Musicianship I - TCSU MUS 160

Description

This course, a concurrent laboratory experience with Music Theory I, includes skills development in ear training and sight singing. The course includes melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic performance, analysis and dictation.

Recommended Preparation or Corequisites

Music Theory I and Class Piano I (or equivalent)

Minimum Unit Requirements

1 semester unit

Course Topics

Musicianship may be taught successfully in many different ways. The activities listed below are suggestions for ways to achieve the desired student learning objectives. Probably no individual course will include all of these activities.

Prepare, sight-sing, and transpose major and minor melodies featuring leaps from the I triad.

Analyze melodies for tendency tones, arpeggiations of triads, neighbor tones, etc.

Perform exercises in one or more parts (canons, duets, chorales, sing and play the piano, sing and clap rhythms, etc.)

Analyze and describe phrase structure within simple melodic forms

Practice melodic dictation in a variety of major and minor keys, and a variety of tempos and meter signatures

Take dictation in two parts (two-voice counterpoint)

Practice common melodic patterns (arpeggios, passing tones, neighbors, etc.)

Emphasize hearing of tendency tones and hearing melodies in a harmonic context

Practice identification of intervals, ascending, descending, and harmonic

Sing intervals

Practice identification of triad and 7th-chord qualities and inversions and sopranos

Sing arpeggios of triads and 7th chords

Given a chord, sing the bass and soprano

Practice rhythmic dictation in a variety of meter signatures and tempos

Practice common rhythmic patters using division of the beat

Perform and sight-read rhythmic exercises in two and three parts by:
a. counting one part while tapping the other(s)
b. performing one part while tapping the other(s)

Perform single line rhythm and sight-singing exercises while conducting

Do exercises to detect errors in rhythm, pitch, and/or solfege

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

Hear music with understanding, recognizing patterns and musical function. To demonstrate this ability, by the end of the course, students should be able to:
a. take dictation of melodies at least as difficult as Ottman, 6th ed., #282
b. take dictation of rhythms at least as difficult as Ottman 6th ed. #42, 232
c. aurally identify all intervals - ascending, descending, and harmonic
d. aurally identify qualities, inversions, and soprano note of triads
e. aurally identify qualities of 7th chords

Audiate" a musical score. To demonstrate this ability, by the end of the course students should be able to:
a. perform rhythms at least as complex as Ottman 6th ed. #s 23, 27, 44, 186, 189, 229, 241
b. sight sing melodies at least as difficult as Ottman #290

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