HØR1100

Course Overview

• Credits: 5 ECTS credits
• Level (Cycle): Bachelor’s level (First Cycle)
• Teaching Period and Duration: Teaching begins in the autumn semester and extends over two semesters.
• Admission Requirement: Admission to the Bachelor’s Programme in Music Performance
• Prerequisites: Successful completion of the entrance examination for the Bachelor’s Programme in Music Performance
• Location of Instruction: Oslo
• Assessment: Portfolio assessment

Learning Outcomes

Students who have successfully completed the course:

• are able to identify fundamental musical structures both aurally and visually, and to reproduce them orally and in writing.
• are able to sight-read, memorise and reproduce melodies and rhythms, including simple polyrhythms.
• have a basic understanding of tonal harmony.
• are able to apply knowledge and skills acquired in aural training to practical music-making.

Teaching and Learning Methods

The course covers work in the following areas:

• Melody, harmony and rhythm
• Developing an awareness of fundamental structures in tonal and atonal music
• Sight-reading (prima vista)
• Chord dictation
• Aural analysis
• Performance on the principal study instrument