专业英语 Academic English(音乐学院 - 国际合作办学部课程) 四学期之二 - 已结课 19/20b
This course aims at helping students integrate an intellectual understanding of music by using English in both academic and professional ways. Emphasis will be placed on text reading, real-time listening, and analysis.
Students will learn:
- Harmonic and formal principles in common-practice tonal music, and how these are used in different contexts;
- Compositional strategies for generating structural and/or expressive expectations;
- The inter-relationship of tonal syntax, phrase structure, motivic organization, and stylistic character;
- Different strategies for constructing analytical interpretations;
- Ways of communicating musical insights through verbal or written means in English.
Attendance:
Attendance is mandatory at both lecture and individual meetings, and the most critical part of your grading.
Textbook:
Burstein & Straus (2016) Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony - 1st edition
Homework Policy:
- Assignments from the workbook will be due the week after it is assigned.
- Marks will be deducted (by 50%) for a late submission.
- Assignments submitted more than two weeks late or submitted after the instructor has already handed back the corrected assignments to the class will not be accepted.
- Specific guidelines on assignments of the academic writing will be issued separately.
- Work on your own. Students handing in assignments/papers with unreasonably similar features may raise questions of originality and plagiarism.