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MUS 312 - Sightsinging and Dictation IV

(1 unit)
Advanced solfege and dictation, rhythmic and melodic. (Formerly MUS 308; implemented Fall 2004.)

Prerequisite(s): MUS 311.

Units of Laboratory/Studio: 1
Offered: Every Spring
Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course:
1. Students will be able to sight-sing advanced chromatic melodies including modulations to distantly-related keys and atonal music.
2. Students will be able to sight-sing melodies featuring irregular beat divisions and polyrhythms and/or in asymmetrical or mixed meters.
3. Students will be able to sight-sing music in multiple parts (canons, duets, chorales, etc.) appropriate to the topics studied.
4. Students will be able to accurately take dictation of chromatic, modulating to distantly related keys, modal, and post-tonal melodies.
5. Students will be able to accurately take harmonic dictation including secondary/applied chords, non-dominant 7th chords, Neapolitan and augmented 6th chords and modulations to distantly related keys.
6. Students will be able to accurately take dictation of rhythms featuring irregular beat divisions and poly-rhythms and/or in asymmetrical or mixed meters.
7. Students will be able to accurately identify and sing the diatonic modes: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian.
8. Students will be able to accurately identify and sing non-diatonic and synthetic scales: whole-tone, pentatonic etc.


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