Course Syllabus

MUSC 1140 Sight Sing/Ear Training II

Course Description

Catalog Description: This course will promote the development of each student's ability to sing music at sight, notate melodies and rhythms as dictated and identify and notate choral harmonies as dictated. Students are also given the opportunity to improvise. This course must be taken concurrently with MUSC 1120. Required of music majors.

Justification

This course, required of music majors in all university programs certified by the National Association of Schools in Music (NASM), develops musical skills expected of all BMCM graduates and 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.

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Students will demonstrate the ability to detect errors in melodic dictation.
2. Students will demonstrate the ability to sing and identify major and minor scales.
3. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately sight sing assigned and unfamiliar melodies of advancing difficulty.
4. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately and fluently count rhythms of advancing difficulty.
5. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately take both melodic and harmonic dictations.

Course Content

This course will include the following skill and knowledge building foundations:• sight singing of unfamiliar melodies• sight reading of unfamiliar rhythms• practicing a multitude of melodies throughout the semester• practicing a multitude of rhythms throughout the semester• dictation of intermediate melodies• interval familiarity up to an octave• dictation of intermediate rhythms• dictation and chord identification of intermediate harmonic progressions • continued proficiency in solfege