MUS 2102: Aural Skills III, section 001
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
8:00-9:50, 2.03.08 ARTS
Dr. David Heuser Office: 3.02.20 ARTS; Office Phone: 458-5321; email: david.heuser@utsa.edu
Office Hours: Monday 10:00am-11:00am; Wednesday 3:00pm-4:00pm; Thursday
2:00pm-3:00pm; Friday 9:00am-10:00am or by appointment
Prerequisite: successful completion of
Basic Skills II
Web page: http://music.utsa.edu/electron/aural3.htm
Required Textbooks and Materials (always bring to class):
Robert Ottman,
Nancy Rogers, Music for Sightsinging (sventh edition)
staff paper, pencils (not pens)
Blank CD-R (for project)
Course Description:
Aural Skills III is designed to develop your ear training and sightsinging skills, increasing your aural understanding of
music. Classroom time is primarily for drill; most of the work you will do for
this course will be done outside of class. The group laboratory sessions will
provide a good opportunity to practice your dictation skills.
Goals of the Course:
After going through this course, the student should be able to:
- aurally identify all intervals
- aurally identify all diatonic triads and some diatonic seventh chords in
major and minor keys in any inversion
- aurally identify diatonic non-harmonic tones
- perform harmonic dictation writing
bass and soprano lines using all diatonic triads in any inversion
- perform melodic dictation on diatonic and chromatic melodies (major and
minor)
- perform rhythmic dictation on rhythms containing small subdivisions of the
beat and borrowed rhythms.
- sight sing simple chromatic melodies in major and
minor keys
- convincingly
modulate while singing
- perform rhythmic exercises containing small subdivisions of the beat, borrowed
rhythms, and changing meters.
- improvise musical phrases
Grading and course policies
Final grades will be determined by this formula:
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3 Sight singing exams: |
30% |
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Daily Sight singing/Rhythmic performance work: |
15% |
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5 Dictation quizzes: |
45% |
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Transcription project: |
5% |
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Homework: |
5% |
Attendance:
Attendance is essential and will be taken at the beginning of each class. It
will be factored into your grade by the following formula: zero absences will add
2 points to your Final average; 1 absence will add 1 point; each absence
after 2 will lower your final grade by 2 points. Being late to class
will also lower your grade: two tardies equal one
absence. If a student is absent more than 8 times for any reason during the
semester, the instructor, at his discretion, may assign a final grade of F for
the course.
ALL absences and tardies count. Due to my inability to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate excuses, I choose not to deal with them (excuses, that is). The two absences you are allowed (a week of classes) are expected to be legitimate (why would you not come to class if you were able?). The only exception to this policy would be a case of prolonged forced absence, such as would be caused by a serious injury requiring hospitalization, or the like. In these cases, documentation is required (of course); otherwise, I do not wish to be shown doctor's notes, letters from funeral directors or a mechanic's bill.
I reserve the right to count you as absent or tardy if you habitually (more than twice) come to class without the required materials (textbook, anthology, staff paper, etc.).
Make-up Work: Students are expected to make up all
work missed. If you are absent, it is your
responsibility to get the notes from a classmate and to come to my office to
pick up your homework. I am willing to meet with you and discuss the course
material only after you have taken appropriate steps to get caught up on your
own. Do not make my office your first stop when you are trying to find out
what you missed in class.
Daily
Sightsinging and Rhythmic Performance: Each week you are assigned melodies and
rhythms from the Ottman’s Music for Sightsinging. You should prepare these exercises for the
first class day (usually Monday) of the week they are assigned. I will call on
students to perform melodies and rhythms every day except test days, and these
performances will be graded. If you are unprepared you will receive a grade of
“F” for that day.
Homework will be accepted past the day it is due, but not for a grade. Late homework may not always be returned to you in a timely manner.
Exams: Make up exams for scheduled exams will be allowed only if notice is given prior to the scheduled time.
Class Deportment: Students are expected to assist in maintaining a
classroom environment that is conducive to learning. To assure all students
have the opportunity to gain from time spent in class,
students are prohibited from engaging in any form of distraction. Inappropriate
behavior in the classroom shall result, minimally, in a request to leave the
class. Examples of inappropriate behavior include the use of cellular phones or
beepers, eating in the classroom, prolonged chattering, excessive tardiness, sleeping,
and overt inattentiveness.
Cheating: Cheating in any form will not be tolerated. All infractions will be reported to Student Judicial Affairs and prosecuted to the maximum extent allowed by the university. Any work you hand in is expected to be your work and your work only; claiming someone else’s work as your own is cheating.
Communication: If you need
to contact me, there are a number of ways to do it. I am usually in my office,
and will often be available to see students outside of posted office hours. If
my door is closed, please check the schedule next to my door before knocking to
make sure you are not interrupting a lesson or lunch. You can also reach me via
my office phone and email, which are listed above and on the web (http://music.utsa.edu/Faculty/heuser/index.html).
Emails should be courteous and formal, with proper spelling, capitalization,
etc., and with a subject line that clearly states the purpose of the message.
Ambiguous subject lines may result in an email being deleted as suspected spam.
All Music Department faculty also have mailboxes
located in the music office (3.01.58). If you would like to put something in my
mailbox, give it to the office staff and ask them to place it there. If you
have a concern, problem, question, issue or whatever, the best thing you can do
is talk to me about it. Stay in touch!
*In order to pass Music 2102 a
passing grade must be made on the final*
Aural Skills III Schedule
– Subject to Change
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Topics |
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Week 1, August 23 |
Review Solfege; Review dictation |
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Week 2, August 28, 30 |
Ottman/Rogers - review melodies (minor melodies marked
“m”) 11.27m, 11.28m, 11.30m, 11.31m, 12.1, 12.2, 12.7, 12.13, 12.23, 12.25m |
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Week 3, September 4, 6 |
Review melodies
12.33, 12.34, 12.40 – 12.42, 12.44, 12.45, 12.46, 12.53m Dictation Quiz No. 1 – Thursday,
September 6 |
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Week 4, September 11, 13 |
Review melodies 12.47, 12.48,12.51, 12.52m, 12.55, 12.56, 12.59, 12.60m Review rhythms 10.14 – 10.18; 10.42 – 10.50 |
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Week 5, September 18, 20 |
Sightsinging Test No. 1 - Tuesday, September 18 New Singing Element: Chromaticism Melodies 13.1 –
13.7 |
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Week 6, September 25, 27 |
Melodies 13.8
– 13.14 |
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Week 7, October 2, 4 |
Dictation Quiz No. 2 – Tuesday, October 2 Melodies 13.18
– 13.22 |
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Week 8, October 9, 11 |
Melodies 13.27 –
13.33 |
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Week 9, October 16, 18 |
Melodies 13.34,
13.36, 13.40, 13.41, 13.50, 13.51 Dictation Quiz No. 3 – Thursday, October 18 |
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Week 10, October 23, 25 |
Melodies 13.55, 13.56, 13.57 13.59, 13.63 – 13.65, 13.69 Rhythms 15.40 – 15.49;
15.54 – 15.59 NOTE: October 23: Final drop day |
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Week 11, October 30, November 1 |
Sightsinging Test No. 2 – Tuesday, October 30 New Singing Element: Modulation Melodies 14.1,
14.3, modulation exercise handout |
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Week 12, November 6, 8 |
Melodies 14.4
-14.6, 14.9, 14.10 Dictation Quiz No. 4 – Thursday, November 8 |
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Week 13, November 13, 15 |
Transcription
Project Assigned Melodies 14.2,
14.7, 14.28, 14.29, 14.42, la minor |
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Week 14, November 20, 22 |
Melodies 14.8,
14.13, 14.17, 14.23 |
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Week 15, November 27, 29 |
Review for final |
Final: Sight Singing Exam
3 -Thursday, December 6, 2007 from 7:30AM to 10:00AM.
Copyright © 1999,David Heuser
Revised - August 2007
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