Course Syllabus

MUSC 2130 Sight Sing/Ear Training III

Course Description

This course is required of music majors. Students develop and improve the ability to sing music at sight, notate melodies and rhythms as dictated, identify and notate chordal harmonies as dictated, improve keyboard skills, and improvise music. This course must be taken in sequence with other sight singing/ear training courses, and concurrently with MUSC 2110.

Justification

This course, required of music majors in all university programs certified by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), prepares music majors for transfer to Utah's colleges and universities which are all NASM accredited. It will also serve to develop music literacy in the non-major. Statewide articulation agreements stipulate the transfer of this course with a grade of C or better.

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
2. Demonstrate the ability to sing and identify major and minor scales, and chromatic chords.
3. Demonstrate the ability to accurately sightsing assigned and unfamiliar modulating and chromatic melodies of advancing difficulty.
4. Demonstrate the ability to accurately and fluently count rhythms of advancing difficulty.
5. Demonstrate the ability to accurately take both melodic and harmonic dictations which include modulations and altered chords.
6. Demonstrate the ability to detect errors in melodic dictation.

Course Content

• sight singing of unfamiliar melodies
• dictation of melodies
• intervals (simple and compound)
• chords with extensions
• scales and modes
• irregular rhythms
• advanced harmonic progressions