UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

MuT111 Score Reading

2nd Semester AY 2020-2021

COURSE GUIDE

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed for instrumentalists, composers, and conductors, to help develop
skills in reading and understanding an open score. It is usually offered to senior and
graduating students.

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon completing this course, each student shall be able to:
(1) read notation for transposing instruments with facility;
(2) readily recognize chords/structural points of harmony by simply looking
at a multi-part score;
(3) analyze the important elements of any given texture by simply looking at a
score;
(4) write and play a simple keyboard reduction of a multipart score excerpt;
and
(5) make sense of the harmonic structure of a music excerpt by reading
from an open score and playing it on the keyboard.

COURSE CONTENT

I. Sing and Play

a. Two Clefs
b. Three Clefs
II. Transposition
a. Notation
b. Keyboard reading
III. Four-Part Open Score Reading
a. Notation
b. Keyboard
IV. Open Score Analysis and Keyboard Reduction
V. Harmonic Structure

MODE OF DELIVERY
Synchronous meetings will be limited to absolute necessity and will be done through Zoom or
Messenger Room. One-on-one meetings will be held through Messenger, Google Duo, or
Zoom, depending on which platform proves to be the best for sound and video. Each of these
meetings will be pre-scheduled through a sign-up sheet to be posted on a Messenger group
chat. Submissions (written or otherwise) must be sent through email to: lamagalit@up.edu.ph.

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Graded performances may either be live (through video call) or pre-recorded, in the event
that live is not possible. Any readings or videos not on the module file will be made
accessible to you through links to a Google Drive.

COURSE MATERIALS
All readings, videos, exercises, music scores, answer sheets, and audio files will be provided
by the Instructor through links or as PDF uploaded to the UVLê course page.

STUDY SCHEDULE
Week Learning Resource Activity
Topic
1 COURSE ORIENTATION Keyboard, PDF, Plenary
1. Goals and expectations Zoom, Messenger
2. Overview of Course Content Room
and Flow

PIANO REVIEW One-on-one

1. Scales (one octave in all keys) diagnostic lesson
2. Tonic Chords (both hands, 4
notes each hand)

2 Lesson 1: SING AND PLAY Berkowitz Sing and One-on-one lesson

a. single melody Play, Sections 1 and 2 Graded performance 1
b. melody with keyboard Messenger or Zoom
accompaniment, two
clefs
c. melody with keyboard
accompaniment, three
clefs

3 Lesson 2: TRANSPOSING Music scores, One-on-one lesson,

INSTRUMENTS: by a 2nd and
by a 3rd (with compound
intervals)
4 Lesson 3: TRANSPOSING
INSTRUMENTS: by a 4th, by a
5th, and an octave
5 Lesson 4: TRANSPOSING
INSTRUMENTS: by a 6th and a
7th (with compound intervals)
6-7 MIDTERM: Cadential
Progressions
keyboard, Messenger Written Assignment 1
or Zoom (TBS)
Graded performance 2
Music scores, One-on-one lesson,
keyboard, Messenger Written Assignment 2
or Zoom (TBS)
Graded performance 3
Music scores, One-on-one lesson,
keyboard, Messenger Written Assignment 3
or Zoom (TBS)
Graded performance 4
Written work, music Written: pre-checked
scores, keyboard, Exam Performance: one-on-
sheet, Messenger one

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 9 Lesson 5: 4-part Keyboard: keyboard Self-practice
open score reading directly,
playing on the keyboard

10-11 Lesson 6: Keyboard Reduction keyboard, music sheets, Read, written exercise
(with Open Score Analysis) music scores Graded Performance
5: play the checked
reduction
12-13 Lesson 7: Orchestra Score: Zoom/Messenger Listen, read,
Harmonic Structure Room, module, music analyze, plenary,
score, keyboard, audio one-on-one
file consultation, self-
practice
14 FINAL EXAM Score, keyboard Play the harmonic
progression while
reading the
assigned open
score excerpt

COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Your final grade will be based on:
(1) Written Assignments: 30%
(2) Graded Performances: 30%
(3) Midterm and Final Exams: 40%

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Prof. Luci Magalit has been teaching Music Theory and Piano for more or less twenty years,
and Score Reading for the past four years. She holds a Bachelor of Music (summa cum laude)
and a Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance from the UP College of Music. Apart
from being a pianist, she is also a chorister, table tennis player, Bach-lover, and science
fiction fan. She was choir director at a local church in Quezon City for ten years, and is a
member of the Auit Vocal Chamber Ensemble.

HOUSE RULES
(1) Please submit your written work on time. Late submissions will disrupt the flow of
the whole course, since the graded performances (keyboard) are dependent on your
written work results. Nevertheless, the graded performances will be done as
scheduled with or without your written work submission.
(2) Consultations may be done through Messenger at any time, though replies
may vary in promptness.
(3) Each student must show up for his/her slot in all one-on-one activities. Failure to
show up (“absence”) without a valid excuse is a forfeiture of the day’s activity. An
alternative to an excused “absence” is submission of a video recording of the day’s
requirement. Guidelines for making video recordings will be posted on UVLê.
(4) In case of internet connectivity issues, please inform the Instructor via SMS. The
number will be posted in the group chat.
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(5) Both student and Instructor must be appropriately-dressed for the lesson.
(6) The materials used for this course were put together solely for the 2nd semester of AY
2020-2021. Please do not share any of these materials with anyone who is not your
classmate.