Student Learning Outcomes

• Dictate, in correct music notation and Roman numerals, the chords, soprano and bass for phrase-length four-part progressions that make use of secondary function chords.
• Dictate, in correct music notation, rhythm pieces and patterns that employ a compound beat and create syncopation.
• Dictate, in correct music notation, melodies and melodic patterns that make use of non-essential chromaticism, secondary function chromaticism and diatonic descending fifths sequences
• Students will be able to sing melodies at sight that incorporate skips through diatonic triads and raised chromatic tones used in a passing or neighboring capacity.
• Students will be able to transcribe the soprano voice, bass voice and harmony (using Roman numerals and figures) of a six-chord four-part progression played four times at the piano. This progression may use diatonic triads and sevenths in any inversion. It may also use secondary dominants, with or without sevenths, in any inversion.
• Perform at sight rhythm pieces and patterns in simple meters that use a half note or an eighth note beat.
• Perform at sight rhythm pieces and patterns in compound meters that use a dotted half note or dotted eighth note beat.
• Perform at sight rhythm pieces and patterns in simple meters that create syncopation at the beat and divisional level.
• Perform at sight rhythm pieces and patterns in compound meters that create syncopation.
• Sing memorized melodies, melodic patterns and duets outlining diatonic descending fifths sequences using moveable-do solfege.
• Sing memorized melodies, melodic patterns and duets with non-essential chromaticism, secondary function chromaticism and modulations to closely-related keys using moveable-do solfege.
• Sing at sight melodies, melodic patterns and duets outlining diatonic descending fifths sequences using moveable-do solfege.
• Sing at sight melodies, melodic patterns and duets with non-essential chromaticism, secondary function chromaticism and modulations to the dominant or, in minor keys, the relative major.
• Aurally recognize the quality and bass position of major, minor and diminished triads.
• Aurally recognize the bass position of major-minor seventh chords.
• Dictate, in correct music notation, rhythm pieces and patterns that employ a compound beat and create syncopation.