Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen
Koninklijk Conservatorium van Antwerpen
Practical Harmony and Improvisation - major 4526/3084/2324/1/40
Study guide

Practical Harmony and Improvisation - major 4

526/3084/2324/1/40
Academic year 2023-24
Is found in:
  • Master of Arts in Music, programme stage 4
    Choice option within specialisation:
    • Music Theory (conducting) within Conducting
    • Piano focus creating musician within Instrumental / Vocal studies
    • Pianoforte Focus Creating musician within Instrumental / Vocal studies
  • Master of Arts in Music
    Specialisation:
    • Composition
    Choice option within specialisation:
    • Music Theory (conducting) within Conducting
In other study programme:
  • Aanvullende opleiding Koninklijk Conservatorium as Practical Harmony and Improvisation - major 4
This is a single course unit.
Study load: 6 credits
Co-ordinator: Van Kerkhoven Joost
Other teaching staff: Demeyere Ewald, De Splenter Maarten, Senden Yves
Teaching staff are not (all) known yet.
Languages: Dutch, English
Scheduled for: Academic year
This course unit is marked out of 20 (rounded to an integer).
Possible deadlines for learning account: 31.10.2023 ()
Re-sit exam: is possible.
Possibility of deliberation: You have to pass this course unit (will never be deliberated).
Total study time: 180,00 hours

Prerequisites

previously registered for Practical Harmony and Improvisation - major 3.

Prerequisite competencies (text)

Achievement of the learning outcomes of the previous course unit.

Learning outcomes (list)

1.3 The student can take on a leading role in an ensemble.
The student can perform the improvisation exercises within various settings.
2.1 The student has thoroughly mastered musical parameters and structures.
The student can improvise larger structures in tonal styles (including minuets, sonata form, the idiom of J.S. Bach, D. Scarlatti, J. Haydn, W.A. Mozart).
2.4 The student has acquired the correct playing techniques and posture.
The student can play non-fugal partimenti (alle movimenti, and can improvise a simple partita in 17th century style).

Course content

Read the vademecum.
Students receive an intense training in Practical Harmony. Its content leans towards traditional aspects on the one hand: acquiring skills in chord playing, harmonising melodies, realising a basso continuo, score reduction, sight reading, theme with variations, transposition and improvisation. On the other hand, there remains room for a more integrated approach.
The theoretical and analytical understanding of music is linked to performance practice in this course unit. A selection is made from the range of possible working methods (read Vademecum).

Study material (text): Mandatory

Pieces from the student's own repertoire will be used.

Educational organisation (list)

Learning Activities
Artistic praxis30,00 hours
Work time outside of contact hours150,00 hours

Evaluation (list)

Evaluation(s) for first exam chance
MomentForm%Remark
Eerste examenperiodeArtistic skills assessment during the examination series100,00
Evaluation(s) for re-sit exam
MomentForm%Remark
2nd examination periodArtistic skills assessment during the examination series100,00

Evaluation (text)

Assessment is based on a six-month skills test (50% of the points) and a skills test at the end of the academic year (50% of the points).