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Course Syllabus

MUSC 2140 Sight Sing/Ear Training IV

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Music
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 2; Lab: 0
  • Prerequisites: Completion of MUSC 2130 with a grade of C-
  • Corequisites: MUSC 2120
  • Semesters Offered: Spring
  • Semester Approved: Spring 2026
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2030
  • End Semester: Fall 2031
  • Optimum Class Size: 15
  • Maximum Class Size: 20

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, and improvise music. This course must be taken in sequence, and usually concurrently with MUSC 2120.

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 sight sing melodies based on material covered.
  2. Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to sight read rhythm based on the material covered.
  3. Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to complete a transcription project.
  4. Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to notate and identify two intervals after a given pitch.
  5. Upon successful completion of this class students will be able to notate melodies of intermediate to advanced difficulty.
  6. Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to notate rhythms of intermediate to advanced difficulty.
  7. Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to notate harmonic progressions of increasing difficulty including Roman Numeral Analysis and Chord Symbols.

Course Content

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