Module: Performance Ear Training

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Performance Ear Training
Module Code	MC330 (ITS) / MPA1063 (Banner)
Faculty	Humanities & Social Sciences	School	Theology, Philosophy & Music
Module Co-ordinator	Cormac O'Brien
Module Teachers	Greg Felton, Linda Adams
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

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Description

A module focussing on techniques to help learners develop a sophisticated ear, capable of dealing with the many aural challenges which face improvisers in contemporary jazz, and which are typical of the real world of professional jazz. The module uses real-time performance techniques to explore practical ear training and will concentrate on being able to identify and respond to aural information as it might appear in a live performance setting. Included in the module will be such techniques as identifying chord progressions, root movements, by ear and naming and improvising over them, as well as learning and tunes by ear.

Learning Outcomes

1. Be able to quickly learn tunes by ear
2. Be able improvise over unseen chord progressions by ear
3. Be able to identify a series of chord progressions by ear
4. Be able to identify scale sources of chords

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Lecture	24	Weekly, A one-hour group class
Independent Study	101	Independent practice of aural recognition techniques
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Identifying and responding to aural information
The module will focus on techniques to help learners develop a sophisticated ear, capable of dealing with the many aural challenges which face improvisers in contemporary music, and which are also typical of the real world of professional jazz. The module uses real-time performance techniques to explore practical ear training and will concentrate on being able to identify and respond to aural information as it might appear in a live performance setting. Areas covered will include: ° Identifying root movements by ear and singing them ° Identifying chord progressions by ear and naming them ° Identifying chord progressions by ear and improvising over them ° Learning tunes quickly and accurately by ear

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Performance evaluation	Final Performance Assessment – a 30-minute assessment involving a series of aural recognition tasks covered in the lecture-workshop	100%	Sem 2 End

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Coker, Jerry: 2015, Hearin’ the Changes: Dealing with Unknown Tunes by Ear, Advance Music,

Other Resources

0, App, Jakobsen, Hans Lavdal, 2016, EarMaster, EarMaster ApS,