MUSC-211P Ear Training and Musicianship IV
This is the last of a four-semester sequence of ear training and musicianship courses required of all music majors. Along with MUSC-211A, Music Theory IV, the course focuses on sharpening student skills in sight reading, sight singing, and taking dictations.
Prerequisite
MUSC-210P with a grade of C or better
Hours Weekly
2 hours lab and additional practice time weekly
Course Objectives
- 1. Sight sing melodies which contain chromatic intervals, remote modulation, augmented 6th
chords, Neapolitan 6th chords, and 20th century materials (changing meter, atonality, remote
modulation, and modality). - 2. Perform rhythms at sight which include duplet division of dotted note values, triplet division of
undotted note values, changing meter and time signatures, and hemiola. - 3. Take dictation of melodies which contain modulation to remote keys, modality, and
nondiatonic tones. - 4. Take dictation of harmonic progressions which contain secondary dominants, augmented 6th
and Neapolitan 6th chords, and modulation to foreign keys.
- 5. Take simple four-part dictation.
Course Objectives
- 1. Sight sing melodies which contain chromatic intervals, remote modulation, augmented 6th
chords, Neapolitan 6th chords, and 20th century materials (changing meter, atonality, remote
modulation, and modality). - 2. Perform rhythms at sight which include duplet division of dotted note values, triplet division of
undotted note values, changing meter and time signatures, and hemiola. - 3. Take dictation of melodies which contain modulation to remote keys, modality, and
nondiatonic tones. - 4. Take dictation of harmonic progressions which contain secondary dominants, augmented 6th
and Neapolitan 6th chords, and modulation to foreign keys.
- 5. Take simple four-part dictation.