KMB118 Musicianship 1
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| Unit code: | KMB118 |
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| Assumed Knowledge: | An understanding of the fundamentals of melody, harmony and rhythm, a basic proficiency in aural skills, and the ability to demonstrate these fundamentals with an instrument/s. |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $957 The pre-2021 commonwealth supported place (CSP) contribution amount only applies to students enrolled in a course prior to 2021. To learn more, visit our Understanding your fees page. |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,320 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KMB118 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | An understanding of the fundamentals of melody, harmony and rhythm, a basic proficiency in aural skills, and the ability to demonstrate these fundamentals with an instrument/s. |
| Coordinator: | Dominic Kingsford | dominic.kingsford@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit introduces the foundational aural and analytical skills to develop your understanding of music and sound. These skills will be applied to a range of musical styles, settings and practices. The development of critical listening and analytical skills, combined with representational and demonstrational skills across a broad range of music and sound, is critical to the developing modern musician. The unit will foster a deeper understanding of music and sound to help inform and situate your creative practice. It complements other creative, practical and analytical units in the degree by fostering a deeper understanding of music and sound.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate appropriate listening skills to recognise, differentiate and analyse key fundamental elements in the organisation of music and sound.
- Represent and discuss basic musical and sonic concepts, techniques and ideas using a variety of structures, skills, and literacies.
- Apply your understanding of basic music theory and organisational structures to musical works in a range of styles, settings and practices.
Content
This unit addresses content areas such as:
- Time - pulse, beat, rhythm, groupings, meter, tempo and subdivision;
- Frequency and pitch - scales, modes, harmony, intervals, chords, perception of groupings and frequency spectrum;
- Space - basic acoustics, stereo field, panning, depth of field;
- Context - music in historical, social, technological, aesthetics and performative settings;
- All of the above will relate to music across a range of periods, cultural settings and environments (e.g. popular music, non-western music, art music, jazz, electronic and other forms).
Learning Approaches
This unit adopts a blended learning approach through a range of learning experiences including online and in-class lectures, workshops and seminars. Using a combination of teacher-directed and student led activities students will discuss, critique and co-create music and sound materials from a wide range of sources.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Learning and assessment are supported by a range of weekly activities and tasks where you will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit. These activities and tasks are designed to help develop the skills and understanding you will need to successfully complete assessment items.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessment tasks for this unit. To evaluate your developing aural and oral skills and give your feedback on your progress, there will be a series of regular in-class tests. The second assignment is a portfolio which demonstrates your understanding of musical concepts, practices and contexts explored and experienced during semester.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Examination
Assessment of your aural analysis and evaluation skills and, demonstration of musicianship skills and knowledge in a range of contexts will occur over the semester (a maximum of 4).
Assessment: Portfolio
Folio of tasks that demonstrates your understanding of a range of concepts, practices and contexts through analysis, evaluation, and synthesis.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
Readings and resources deemed necessary by staff will be provided online.
Resource Materials
Software
Required material: subscription to Auralia and Musition software. Indicative cost - $59.
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.
- Excessive noise in confined spaces can damage hearing. Exposure to such noise should be brief and controlled.
- Personal injury is possible from incorrectly lifting heavy electronic or acoustic instruments or equipment
- The physical demands of playing instruments may cause injuries such as repetitive strain injury. If in doubt consult a physician
- The use of electronic instruments and equipment may cause electrocution if handled incorrectly or an electrical fault occurs. Always ensure your equipment has been regularly tested by a qualified electrician
- Musical, electrical and computer equipment is prone to failure. Any loss of time for such failures should be accounted for in your planning
- Safety of data storage can never be fully guaranteed. You are required to take all steps necessary to ensure continuity of your data.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
Relates to: ULO2 - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1 - Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO3
KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1 - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO2 - Communicate effectively in a range of forms across multiple media modes, for sharing and disseminating knowledge, skills and ideas, and collaborative practice and navigation of social networks.
Relates to: ULO2 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO3
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Online
| Unit code: | KMB118 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | An understanding of the fundamentals of melody, harmony and rhythm, a basic proficiency in aural skills, and the ability to demonstrate these fundamentals with an instrument/s. |
Overview
This unit introduces the foundational aural and analytical skills to develop your understanding of music and sound. These skills will be applied to a range of musical styles, settings and practices. The development of critical listening and analytical skills, combined with representational and demonstrational skills across a broad range of music and sound, is critical to the developing modern musician. The unit will foster a deeper understanding of music and sound to help inform and situate your creative practice. It complements other creative, practical and analytical units in the degree by fostering a deeper understanding of music and sound.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate appropriate listening skills to recognise, differentiate and analyse key fundamental elements in the organisation of music and sound.
- Represent and discuss basic musical and sonic concepts, techniques and ideas using a variety of structures, skills, and literacies.
- Apply your understanding of basic music theory and organisational structures to musical works in a range of styles, settings and practices.
Content
This unit addresses content areas such as:
- Time - pulse, beat, rhythm, groupings, meter, tempo and subdivision;
- Frequency and pitch - scales, modes, harmony, intervals, chords, perception of groupings and frequency spectrum;
- Space - basic acoustics, stereo field, panning, depth of field;
- Context - music in historical, social, technological, aesthetics and performative settings;
- All of the above will relate to music across a range of periods, cultural settings and environments (e.g. popular music, non-western music, art music, jazz, electronic and other forms).
Learning Approaches
This unit adopts a blended learning approach through a range of learning experiences including online and in-class lectures, workshops and seminars. Using a combination of teacher-directed and student led activities students will discuss, critique and co-create music and sound materials from a wide range of sources.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Learning and assessment are supported by a range of weekly activities and tasks where you will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit. These activities and tasks are designed to help develop the skills and understanding you will need to successfully complete assessment items.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessment tasks for this unit. To evaluate your developing aural and oral skills and give your feedback on your progress, there will be a series of regular in-class tests. The second assignment is a portfolio which demonstrates your understanding of musical concepts, practices and contexts explored and experienced during semester.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Examination
Assessment of your aural analysis and evaluation skills and, demonstration of musicianship skills and knowledge in a range of contexts will occur over the semester (a maximum of 4).
Assessment: Portfolio
Folio of tasks that demonstrates your understanding of a range of concepts, practices and contexts through analysis, evaluation, and synthesis.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
Readings and resources deemed necessary by staff will be provided online.
Resource Materials
Software
Required material: subscription to Auralia and Musition software. Indicative cost - $59.
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.
- Excessive noise in confined spaces can damage hearing. Exposure to such noise should be brief and controlled.
- Personal injury is possible from incorrectly lifting heavy electronic or acoustic instruments or equipment
- The physical demands of playing instruments may cause injuries such as repetitive strain injury. If in doubt consult a physician
- The use of electronic instruments and equipment may cause electrocution if handled incorrectly or an electrical fault occurs. Always ensure your equipment has been regularly tested by a qualified electrician
- Musical, electrical and computer equipment is prone to failure. Any loss of time for such failures should be accounted for in your planning
- Safety of data storage can never be fully guaranteed. You are required to take all steps necessary to ensure continuity of your data.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
Relates to: ULO2 - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1 - Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO3
KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1 - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO2 - Communicate effectively in a range of forms across multiple media modes, for sharing and disseminating knowledge, skills and ideas, and collaborative practice and navigation of social networks.
Relates to: ULO2 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO3