MUS 216 - Aural Comprehension IV

Description
This course is an advanced continuation of the aural skills learned in MUS 215. Emphasis is on singing, aural identification and dictation of scales, intervals, harmonic progressions, melodic patterns, rhythmic patterns, triads and seventh chords. Development of intermediate/advanced sightsinging techniques as well as skills in notating performed melodic and harmonic musical examples. Music and materials from the modern period predominate in this class. Additional practice is required outside of class.

Credit Hours: 2
Contact Hours: 2
Prerequisites/Other Requirements: C or Higher in the following courses: MUS 213 and MUS 215
English Prerequisite(s): None
Math Prerequisite(s): None
Course Corequisite(s): MUS 214
Academic Program Prerequisite: None
Consent to Enroll in Course: No Department Consent Required
Dual Enrollment Allowed?: Yes
Course Fees: $10.00
Number of Times Course can be taken for credit: 1
Programs Where This Course is a Requirement:
Associate of Music, A.M., Music, A.M. (Western Michigan University)

Other Courses Where This Course is a Prerequisite: None
Other Courses Where this Course is a Corequisite: None
Other Courses Where This course is included in within the Description: None

General Education Requirement:
None
General Education Learner Outcomes (GELO):
NA
Course Learning Outcomes:

Notate, perform at sight, and move rhythms in both simple, compound, mixed, and complex meters that include syncopation, ties, and rests utilizing beat, division, and subdivisions in common and uncommon meter signatures.
Sing, identify, and transcribe alternate scales, compound intervals, and 7th chords and their inversions.
Sing and transcribe tonal melodies that modulate to closely related keys, that modulate within a two-phrase period, and that include chromatic alterations.
Sing and transcribe atonal and neotonal melodies in both simple, compound, and complex meters. Melodies may include borrowed divisions, changing meter, complex meter, or hemiola.
Improvise a 2-phrase modulating period, and then modulate back to the original key.
Transcribe 4-part chorales with diatonic and chromatic harmony.

Course Outline:

Rhythm:
1. Notate, perform at sight, and move rhythms in both simple and compound meters that include syncopation, ties, and rests utilizing beat, division, and subdivisions in common and uncommon meter signatures.
2. Perform at sight and notate rhythms in both simple and compound meter with borrowed divisions of multiple divisions.
3. Perform at sight and notate rhythms in complex meters.
4. Perform at sight and notate rhythms in mixed meters.
Melody:
1. Sing, identify, and transcribe all modes, whole tone, pentatonic, octatonic, augmented, and Lydian flat 7 scales, while demonstrating the dichord sung (half step, whole step, augmented 2nd).
2. Identify and transcribe all compound intervals played ascending, descending, and harmonically.
3. Sing and transcribe 8-note atonal tone rows.
4. Sing and transcribe tonal melodies that modulate to closely related keys, that modulate within a two-phrase period.
5. Sing and transcribe tonal melodies that include chromatic alterations.
6. Sing and transcribe atonal and neotonal melodies in both simple, compound, and complex meters. Melodies may include borrowed divisions, changing meter, complex meter, or hemiola.
7. Improvise a 2-phrase modulating period, and then modulate back to the original key.
Harmony
1. Sing and identify all qualities of 7th chords, and their inversions.
2. Sing and resolve chromatically altered chords (applied dominants, borrowed chords, neapolitans, augmented sixth chords) in given progressions.
3. Identify diatonic and chromatic harmony in 4-part chorales.
4. Transcribe 4-part chorales with diatonic and chromatic harmony.

Approved for Online and Hybrid Delivery?:
No
Instructional Strategies:
Daily drill and repetition using Dalcrozian strategies: 60-90%

Sightsinging and Sight rhythms: 10-25%

Mandatory Course Components:
Movement based exercises. Additional practice outside of class is required. Most students require 2 hours of outside practice.
Equivalent Courses:
None

Accepted GRCC Advanced Placement (AP) Exam Credit: None
AP Min. Score: NA
Name of Industry Recognize Credentials: None

Course prepares students to seek the following external certification:
No
Course-Specific Placement Test: None
Course Aligned with ARW/IRW Pairing: N/A

Mandatory Department Assessment Measures:
None

Course Type:
Program Requirement- Offering designed to meet the learning needs of students in a specific GRCC program.
Course Format:
Lecture - 1:1
Total Lecture Hours Per Week: 2
People Soft Course ID Number: 100313
Course CIP Code: 50.09
Maximum Course Enrollment: 20
General Room Request: A large open room with a piano

High School Articulation Agreements exist?: No
If yes, with which high schools?: NA
Non-Credit GRCC Articulation Agreement With What Area: No
Identify the Non Credit Programs this Course is Accepted: NA

School: School of Liberal Arts
Department: Music
Discipline: MUS
Faculty Credential Requirements:
Master’s Degree (GRCC general requirement), Other (list below)
Faculty Credential Requirement Details:
Instructors must be successful music educators who have a strong background in aural comprehension, sightsinging and dictation. Additionally, strong choral and piano skills are recommended prior to enrolling in this course.

Major Course Revisions: N/A
Last Revision Date Effective: 20250302T19:47:30
Course Review & Revision Year: 2029-2030