M-FT-RLB1

Theory Classes

3

8

30

5-minutes per participating student per week

20 hours

64 hours

Admitted to ArtEZ Composition for Film and Theatre.

See Competencies Matrix.

Learning to interpret and play notated rhythms (difficulty level: basic to intermediate) from various musical idioms.
Learning to recognize and notate the elementary note values of swung or straight quarters, eighths, triplets, sixteenths, rests and ties.
Building a ready repertoire of rhythmic fragments.
Developing elementary polyphonic rhythm playing.

This module is related to the main subject module as well as the theory modules.

Notating demonstrated (played and/or sung) monophonic rhythmic fragments.
Playing (on percussion) or singing notated rhythmic fragments.
Elementary two-voice rhythm playing and singing.
The study material is comprised respectively of:
Jazz and rock clichés, using eighths, quarters, dotted quarters, ties, rests, accents and basic cross-rhythms in 4/4, 3/4 and 2/2.
The same, but using triplets.
The same, but in 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8, using dotted eighths and sixteenths.
A broad selection of rhythmic materials used in classical and contemporary composed music.

Lab classes that, depending on the composition of the group, take place entirely on-campus, entirely online or in a combination of both, i.e., that there are attendees both physically in the classroom and virtually via a screen. Online attendees communicate by seeing, talking and listening to each other and the on-campus attendees equally. The teacher has access to a whiteboard, application sharing, desktop sharing and document sharing and can hand this privilege to any other participants.
Apart from the video conference a high quality stereo audio stream is open at the same time via source connect. That way students and instructor can listen to music from any source of the group and talk about it simultaneously.

Study materials and exercises designed by instructors.

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Written test with assessment by the instructor at the end of both semesters, and practical performance tests at the end of the both semesters, the second of which is assessed by a team of specialists.

Students are able to:
Correctly notate a demonstrated rhythm.
Sing or tap the repertoire built over the course of the module, keeping time by snapping the fingers of one hand.
After brief preparation, play a notated rhythmic fragment while keeping time by snapping the fingers of one hand.
Recognize complex and irregular (combined) rhythms and demonstrate ability to reproduce these rhythms and to use them in their own work.

The student has completed this module if their final assessment constitutes a minimum grade of 5.5. Assessment at the end of the autumn semester is formative and expressed in terms of satisfactory/unsatisfactory. It indicates a student's progress in this module. No ECs are awarded and there is no resit. Modules can only be absolved, and ECs awarded, after the end of the spring semester.
Tests conducted online are valid only if it is done without interruption. The assessor will decide whether or not the test was valid.

At the end of the first semester, the teacher gives a formative assessment. At the end of the second semester, students take a written and practical test.

See the Education and Assessment Plan.