AAI16J MUSIC THEORY FOR DIVERSE SONIC WORLDS I

This course is part of a three-course sequence aimed at equipping music students and student teachers with an inclusive epistemological framework to understand the wide and diverse array of musical traditions, styles and genres in today's music landscape as well as acquire some basic music composing skills. While the course content takes reference from the MOE school music syllabi, there are provisions for you to explore other musics or sonic worlds that are of interest to you. The music-theoretical foundation laid is broad and flexible enough to serve your learning across the music curriculum in your undergraduate studies at NIE and beyond. This first course, which is also offered as an NTU Broadening and Deepening Elective (BDE), puts you on a journey to examine and understand a select range of music - Western classical, a variety of pop, as well as Chinese traditional and Malay traditional musics - in a culturally-informed and, where relevant, non-Western centric manner. You will also learn the traditional SATB writing and two-part counterpoint not for its own sake but as a means to achieve a more generalized understanding of compositional thinking beyond the Western classical paradigm. This elective can be used to partially fulfil the Minor in Music 15-AU requirement.