MUS 107 - Music Fundamentals

1. Imitate and identify rhythmic elements.
2. Develop your singing voice.
3. Sing and identify scales, intervals and triads.
4. Recognize, identify and conduct in various meter signatures.
5. Create and improvise rhythmic patterns.
6. Improvise and sing call and response and question/answer melodies.
7. Express tempo, dynamics and phrasing.
8. Write musical notation using the grand staff.

A. Syllabus Questions and answers

B. Getting to know your classmates

C. Listening to music examples and finding musical examples

II. Meter

1. Internalizing meter using movement and conducting

2. Move in duple and triple

3. Echo clap in various rhythmic patterns

4. Begin to read rhythms 

B. Pitch

1. Listen for melodic contour

2. Sing melodies

3. Explore melodic direction

4. Explore tonic and dominant 

C. Read

1. Discover lines and spaces
2. Discover the spatial relationships between pitches
3. Staff work- treble and bass clef and grand staff
4. Read, sing and conduct simple melodies
5. Folk songs for ease of beginning reading of notes and rhythms
6. Look for notes going up, down, and staying the same
7. Read one line songs in both treble and bass clefs.
8. Write music from one clef to the other clef.

E. Listen

1. Explore great artists and their music

2. Discover form

3. Examine time periods of music

4. Evaluate timbre choices by the composer

III. The following areas are to be reinforced each week in all class meetings:

A. Experience rhythm patterns and meter in multiple ways: e.g. body percussion, vocables, clapping, tapping, drummimg, walking, running, skipping, etc. 

B. Meter idenfication.

C. Reinforce rhythmic memory through Echo clapping.

D. Read those two rhythm measures from music - whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth notes

E. Speak in Mnemonics (ta tis or du de) for the rhythms and in common counting

F. Lead in two measure echo clapping without stopping the flow of clapping

G. Improvise two measure in a 4 beat pattern

H. Explore compound meter - 6/8 and 9/8 and experience it the same as the above simple meters

I. Listen to music and discern its meter aurally

J. Discover dotted rhythms and how to count and play them

K. Pitch - hear melody go up, down, and stay the same

L. Sing and match pitch to be able to experience pitch movement

M. Explore direction by drawing graphs

N. Finding the home key - tonic (Gordon audiation)

O. Sing scales and use curwen hand signs to begin understanding tonality and stepwise motion

P. Melody can be stepwise and have intervals.

Q. Hear sol, mi; Add la; Add do,re,fa, and leading tone ti

R. Sing and echo solfege beginning with sol, mi while using curwen signals

S. Begin reading from a treble and bass staff - draw five lines and 4 spaces in both clefs. Explain clefs

T. Sing from the staves by sight easy two measure lines with intervals of a fifth or less

U. Read folk songs to analyze step and skips

V. Discover Major and minor melodies. Sing and play them to become immersed in the tonality

Demonstration: 15-30%

Group work and individual projects: 25-35%

Auralia and Musition applications: 10-20%

Facilitating singing, playing instruments: 10-25%

Directed listening lesson: 10-20%