Course Syllabus
Course: MUSC 1130
Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New MediaDepartment: Music
Title: Sight Singing/Ear Training I
Semester Approved: Summer 2024
Five-Year Review Semester: Spring 2029
End Semester: Spring 2030
Catalog 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.
Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 1; Lab: 1
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 similar classes are offered at all other USHE institutions.
Student Learning Outcomes:
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 notate melodies by ear. This outcome is assessed through daily participation evaluation, dictation and notation written assignments, sight singing assignments, transcription project, and exams.
Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately notate rhythms by ear. This outcome is assessed through daily participation evaluation, dictation and notation written assignments, sight singing assignments, transcription project, and exams.
Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately notate harmonic progressions by ear, as well as the corresponding Roman Numerals and Chord Symbols. This outcome is assessed through daily participation evaluation, dictation and notation written assignments, sight singing assignments, and exams.
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.
Key Performance Indicators:
Transcription Projects 5 to 15%
Sight Singing assignments 15 to 30%
Ear Training assignments 15 to 30%
Sight Singing Tests 15 to 30%
Ear Training Tests 15 to 30%
Participation 10 to 20%
Representative Text and/or Supplies:
Beginning Tonal Dictation. Durham. Current Edition.
Sight Singing Simplified. Dr. Trent Hanna. Current Edition.
Pedagogy Statement:
This course is delivered via direct instruction, demonstration and modeling, collaborative student work and feedback, and student performance and evaluation. Students will have a wide range of abilities. Instructor will seek to help each student assess strengths and weaknesses and create a regimen of strategies, tactics and tools that will build the requisite skills.
Instructional Mediums:
Lecture/Lab
Maximum Class Size: 20
Optimum Class Size: 15