MUS 135 - Music Theory Lab I

1. Develop sight-singing and ear-training skills.
2. Understand the importance of listening.
3. Demonstrate conducting skills.

Course Objectives:
Ear Training:

1. Conduct basic rhythmic patterns in simple and compound meters with emphasis on music with one, two, three or four beats per measure.
2. Identify major scales and the three forms of minor scales
3. Aurally recognize both harmonic and melodic intervals (upward and downward) within the octave.
4. Written dictation of simple melodies (4 measures in length) in treble or bass clef, simple or compound meter and using rhythms which incorporate dotted divisions of the beat.
5. Written dictation of basic rhythmic patterns (as found in Ottman).
6. Compose a written consequent phrase after seeing and/or hearing an antecedent phrase.
7. Aural identification of triad quality - Major, minor, augmented, diminished - in root, first, and second inversions.
8. Achieve maximum mastery of software program, MusicTheory.net, Goodear.com, and Thetamusictrainer.net as prescribed by instructor.

Sight-Singing:

1. Speak rhythmic syllables while conducting in simple and compound meters.
2. Sing major and minor scales - upward and downward - first with numbers,then with solfege.
3. Achieve facility in sight reading any interval within the minor 10th with both numbers and solfege.
4. Make use of conducting patterns in all rhythmic reading (Ottman).
5. Sing all major and harmonic minor triads in inversions, first with numbers, then with solfege (1-3-5, 3-5-1-, 5-1-3).
6. Sing the dominant seventh chord in inversion, as well (5-7-2-4, 7-2-4-5, 2-4-5-7, 4-5-7-2).
7. Add borrowed divisions to rhythmic readings.
8. Sing any factor of a major or minor scale when given the tonic.
9. Using appropriate syllables, solfege or rhythmic, perform with reasonable ease.