MUSL 211 Aural Skills/Sight-Singing III

COURSE: AURAL SKILLS/SIGHTSINGING III - MUS 211-200

TIME/PLACE: Fall 2008; 8:30-9:20 TR; CA1088

INSTRUCTOR: Mr. Mike Waddell; e-mail - waddellm@uncw.edu
Office hours 11-12 TR or by appointment (CA1020; 962-7373 winds studio)

TEXT (required): Sightsinging Complete (7th ed.) - Maureen Carr & Bruce Benward
(McGraw-Hill, pub.)
Exploring Theory with Practica Musica - Jeffrey Evans (Ars Nova, pub.)

DESCRIPTION: This course serves as the laboratory to Music Theory III: Class activities include melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic dictation, sightsinging drills, and possible keyboard assignments.

OBJECTIVES: Since this is a sequence course, the student should be advancing in the following areas:
The ability to sing unfamiliar melodies at sight including more advanced rhythms, meters, intervals, and more challenging melodies
An aural recognition of various scales, including chromatic, major, various minors, pentatonics, and whole-tone
Intervallic recognition (singing and dictation)
Harmonic dictation to recognize chord quality and movement, both on the staves as well as using Roman numerals and chord symbols
5. Error detection drills to improve score-reading
6. Keyboard concepts which enhance understanding of the above

GRADING: Four dictation tests and two singing tests are given. Each count 15% of the
final grade. The remaining 10% consists of 10 Practica Musica assignments.

The grading scale is a 10 point scale: 92-100=A; 90-91=A-; 88-89=B+; 82- 88=B; 80-81=B-; 78-79=C+; 72-78=C; 70-71=C-; 68-69=D+; 62-68=D; 60- 61=D-; 0-59=F. Note: There is no extra credit offered.

ATTENDANCE: Three absences only are allowed without penalty. Each unexcused
absence thereafter deducts three points from the final grade.
An excused absence must satisfy the discretion of the instructor.
An excused illness, family emergency, or legal conflict requires documentation (doctor’s note, funeral bulletin, airline ticket, court notice)

Please check with a classmate for any notes you missed.

Promptness to class is expected. Door locks at 8:35.
Latecomers, please take the closest available desk to the door.
Making up an exam requires prior notice - instructor discretion only.

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