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Course Syllabus

MUSC 1130 Sight Singing/Ear Training I

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Music
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 1; Lab: 1
  • Corequisites: MUSC 1110.
  • Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
  • Semester Approved: Summer 2024
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Spring 2029
  • End Semester: Spring 2030
  • Optimum Class Size: 15
  • Maximum Class Size: 20

Course Description

This course will introduce students to the process of sight singing and musical dictation by ear. The course will promote the development of each student's ability to sing music at sight, notate melodies and rhythms by ear, improvise, and identify and notate choral harmonies by ear. This course must be taken concurrently with MUSC 1110. Required for music majors.

Justification

Courses of this type are required in baccalaureate music degrees in Utah and the United States. This course is required for students completing the BMCM degree at Snow College, and similar classes are offered at all other USHE institutions.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately sight sing assigned and unfamiliar melodies of advancing difficulty.
  2. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately and fluently count rhythms of advancing difficulty.
  3. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately notate melodies by ear.
  4. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately notate rhythms by ear.
  5. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately notate harmonic progressions by ear, as well as the corresponding Roman Numerals and Chord Symbols.

Course Content

This course will cover the following skills and topics:sight singing of unfamiliar melodiesdictation of melodiesintervals (simple and compound)chords with extensionsscales and modesirregular rhythmscommon practice harmonic progressions. Students from a wide skill level spectrum will be given practice strategies and tools to develop foundations in audiation and sight singing.