Course Description
Students will learn basic skills for musicianship/sight-singing, aural and rhythmic training. Open to all students, but priority will be given to full-time certificate students.
Offered: Fall
Course Content
- Ear Training
- Identification of selected melodicintervals up to the P8
- Identification of triads in root position
- Identification of scale degrees in major and minor scales
- Simple dictation of rhythms in simple and compound meters
- Simple melodic dictation
- Sight Singing
- Singing of ascending and descending intervals
- Singing of notes in major and minor scales
- Singing of ascending and descending notes in triads
- Singing of tonal melodies containing intervals of seconds, thirds, the P4, the P5 and the P8
- Rhythmic Training
- Development of skills in analyzing rhythmic organization in music
- Duration (time values of notes & rests)
- Pulse
- Meters
- Added beat
- Divided beat
- Crusic versus Anacrusic phrasing
- Singing and tapping of rhythmic patterns
- Method of conducting different meters
- Musicianship Skills
- Basics of vocal production and singing
- Use of a relative pitch labelling system (e.g., movable-doh solfège or scale degree numbers)
- Use of Kodály hand signs
- Melodic and rhythmic error detection
Methods Of Instruction
Presentation of concepts, demonstration of learning strategies and modelling of skills by the instructor, integrated with drills and practice exercises performed by the whole class, small groups and individuals.
Means of Assessment
Regular quizzes (minimum one per week) |
60% |
Individual sight singing mid-term test |
10% |
In-class ear training mid-term test |
10% |
Individual sight singing final test |
10% |
In-class ear training final test |
10% |
|
100% |
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, the successful student should be able to demonstrate a working knowledge of, and skills in, sight singing and ear training.
Textbook Materials
Example:
- Krueger, Carol. Progressive Sight Singing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.