MUSIC 197
Sight Singing 1
Music
College of Fine Arts and Communications
Course Description
Development of aural skills through sight singing, rhythm reading, and improvisation; emphasis on learning solfège, counting syllables, conducting patterns, and hand signs in the performance of diatonic melodies in major and minor keys and basic rhythms in simple and compound meters.
When Taught
Fall
Grade Rule
Grade Rule 8: A, B, C, D, E, I (Standard grade rule)
Min
0.5
Fixed
0.5
Fixed
0
Fixed
1
Other Prerequisites
Acceptance as a music major.
Title
Sight singing
Learning Outcome
Students will demonstrate the ability to sight-read diatonic melodies that arpeggiate tonic and dominant in any major or minor key.
Title
Rhythm reading
Learning Outcome
Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately perform rhythms with duple divisions, dots, ties, triplets, and duplets in simple and compound meters while conducting.
Title
Improvisation
Learning Outcome
Students will demonstrate the ability to improvise idiomatic melodic and rhythmic patterns in response to a given call.
