Presentation of concepts, demonstration of learning strategies and modelling of skills by the instructor, integrated with drills and practice exercises by the students. Skill reinforcement through assigned use of auxiliary online and/or computer aural skills resources.
- Aural Recognition
- Melodies in various phrase groupings including double periods, with chromatic tones, and modulation to closely- and distantly-related keys.
- Modulating melodies in two-part textures.
- Soprano and bass factors, quality, and position of chords in progressions which include: borrowed chords, the Neapolitan Sixth chord, augmented sixth chords, and modulation.
- Complex rhythmic patterns including asymmetrical and changing meters.
- Sight Performance
- Melodies which contain more complex rhythms, chromatic tones, and modulations.
- Complex rhythmic exercises including irregular beat divisions.
- Musicianship Skills Performance
- Modulating melodic fragments
- Broken chord patterns.
- Ensemble exercises emphasizing multi-part awareness including canons and sing-and-plays.
At the end of the course the successful student should be able to demonstrate satisfactory skill and musicianship in aural recognition and sight performance of tonal melodies, harmonies, and rhythms as outlined in Course Content.
| Sight Singing Tests (minimum 4) | 40% |
| Melodic, Rhythmic and Harmonic Dictation Tests (minimum 4) | 50% |
| Weekly homework assignments | 10% |
| TOTAL | 100% |
N.B.: This course includes final testing worth more than 10% during the last 14 days of classes. A standing variance to the Evaluation Policy was granted by Education Council on March 21, 2011.
The latest editions of required texts, such as the following:
Ear Training Textbook
- Horvit, Michael, Timothy Koozin and Robert Nelson. Music for Ear Training (CD-ROM and Workbook). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.
Or
- Karpinski, Gary S. Manual for Ear Training and Sight Singing. New York: W. W. Norton. Plus access card to online recordings.
Sight Singing Textbook
- Berkowitz, Sol, Gabriel Fontrier, Leo Kraft, Perry Goldstein and Edward Smaldone. A New Approach to Sight Singing. New York: W. W. Norton.