Duration: 2 semesters/1 year
Language medium: English
Target group:
Students with a Senior Certificate but without specialized knowledge of music history and theory. These include the choral music community in South Africa, professional/aspiring musicians without formal qualifications, and others seeking foundational music history and theory, and entry into the Bachelor of Music degree.
Admission requirements:
NSC/Senior Certificate
Registration periods:
Semester Registration
. Semester 1 - PRMF02R
. Semester 2 - PRMF01Q and PRMF03S
Course leader details:
Dr. T.M. Pooley
BA Mus, BA Honours (summa cum laude). UKZN
MMUS (cum laude). Wits
MA, PhD. University of Pennsylvania.
Department of Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology
Building 12 C, Office 1-32, Sunnyside Campus
012 481 2830
pooletm@unisa.ac.za
Programme administrator:
Admin Officer
Unisa Centre for Lifelong Learning
360 Lillian Ngoyi Street, Pretoria Central
Solomon Mahlangu Building 2nd floor
Tel: 012 352 4288
Email address: UCL@unisa.ac.za
Application Link: www.unisa.ac.za/applyslp
Purpose statement:
The purpose of the Music Foundations SLP is to:
Provide music training to practicing and aspiring musicians, enabling access to music industry participation.
Enable alternative access to the BMus in order to increase enrolment and provide a more relevant service to a broader cross section of society.
Foster the spirit of open access through removal of barriers to admission to the BMus degree
Modules:
PRMF01Q - Foundations of Music History
Syllabus/Content:
Study unit 1: Introduction to Music History
Study Unit 2: Writing about music
Study Unit 3: Musical Instrument
Study Unit 4: Early Music and the Baroque
Study Unit 5 : Classical Music
Study Unit 6: Romantic Music
Study Unit 7: Twentieth Century Music
Study Unit 8: Jazz and Popular Music
Study Unit 9: African Music
Study Unit 10: South African Music
PRMF02R - Foundations in Music Theory Part 1
Syllabus/Content:
Notation of Pulse, Metre, Duration and Rhythm.
(Beat, Tempo, Metre, Bars and Barlines, Time Signatures, Durational Symbols, Notes and Rests, Additional Time signatures, Grouping Strong and Weak beats, Grouping in Compound Metres, Rhythmic Dissonance, Articulation, Dynamics, Tempo)
Pitch Notation
(Clefs, Ledger lines, Tones and Semi-tones, Accidentals, Intervals, Scales, Key signatures, Root position triads)
PRMF03S - Foundations of Music Theory Part 2
Syllabus/Content:
Secondary Triads
Roman Numeral
Melody Writing
Voice-Leading and Harmonic Progression
Dominant 7th Chords
Secondary Dominant Chords
Passing, Auxiliary, Arpeggiated and Cadential 6/4 chords
Modulation