MUSC-110P Ear Training and Musicianship I
This is the first of a four-semester sequence of ear training and musicianship courses required of all music majors. Along with MUSC-110A, Music Theory I, students will develop skills in sight reading, sight singing, and taking dictations.
Hours Weekly
2 hours lab and additional practice time weekly
Course Objectives
- 1. Sight sing major/minor/chromatic intervals and scales.
- 2. Sight sing melodies in major and minor which include outline of tonic triads in all
inversions, using syllables in the movable “Do” system.
- 3. Sight sing diminished and augmented triads and inversions.
- 4. Take accurate dictation of four bar melodies which include intervals from tonic triad in
major keys. - 5. Perform rhythm exercises at sight which include dotted rhythms in simple time as well as
the subdivided beat in a simple and compound time. - 6. Recognize aurally the following: major and minor scales, triads, triad factors in the outer
voices of a four-part texture, and common cadential chord progressions.
Course Objectives
- 1. Sight sing major/minor/chromatic intervals and scales.
- 2. Sight sing melodies in major and minor which include outline of tonic triads in all
inversions, using syllables in the movable “Do” system.
- 3. Sight sing diminished and augmented triads and inversions.
- 4. Take accurate dictation of four bar melodies which include intervals from tonic triad in
major keys. - 5. Perform rhythm exercises at sight which include dotted rhythms in simple time as well as
the subdivided beat in a simple and compound time. - 6. Recognize aurally the following: major and minor scales, triads, triad factors in the outer
voices of a four-part texture, and common cadential chord progressions.