MUSIC 198

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Sight Singing 2

Music College of Fine Arts and Communications

Course Description

Continued development of aural skills through sight singing, rhythm reading, and improvisation; emphasis on arpeggiated melodies and more advanced rhythms.

When Taught

Winter

Min

0.5

Fixed/Max

0.5

Fixed

0

Fixed

1

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Sight singing

Learning Outcome

Students will demonstrate the ability to sight-read diatonic melodies that arpeggiate triads and sevenths in any major or minor key.

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Rhythm reading

Learning Outcome

Students will demonstrate the ability to accurately perform rhythms involving sextuple division, syncopation, and less common beat values while conducting.

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Improvisation

Learning Outcome

Students will demonstrate the ability to improvise idiomatic melodic patterns over given chord changes.