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Course Syllabus

MUSC 2130 Sight Sing/Ear Training III

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Music
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 2; Lab: 0
  • Prerequisites: Completion of MUSC 1140 with a grade of C- or better or permission of instructor
  • Corequisites: MUSC 2110
  • Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
  • Semester Approved: Spring 2026
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2030
  • End Semester: Fall 2031
  • Optimum Class Size: 15
  • Maximum Class Size: 25

Course Description

This course is required of music majors. Students develop and improve the ability to sing music at sight, notate melodies and rhythms as dictated, identify and notate chordal harmonies as dictated, improve keyboard skills, and improvise music. This course must be taken in sequence with other sight singing/ear training courses, and usually concurrently with MUSC 2110.

Justification

This course, required of music majors in all university programs certified by the National Association of Schools in Music (NASM), develops musical skills expected of all BMCM graduates. Similar courses are taught in all NASM accredited music programs.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to notate and identify two intervals after a given pitch.
  2. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to dictate rhythms of intermediate difficulty.
  3. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to dictate melodies of intermediate difficulty.
  4. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to dictate harmonic progressions of intermediate difficulty including Roman Numeral analysis and chord symbols.
  5. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to sight-read melodies and rhythms similar to the material being studied
  6. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to present prepared melodies and rhythms from a range of exercises.

Course Content

This course will draw on knowledge and skill building from the following areas:• sight singing of unfamiliar melodies• dictation of intermediate melodies• identifying 2 intervals after a given pitch• dictation of intermediate rhythms• dictation of intermediate harmonic progressions• transcription projects• sight reading of unfamiliar rhythms• preparing melodies and rhythms of intermediate difficulty