MUSA 225 Ear Training and Musicianship IV

Previously MUSC 211P. This is the last of a four-semester sequence of ear training and musicianship courses required of all music majors. Along with MUSA 224, Music Theory IV, the course focuses on sharpening student skills in sight reading, sight singing, and taking dictations.

Credits

1

Prerequisite

MUSA 223 with a grade of C or better, or MUSC 210P with a grade of C or better

Corequisite

MUSA 224

Hours Weekly

2 hours lab and additional practice time weekly

Course Objectives

1. Sight sing melodies which contain chromatic intervals, remote modulation, augmented 6th
   chords, Neapolitan 6th chords, and 20th century materials (changing meter, atonality, remote
   modulation, and modality).
2. Perform rhythms at sight which include duplet division of dotted note values, triplet division of
   undotted note values, changing meter and time signatures, and hemiola.
3. Take dictation of melodies which contain modulation to remote keys, modality, and
   nondiatonic tones.
4. Take dictation of harmonic progressions which contain secondary dominants, augmented 6th
   and Neapolitan 6th chords, and modulation to foreign keys.
   
5. Take simple four-part dictation.

Course Objectives

1. Sight sing melodies which contain chromatic intervals, remote modulation, augmented 6th
   chords, Neapolitan 6th chords, and 20th century materials (changing meter, atonality, remote
   modulation, and modality).
2. Perform rhythms at sight which include duplet division of dotted note values, triplet division of
   undotted note values, changing meter and time signatures, and hemiola.
3. Take dictation of melodies which contain modulation to remote keys, modality, and
   nondiatonic tones.
4. Take dictation of harmonic progressions which contain secondary dominants, augmented 6th
   and Neapolitan 6th chords, and modulation to foreign keys.
   
5. Take simple four-part dictation.