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Course Syllabus

MUSC 1130 Sight Singing/Ear Training I

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Music
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 1; Lab: 1
  • Corequisites: MUSC 1110
  • Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
  • Semester Approved: Summer 2024
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Spring 2029
  • End Semester: Spring 2030
  • Optimum Class Size: 15
  • Maximum Class Size: 20

Course Description

This course is required for 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.

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

  1. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately sight sing assigned and unfamiliar melodies of advancing difficulty.
  2. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately and fluently count rhythms of advancing difficulty.
  3. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately notate melodies by ear.
  4. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately notate rhythms by ear.
  5. Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately notate harmonic progressions by ear, as well as the corresponding Roman Numerals and Chord Symbols.

Course Content

This course will cover the following skills and topics:
sight singing of unfamiliar melodies
dictation of melodies
intervals (simple and compound)
chords with extensions
scales and modes
irregular rhythms
common 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.