MUS 215 - Aural Comprehension III

1. Notate, perform, and move rhythms in both simple and compound meters that include borrowed divisions, syncopation, ties, and rests utilizing beat, division, and subdivisions in common and uncommon meter signatures.
2. Sing, identify, and transcribe major and all forms of minor scales using note names, solfège, and numbers in any key, while demonstrating the dichord sung (half step, whole step, augmented 2nd). Major and Harmonic minor scales will be sung as C to C scales.
3. Sing, identify, and transcribe simple intervals played melodically or harmonically, as well as compound intervals played melodically.
4. Perform and transcribe diatonic melodies that include skips and leaps within 7th chords, and chromatic alterations.
5. Improvise a modulation to a closely related key using a familiar folk tune.
6. Sing and resolve the leading tone 7th chord and all of its inversions.
7. Transcribe four-part chorales of at least 8 chords utilizing I, I6, ii6, IV, IV6, V, V6/5, V4/3, V7, vi, viio7, as well as common secondary dominants.
8. Transcribe and sing the descending fifth progression with 7th chords.

1. Sightsinging
   1. Melody
      1. Singing Major and Harmonic minor scales as C to C scales
      2. Singing intervals, chords, and progressions
      3. Melodies in major and minor keys using the dominant seventh chord and the leading tone seventh chord
      4. Melodies in major and minor keys using other diatonic intervals of the seventh
      5. Melodies in major and minor keys using the interval of the tritone
   2. Rhythm
      1. Rhythms including rests, ties, syncopation
      2. Simple meter with its beat value, division, and subdivision
      3. Compound meter with its beat value, division, and subdivision
      4. Two-part drills in simple and compound meter with divisions and subdivision
2. Eartraining
   1. Melodic dictation
      1. Two-part dictation
      2. Short melodies modulating to closely related keys
      3. Melodies containing sequences
   2. Harmonic dictation
      1. Chord quality identification of all diatonic seventh chord types
      2. The dominant seventh chord and the leading tone 7th chord in chorale phrases
      3. Identification of inversion of the dominant seventh chord.
   3. Rhythmic dictation
      1. Divisions and subdivisions in simple and compound meters
      2. Rhythmic patterns in simple time with triplet division
      3. Two-voice rhythms

Movement based exercises: 25-35%
Mandatory Course Components:
Movement based exercises. Additional practice outside of class is required. Most students require 2 hours of outside practice.

 
Equivalent Courses:
None