Overview
Description
Advanced solfege and dictation, rhythmic and melodic.
Requirements
Prerequisites
MUS 311
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Units
Laboratory Studio1
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- sight-sing advanced chromatic melodies including modulations to distantly-related keys and atonal music.
- sight-sing melodies featuring irregular beat divisions and polyrhythms and/or in asymmetrical or mixed meters.
- sight-sing music in multiple parts (canons, duets, chorales, etc.) appropriate to the topics studied.
- accurately take dictation of chromatic, modulating to distantly related keys, modal, and post-tonal melodies.
- accurately take harmonic dictation including secondary/applied chords, non-dominant 7th chords, Neapolitan and augmented 6th chords and modulations to distantly related keys.
- accurately take dictation of rhythms featuring irregular beat divisions and poly-rhythms and/or in asymmetrical or mixed meters.
- accurately identify and sing the diatonic modes: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian.
- accurately identify and sing non-diatonic and synthetic scales: whole-tone, pentatonic etc.