Aural & Sight Singing Skills II

MUSC 1204 includes continuing practice with all content in MUSC 1104. Increased fluency and accuracy is expected in MUSC 1204.

Content specific to MUSC 1204 includes: 

1. Pitch-related content
• Dictation and singing of melodic patterns in major and minor keys
• More complex work with tonic inference (e.g. melodic dictation where key is not disclosed)
• Singing drills and exercises with intervals and broken chord patterns
• Introduction to 2-part dictation and duet singing
• Diatonic melodies including leaps of 6ths and 7ths
• Diatonic melodies with leaps between members of the subdominant triad and dominant seventh chord 
• Melodies with more complex rhythms
• Chord qualities in major and minor keys
• Identification of major and minor triads in 1^st and 2^nd inversions
• Identifying root-position seventh chords 
• Melodic error detection and correction
• Harmonic progressions with and without bass line and/or soprano transcription
• Cadence identification (authentic, half, plagal, deceptive)
• More complex ensemble singing exercises 
2. Meter and rhythm-related content
• Dictation and performance of rhythmic patterns in both simple and compound meters which include subdivided beats, uneven beat divisions, and syncopation
• More complex work with meter inference (e.g. rhythmic dictation where meter is not disclosed)
• Reading with less-familiar beat units
• Rhythmic error detection and correction
• More complex ensemble rhythm reading demonstrations
3. Musicianship Skills:
• increasing fluency with a relative pitch labelling system (e.g., movable-doh solfège or scale degree numbers)
• Pitch mapping: building a tonal network by aligning solfège syllables with note names in all major and minor keys 
• increasing fluency with Curwen hand signs
• increasing fluency with a rhythm labelling system (e.g. Takadimi syllables)
• Continuing use of conducting patterns