DURATION: 1 year
ADDITIONAL ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
National Bachelor Certificate or equivalent with the minimum percentage of 30%, and an audition. Upon satisfying the conditions during the audition, a student may then proceed to register.
AIMS:
• Improve awareness of choral performance contexts and choral traditions in South Africa, Africa and the rest of the world.
• Develop music communication skills for enabling successful sustained learning.
• Improve the student’s ability to comprehend, analyse, evaluate and transmit ideas about choral music.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES:
The certificate prepares students to enter a degree programme in music and other related fields.
SPECIFIC OUTCOMES:
This programme will ensure that:
• Students are introduced to sight–singing and dictation, based mainly on the tonic solfa system.
• Students develop working knowledge of the keyboard necessary for choir training, arranging, improvisation, harmony and composition.
• Students develop a musical ear through the teaching of sight sing, rhythmic and melodic dictation.
• Students are equipped with knowledge concerning chord construction and modulations/transitions.
• Students can demonstrate awareness of elements of music such as pitch, harmony, form and rhythms.
• Students extend their practical abilities with more technical keyboard technique.
ARTICULATION:
This qualification leads to a bachelor’s degree in music and other related degrees.
PREREQUISITES: None
ACADEMIC STRUCTURE:
The programme consists of four modules per semester. Each first semester module is a prerequisite for its second semester module.
| YEAR 1 | |||||
| SEMESTER 1 | SEMESTER 2 | ||||
| Module Title | Codes | Credits | Module Title | Codes | Credits |
| Music literacy | CML 1521 | 20 | Music literacy | CML 1621 | 20 |
| Practical musicianship | CPM 1511 | 10 | Practical musicianship | CPM 1611 | 10 |
| History of music | CMH 1521 | 20 | History of music | CMH 1621 | 20 |
| Instrumental study | CIS 1511 | 10 | Instrumental study | CIS 1611 | 10 |
| Total credits | 120 | ||||
