Courses / Module

• list the stylistic features of renaissance polyphony and aurally recognise music of the period.
• identify and distinguish between five species of two-voiced strict counterpoint.
• identify and manage the balance between linear and vertical ingredients of the music, by striving for undulating and independent individual lines, and by an appropriate combination of tension and release in the handling of dissonances and their resolutions.
• compose a passage of renaissance counterpoint for three voices in an imitative style.

• Module Graded (numeric value) or Ungraded (Pass/Not Passed): Graded
• Continuous Assessment detail(s): Four assignments
• Other detail(s): In house or take home exam

• Pass standard: 40%
• Could the result of this module be capped? No
• Penalties: 'The Department regards deadlines as absolute and operates a system of penalties for late submission. See the Department Undergraduate Handbook for full details.'

• Are supplemental/resit registrations permitted? Yes
• Continuous assessment marks are carried forward to the autumn. Dissertations-theses, recitals and composition-music technology portfolios presented for the first time in the Autumn Supplemental Examination Session will be capped at 40% in the absence of fully proven mitigating circumstances.
• Is Supplemental Continuous Assessment registration permitted? No
• Is Supplemental Continuous Assessment capped? No

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