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Course Syllabus

Course: MUSC 1130

Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
Department: Music
Title: Sight Singing/Ear Training I

Semester Approved: Summer 2019
Five-Year Review Semester: Spring 2025
End Semester: Spring 2025

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

Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 1; Lab: 1

Prerequisites: Students must complete the Snow College Music Department Music Theory Placement Examination.

Corequisites: MUSC 1110.


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 is articulated with other USHE institutions for students transferring after two years of study at Snow.


Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will demonstrate the ability to sing and identify major and minor scales. This outcome is assessed through daily participation evaluation, dictation and notation written assignments, sight singing assignments, and exams.

Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately sight sing assigned and unfamiliar melodies of advancing difficulty. This outcome is assessed through daily participation evaluation, dictation and notation written assignments, sight singing assignments, and exams.

Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately and fluently count rhythms of advancing difficulty. This outcome is assessed through daily participation evaluation, dictation and notation written assignments, sight singing assignments, and exams.

Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately take both melodic and harmonic dictation. This outcome is assessed through daily participation evaluation, dictation and notation written assignments, sight singing assignments, and exams.

Students will demonstrate the ability to detect errors in melodic dictation. This outcome is assessed through daily participation evaluation, dictation and notation written assignments, sight singing assignments, and exams.


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

Key Performance Indicators:
Participation Rates 20 to 30%

Dictation and Notation Written Assignments 20 to 30%

Sight Singing Assignments  20 to 30%

Mid-Term and Final Singing and Dictation Exams 20 to 30%


Representative Text and/or Supplies:
A New Approach to Sightsinging. Berkowitz, Frontier, and Kraft. W. W. Norton. Current edition.


Pedagogy Statement:
This course is delivered via direct instruction, demonstration and modeling, collaborative student work and feedback, and student performance and evaluation.

Instructional Mediums:
Lecture/Lab

Maximum Class Size: 20
Optimum Class Size: 15