MUS 236 - Music Theory Lab IV

1. Develop sight-singing skills and ear-training ability.
2. Criticize constructively each other’s musical analysis/performance.
3. Simplify and minimize conducting skills.

Course Objectives:

Ear Training:

1. Conduct with ease any music with one, two, three, four, five or six beats per measure and begin showing dynamic shading with the left hand.
2. Identify all authentic church modes, the chromatic, pentatonic and whole tone scales.
3. Continue to improve aurally recognizing intervals.
4. Expand written dictation to melodies of 4 - 8 measures in length
5. Expand rhythmic dictation to incorporate more advanced rhythmic patterns.
6. Aurally identify harmonic functions within a musical composition by determining phrase and periodic lengths, use of sequences and rhythmic repetition of melodic patterns.
7. Expand aural identification of triad quality to seventh chords and their inversions as well as ii7 and vii7 and their inversions.
8. Aurally identifying chord functions (V7, ii7 and vii7), choice of cadences and recognition of non-harmonic tones (soprano voice) in 4-part writing.
9. Further mastery of all modules of software program as prescribed by instructor.

Sight-Singing:

1. Sing all authentic modes and the chromatic scale - upward and downward - with solfege.
2. Achieve greater facility in sight-singing more advanced duets and ensemble selections than those of SSI.
3. Solfege melodies of greater difficulty.
4. Sing major and minor triads as found in figured bass lines (Roman numeral indication).
5. Sing inversions of the V7 chord and begin root position only of the fully diminished and half-diminished seventh chords.
6. Achieve facility in singing non-harmonic tones as specified.
7. Sing (arpeggiate) any triad in any key, given the tonic tone.
8. Continue reading more advanced rhythmic patterns.
9. Begin sight singing atonal, unmetered music.