MUS 225 - Sight-reading and Ear Training (Second Term)

2 Credit(s)

Course continues to solidify an understanding of secondary dominant harmonies while teaching students how to begin to identify various compositional forms by ear. Students practice singing, conducting, and dictation exercises written in asymmetrical meters, as well as hemiolas, modal mixture, Neapolitan 6th chords, and augmented 6th chords. Further work on modulations to closely related keys are discussed and practiced while modulations to remote keys are introduced. Designed to be taken with MUS 212 and MUS 215 concurrently.

Prerequisite: MUS 224  
Corequisite: MUS 212  and MUS 215  

Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate singing skills with accuracy for complex rhythmic and chromatic melodic material at an intermediate level (CLO 1.3, 1.5, 5.3)

2. Demonstrate singing skills with accuracy for complex rhythmic and melodic duets at an intermediate level (CLO 3.2)

3. Notate complex rhythms, melodies, and chromatic harmonic progressions with accuracy at an intermediate level (CLO 1.3, 3.5, 5.2)

4. Conduct basic patterns to facilitate learning complex rhythms and melodies in course (CLO 4.2)

5. Identify and sing intervals and chromatic chords with accuracy at an intermediate level (CLO 1.1)

6. Identify and dictate chromatic diatonic progressions with accuracy at an intermediate level (CLO 5.2, 5.3)

7. Identify formal structures in music through listening and analysis (CLO 1.1, 3.4, 5.2, 5.3)