MUSIC 197

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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

Min

0.5

Fixed/Max

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.

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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.

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Improvisation

Learning Outcome

Students will demonstrate the ability to improvise idiomatic melodic and rhythmic patterns in response to a given call.