MCGY1008: Harmony and Analysis 1, MCGY1009 Harmony and Analysis 2

Assignments (35%), online quizzes (10%), examination (55%)

For MCGY1008: Ability to read musical notation including treble and bass clefs, and knowledge of scales, intervals and triads in tonal music. I would recommend completing AMEB Fourth Grade or an equivalent to it. For MCGY1009: MCGY1008

This subject was the cause of most of my stress this year. I entered Harmony having what I thought was a decent amount of knowledge about classical music harmony but I was completely shocked coming into my first few weeks of MCGY1008 and realising how behind I was from everyone else. MCGY1009 was a lot better experience-wise because I changed my study strategy for the subject completely so although I scored just a bit lower, it at least did not feel like a fluke.

The assessments make sense but I am not a fan of the online quizzes. I had to put a reminder for myself to do them just to ensure I could get a guaranteed good mark for that 10% in the unit. The assignments also got progressively easier over time but my results still fluctuated depending on the topic. I hope this is something that I can tackle better next year. I found the final exam great structurally and easy to prepare notes for but definitely could have revised better for it in hindsight.

At the end of the day, I think both units are really beneficial and important to the study of music. Despite my complaints and concerns throughout the semester on whether I would be able to get by in it, I managed to come out of both MCGY1008 and MCGY1009 feeling somewhat accomplished. I do think that Lewis is one of the best lecturers at the Con and I only wish I did him more justice with how I performed. My tutor Peter though was really amazing and left me some great inside jokes and roasts in my feedback which motivated me to try harder (though I really just could not get out of the habit of having parallel fifths). I hope I can look back at my experience with fondness long term and am interested to see what is in stall for Harmony 3!

1x 1 hour lecture, 1x 1 hour tutorial

3.5/5

Yes; they are uploaded after the lecture is delivered.

Lewis Cornwell

None

3.5/5

Workbook for Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music 2nd Edition (Robert Gauldin)

2019, Semester 1, 2

MCGY1008: 77 DI, MCGY1009: 76 DI