocal Music. C. Opera and Music Drama. 3. European Music from 1870s to 20 th Century. A. Music from 1870s to WW I B. European Mainstream in the 20 th Century. 4. Atonality, Serialism and New Developments in the 20 th Century Europe. A. Composers B. New Timbres, Electronic Resources, and Indeterminacy. 5. American Art Music A. American Composers Practical Marks: 30 A. Advanced sight-singing B. Advanced ear training C. Ensemble/Choral conducting D. Hymn playing III Patkai Christian College 11

12 SEMESTER VI (PASS AND HONORS) Course Code: MUS(P&H) 310 Course Title:World Music and Practical VI Marks: 70 Unit 1. Music Culture as a World of Music 2. Discovering and Documenting a World of Music 3. North America/Native and Black 4. Europe and Africa 5. India: Instrument Building and Performance PRACTICAL Marks: 30 A. Advanced sight-singing B. Advanced Aural Skills C. Ensemble/Choral Conducting SEMESTER VI (HONOURS) Course Code: MUS(H) 312 Course Title: Introduction to Ethnomusicology and Practical VI 70 Marks: Unit 1. Introduction a. Definitions b. Brief History c. Aims and Purposes 2. Setting the Foundation a. Ideas about Music b. Social Organization of Music c. Repertories of Music 3. Research Tools and Application a. Stages of Field Research b. Steps in Collection of Data 4. Classification of Instruments: Organology 5. Indian Classical Music a. Short History of Indian Classical Music b. Essential Elements c. Instruments d. Genres PRACTICAL Marks: 30 A. Advanced sight-singing B. Advanced Aural Skills C. Ensemble/Choral Conducting Patkai Christian College 12

13 Course Description SEMESTER V (PASS AND HONORS) Hymnology This course aims to acquaint the student with the literary, theological, scriptural, musical, historical, and practical foundations of songs used in the church. The course will also equip the student with some basic resources of hymnological research. World Music This course will introduce the students to experience and understand music in the context of human life. Students will learn how a beginner may document, sing, and perform his own or music of another culture. Music History II A chronological, historical approach to Western music as practiced from the Baroque era to the twentieth century. Introduction to Ethnomusicology This course will introduce the student to the basic elements of ethnomusicology: brief history, working definitions, and theoretical and practical tools in the study of music in culture. Practicals These are integrated courses continuing the study of more advanced sight singing (standard classical piece), ear training (includes 4-part harmonic dictation) and conducting. The conducting segment will require the student to lead the music in a worship setting as well as teach a choir. Students will also experience teaching music fundamentals in a classroom setting (high school level). Honour students will be expected to play hymns in a congregational setting. Recommended Text Books Hymnology Reynolds, William J., Milburn Price, Davis Music. A Survey of Christian Hymnody. 4 th ed. Carol Stream, IL: Hope Publishing Co., A Standard Hymnal Suggested Reference Books Eskew, Harry, and Hugh T. McElrath. Sing With Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Hymnology. 2nd ed. Nashville: Church Street Press, Hustad, Donald P. Jubilate! Church music in the Evangelical Tradition. Carol Stream, IL: Hope Publishing Company, Wilson-Dickson, Andrew. The Story of Christian Music. Oxford, England: Lion Publishing place,1992. Music History Grout, Donald J. and Claude V. Palisca. A History of Western Music. 5 th ed. New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company, Patkai Christian College 13

14 World of Music Stock, Jonathan. World Sound Matters. London: Schott Educational Publications, (Teacher s Manual and Transcriptions) Titon, Jeff, gen. ed. Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the music of the World s People. New York: Schirmer Books, 1984 Introduction to Ethnomusicology Merriam, Alan P. The Anthropology of Music. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, (Part One only) Myers, Helen, ed. Ethnomusicology: An Introduction Vol. 1. New York: W. W. Norton, Schrag, Brian and Paul Neeley, eds. All the World Will Worship: Helps for Developing Indigenous Hymns. Duncanville, TX: Ethnodoxology Publications, (Part Four only) Practicals Benward, Bruce. Workbook in Advanced Ear Training and Sight Singing. Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, Berkowitz, Sol, Gabriel Fontrier, etc. A New Approach to Sight Singing. Rev. ed., New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1976 Horacek, Leo and Gerald Lefkoff. Programmed Ear Training (Vols. 1 and II). New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., Ball, Louis O. Five Practical Lessons for Church Pianists. Nashville, TN: Convention Press, Green, Elizabeth. The Modern Conductor. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Webb, Guy B. Up Front! Becoming the Complete Choral Conductor. Boston, MA: E. C. Schirmer Music Company Inc., Patkai Christian College 14

15 Statement of Purpose DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC UGC Sponsored Career Oriented Course In MUSIC The department seeks to impart music education of the highest quality possible in order to foster a creative, competitive, and a productive learning spirit among the students. 1. Develop in students an awareness of the power of music to encourage self-realization and mastery, social understanding and enrichment, and an appreciation of the value of musical service to our community and culture. 2. Equip students from any stream of studies to teach basic music rudimentary with competency and skill, thereby, providing more options for employment. Eligibility: Any PCC students from all the streams. Duration: Two semesters Intake capacity: 30 maximum Patkai Christian College 15

16 Distribution of papers and credits: Proposed Curriculum for Certificate Type of Papers Ist Semester 2 nd Semester Total Theory Theory and Musicianship I (2 credits) Theory and Musicianship I (2 credits) 4 Applied Music Any Instruments Any Instruments 8 Piano/Guitar/Voice Piano/Guitar/Voice (4 credits) (4 credits) Projects Ensemble and Performance (4 credits) Ensemble and Performance (4 credits) credits Total Scheme of Evaluation: The Theory paper will carry 100 marks. The term Musicianship constitutes the practical part of the theory and will carry 100 marks as well. The marks will be divided into continuous assessment (CA) and semester end examination at the ratio of 30:70 Grading System: A per the College guidelines. Patkai Christian College 16