SATS1100

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: Written examination

Learning Outcomes

Students who have successfully completed the course have acquired a basic command of the following elements:

• Four-part harmony
• Linear voice leading
• Treatment of dissonance
• Suspensions and suspension chords
• Modulatory processes
• Functional harmonic analysis

Teaching and Learning Methods

The course focuses on four-part vocal writing based on functional harmony and provides the foundation for Harmony 2.

The course aims to deepen students’ understanding of tonal music. Through work with different textures and stylistic approaches within the framework of functional harmony, students develop a broad understanding of harmonic practice.

Teaching includes an introduction to the chorale tradition of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Students work with the harmonisation of four-part modulating vocal textures and engage in analytical studies of functional harmony and style.