Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

This course is required for students wishing to major in music. Students will be required to use MIDI lab outside of class time to build and reinforce skills.

• Material will primarily be presented in a lecture/lab format. Other educational methods will be used to enhance lectures. These will include use of recorded materials, internet sites and computer software.

• A large amount of student to teacher contact should be achieved throughout the term in order to encourage and accomplish successful student development.

• Students will be able to interpret and perform rhythmic notation in simple meters (beat subdivision and longer values).

• Students will be able to interpret and perform rhythmic notation in compound meters (beat subdivision and longer values).

• Students will be able to isolate and accurately notate rhythm of musical examples that include beat subdivisions.

• Students will be able to apply solfege to disjunct diatonic melodies.

• Students will be able to sing diatonic intervals (m2-P8) at sight.

• Students will be able to aurally identify diatonic harmonic intervals (m2-P8).

• Students will be able to sing basic disjunct diatonic melodies at sight using solfege.

• Students will be able to accurately notate disjunct diatonic melodies upon hearing.

• Students will be able to aurally identify chord function (diatonic functions).

• Students will be able to aurally detect errors in notation of disjunct diatonic melodies from the music literature.

• Students will be able to aurally identify triad chord qualities (major, minor, diminished and augmented).

• Students will be able to aurally identify nonharmonic tones within a musical example (suspensions, anticipations and escape tones).

• Students will be able to accurately identify the relationship between two musical phrases. (E.g. repetition vs. sequence)

The instructor should make the criteria for assigning a course grade and for evaluating student progress clear at the beginning of the term. The individual instructor will determine the methods of assessment. Assessment methods may include:

Aural examinations
Singing examinations
Homework assignments
Class participation

Rhythmic Notation
… Beat subdivision in simple and compound meters
… Syncopation
Intervals
… Diatonic interval review (m2-P5)
… Larger intervals (m6-P8)
… The tritone
Harmony
… Inverted major and minor triads
… Augmented triads
… Diminished triads
… Triad function identification
… Cadence identification (half and deceptive cadences)
… Triad arpeggiation
Melody
… Altered minor scales
… Melodies containing the tonic arpeggio.
… Disjunct major melodies
… Disjunct minor melodies
… More arpeggiation within melodies
… Identifying nonharmonic tones (suspension types, anticipations and escape tones)
… Melodic figure identification (tonal sequence and rhythmic repetition)
… Error detection from music literature
COMPETENCIES/SKILLS
The following skills are expected to be achieved to successfully meet the minimum requirement ("C" or "Pass") of the course.

• Accurately perform rhythmic examples that include beat subdivisions at sight.

• Sight sing harmonic diatonic intervals (m2-P8).

• Sight sing diatonic disjunct melodies using solfege.

• Aurally identify harmonic intervals (m2-P8)

• Isolate and notate rhythm of musical examples that include beat subdivision and syncopation.

• Notate diatonic disjunct melodies upon hearing.

• Aurally identify minor scale types.

• Aurally identify triad chord qualities (major, minor, diminished and augmented).

• Aurally identify notational errors in disjunct diatonic melodies from music literature.

• Aurally identify nonharmonic tones (suspensions, anticipations and escape tones).

• Aurally identify harmonic cadences (half and deceptive cadences).