COURSE : APPLICATION OF AURAL AND KEYBOARD SKILLS - MUS 300-200

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

INSTRUCTOR : Mr. Mike Waddell ; home phone # 452-1840; e-mail - waddellm@uncw.edu

Office hours 10-11 TR or by appointment (CA1020; 962-7373 winds studio)

TEXT (required): Introduction to Sightsinging and Ear Training (2nd ed.-out of print)

Bruce Benward/Maureen A. Carr/Timothy Kolosick (Wm. Brown, pub.)

DESCRIPTION : This course serves as the laboratory to Music Theory IV: Class activities include melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic dictation, and sightsinging drills. The level of difficulty increases from the previous semester.

OBJECTIVES : Since this is a sequence course, the student should be advancing in the following areas:

1. The ability to sing unfamiliar melodies at sight including more advanced rhythms, meters, intervals, and more challenging melodies

2. An aural recognition of various scales, including chromatic, major, various minors, pentatonics, and whole-tone

3. Harmonic dictation to recognize chord quality and movement, both on the staves as well as using Roman numerals and chord symbols

4. Error detection drills to improve score-reading

5. Keyboard concepts which enhance understanding of the above

GRADING : Four dictation tests (lowest grade dropped) and two singing tests are given

with each counting 20% of the final grade. See reverse page.

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, court notice, etc.)

Please check with a classmate for any notes you missed.

Promptness to class is expected.

Latecomers, please take the closest available desk to the door.
Making up an exam requires prior notice - instructor discretion only.

POLICIES : The textbook, notebook, and staff paper should always be brought to class.

Cell phones and pagers must be turned off during class.

All tests must be taken in pencil.

No food or drink, please!

Daily practice outside of class is extremely important. Be persistent.

 

MUS 211 OVERVIEW - SPRING 2008

 

Test #1……. Thursday, January 24; dictation

Test #2……. Thursday, February 14; dictation

Test #3……. TR, February 26/28; sightsinging

Test #4…… .Tuesday, March 18; dictation

Test #5…… .Tuesday, April 15; dictation

Exam ……...Thursday, May 1, 8-11; sightsinging

 

Important dates :

Tuesday, February 26...Last day to receive a W

Week of March 3……..Spring Break

Thursday, March 20…..Easter Break

Thursday, April 24……Last class day

 

* UNCW practices a zero tolerance policy for violence and harassment of any kind.

For emergencies contact UNCW CARE at 962-2273, Campus Police at 962-3184, or Wilmington Police at 911.

For University and community resources visit http://uncw.edu/wrc/crisis.htm. ”

 

The University of North Carolina at Wilmington is committed to the proposition that the pursuit of truth requires the presence of honesty among all involved. It is therefore this institution’s stated policy that no form of dishonesty among its faculty or students will be tolerated.