Develops sight singing and ear training skills introduced in MUS 141. Focuses on how to transcribe two-part and four-part pieces in major and minor keys. Recommended for aspiring full-time music students. Strongly recommended to be taken in conjunction with MUS 139, Music Theory 2.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
The purpose of this course is to develop individual musicianship and therefore promote musicianship as a worthy objective, and to allow the student to realize an honest musical self-appraisal and then an intelligent determination to continue his or her involvement with music on a vocational or avocational basis.
- Basic orientation including:
Lines and spaces, Key signatures, Notes: names and values, Time signatures, Solfeggio names and applications
- Implementing sight reading to include:
Classroom reading as a whole, Individual solo and ensemble participation, Regular practice habits to accelerate success
- Material to include:
A range of melodies: simple to complex, Major, Minor: natural, harmonic, and melodic, All intervals: simple to complex, Solo, duet, and small ensemble singing, Rhythmic organization: simple to complex
- Perform all fifteen major and minor (natural, harmonic, and melodic) scales and tonic-dominant seventh-tonic arpeggios utilizing note names
- Perform melodies (level 2), utilizing solfeggio, melodic numbers, rhythmic numbers, note names, and neutral syllable
- Perform duets (level 2) utilizing solfeggio, rhythmic numbers, and neutral syllable
- Identify time classification of recorded examples of compositions (level 2)
- Transcribe intermediate melodies in major and minor keys
- Conduct in duple, triple, and quadruple (simple and compound) meters, incorporating dynamic cues and entrances
Assessment and Requirements
- Class Participation
- Singing quizzes
- Dictation Quizzes
- Computer exercises
A New Approach to Sight Singing, by Berkowitz, et al. W.W. Norton Publishers
Outcomes
- Humanities and Fine Arts
- Humanities
- Category 5: Humanities and Fine Arts