Course Syllabus
Course: MUSC 2130
Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New MediaDepartment: Music
Title: Sight Sing/Ear Training III
Semester Approved: Summer 2019
Five-Year Review Semester: Spring 2025
End Semester: Spring 2025
Catalog Description: This course is required of music majors. Students develop and improve the ability to sing music at sight, notate melodies and rhythms as dictated, identify and notate chordal harmonies as dictated, improve keyboard skills, and improvise music. This course must be taken in sequence with other sight singing/ear training courses, and concurrently with MUSC 2110.
Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 2; Lab: 0
Prerequisites: Completion of MUSC 1140 with a grade of C or better or permission of instructor
Corequisites: MUSC 2110
Justification: This course, required of music majors in all university programs certified by the National Association of Schools of 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. Statewide articulation agreements stipulate the transfer of this course with a grade of C or better.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
Demonstrate the ability to sing and identify major and minor scales, and chromatic chords. This outcome will be assessed through student participation in class, dictation and sight singing assignments and exams.
Demonstrate the ability to accurately sightsing assigned and unfamiliar modulating and chromatic melodies of advancing difficulty. This outcome will be assessed through student participation in class, dictation and sight singing assignments and exams.
Demonstrate the ability to accurately and fluently count rhythms of advancing difficulty. This outcome will be assessed through student participation in class, dictation and sight singing assignments and exams.
Demonstrate the ability to accurately take both melodic and harmonic dictations which include modulations and altered chords. This outcome will be assessed through student participation in class, dictation assignments, and dictation exams.
Demonstrate the ability to detect errors in melodic dictation. This outcome will be assessed through student participation in class, dictation assignments, 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 in SS/ET IV will be assessed in the following ways:
Attendance at class sessions 10 to 15%
Dictation assignments and notation assignments 20 to 30%
Sight singing assignments 20 to 30%
Exams: Midterm and Final written and singing examinations. 30 to 40%
Representative Text and/or Supplies:
A New Approach to Sightsinging. Berkowitz, Frontrier, and Kraft. W. W. Norton. Current edition.
Pedagogy Statement:
This class will be delivered via direct instruction, student participation in sight singing and dictation, demonstration, and modeling.
Instructional Mediums:
Lecture/Lab
Maximum Class Size: 20
Optimum Class Size: 15