Course

Basic Aural & Sight Singing Skills II

Faculty
Language, Literature & Performing Arts
Department
Music
Course Code
MUSC 1203
Credits
3.00
Semester Length
15 weeks
Max Class Size
25
Method(s) Of Instruction
Lecture
Typically Offered
Winter

Overview

Course Description
Students will continue to develop aural skills, sight singing skills and rhythmic training.
Course Content

  1. Ear Training
    • Identification of melodic and harmonic intervals up to the P8
    • Identification of triads in 1st and 2nd inversions
    • Identification of chords in four-part style in open spacing
    • Rapid identification of notes in major and minor scales
    • Identification of seventh chords in root position
    • Identification of simple harmonic progressions in major and minor modes
    • Rhythmic dictation
    • Melodic dictation
    • Identification of cadence types, phrase relationships, and basic period structures
  2. Sight Singing
    • Singing of ascending and descending intervals
    • Singing of notes of triads in 1st and 2nd inversions
    • Singing of tonal melodies including intervals of 6ths and 7ths.
  3. Rhythmic training
    • Continuing work in analysis of rhythms
    • Singing and tapping of rhythmic patterns
    • Continuing use of conducting patterns
  4. Musicianship skills
    • Increasing fluency with a relative pitch labelling system (e.g., movable-doh solfège or scale degree numbers)
    • Increasing fluency with Kodàly hand signs
    • Melodic and rhythmic error detection and correction

Learning Activities

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 of 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%
Total 100%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, the successful student should be able to demonstrate further development in aural and sight singing skills.

Textbook Materials

Example:

  • Krueger, Carol.  Progressive Sight Singing.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2007.

Requisites

Course Guidelines

Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.

(Current)

Course Transfers

These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca

Institution Transfer Details for MUSC 1203
Athabasca University (AU) AU MUSI 1XX (3)
Capilano University (CAPU) CAPU MUS 212 (1.5) & CAPU MUS 213 (1.5)
Simon Fraser University (SFU) SFU CA 1XX (3)
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) TRU MUSI 2XXX (3)
Trinity Western University (TWU) No credit
University of British Columbia - Okanagan (UBCO) No credit
University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) No credit
University of Northern BC (UNBC) No credit
University of Victoria (UVIC) UVIC MUS 1XX (1.5)
Vancouver Island University (VIU) Individual Audition Required

Course Offerings

Summer 2024