Course Syllabus
Course: MUSC 1140
Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New MediaDepartment: Music
Title: Sight Sing/Ear Training II
Semester Approved: Fall 2019
Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2025
End Semester: Summer 2025
Catalog 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, 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.
Semesters Offered: Spring, Summer
Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 2; Lab: 0
Prerequisites: MUSC 1110 (Music Theory I), MUSC 1130 (Sight Sing/Ear Training I)
Corequisites: MUSC 1120 (Music Theory II)
Justification: This course, required of music majors in all university programs certified by the National Association of Schools in 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.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will demonstrate the ability to detect errors in melodic dictation. This outcome will be assessed via written assignments, sight singing exams, and dictation exams.
Students will demonstrate the ability to sing and identify major and minor scales. This outcome will be assessed via written assignments, sight singing exams, and dictation exams.
Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately sight sing assigned and unfamiliar melodies of advancing difficulty. This outcome will be assessed via written assignments, sight singing exams, and dictation exams.
Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately and fluently count rhythms of advancing difficulty. This outcome will be assessed via written assignments, sight singing exams, and dictation exams.
Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately take both melodic and harmonic dictations. This outcome will be assessed via written assignments, sight singing exams, and dictation 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:
Students will be assessed in the following ways:
Participation rates: attendance at class sessions; 5 to 15%
Written assignments: Dictation assignments and notation assignments; 15 to 25%
Sight Singing Exams 30 to 40%
Dictation Exams 30 to 40%
Representative Text and/or Supplies:
Beginning Tonal Dictation, current edition, Thomas Durham
A New Approach to Sight Singing, current edition, Berkowitz, Fontrier, Kraft, Goldstein, and Smaldone
Pedagogy Statement:
This course will utilize direct lecture, student participation at the board, exercises singing and on individual instruments, and assignments based on the real world such as dictating pop melodies and chord progressions.
Instructional Mediums:
Lecture
Maximum Class Size: 30
Optimum Class Size: 15