MUSI 1116:
This course covers sight singing, rhythmic, melodic and harmonic dictation within diatonic harmony.
Corequisites
This course is required for all music majors.
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When an instructor feels that a student has been absent to such a degree as to invalidate the learning experience, the instructor may recommend to the Vice President of Instruction that the student be withdrawn from the course. Instructors may seek to withdraw students for non-attendance after they have accumulated the following number of absences:
Fall or spring semesters:
3 or more class meeting times per week - 5 absences
2 class meeting times per week - 3 absences
1 class meeting per week - 2 absences
The student is responsible for seeing that he or she has been officially withdrawn from a class. A student who stops attendance in a class without officially withdrawing from that class will be given a failing grade; consequently, the student must follow official withdrawal procedures in the Admissions/Records Office.
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No use of Generative AI permitted.
This option assumes that all work submitted by students will be generated by the students themselves, whether they are working individually or in groups. Students should not have another person or entity do the writing of any portion of an assignment, which includes hiring a person or a company to write assignments and/or using artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT. Use of any AI-generated content in this course qualifies as academic dishonesty and violates Panola College’s standards of academic integrity.
Singing tonal music in treble and bass clefs, and aural study of elements of music, such as scales, intervals and chords, and dictation of basic rhythm, melody and diatonic harmony.
After studying all materials and resources presented in the course, the student will be able to:
- Apply a method of sight singing to diatonic melodies in treble and bass clefs, and oral demonstration of simple rhythms.
- Classify elements of music, such as scales, intervals and chords.
- Transcribe aural rhythms and diatonic melodies.
- Transcribe and analyze aural basic harmonic progressions.
- Read and reproduce rhythms in various simple meters.
Students in all sections of this course will learn the following content:
- Read, sing, dictate and aurally identify major and minor scales
- Read, sing and dictate major and minor melodies outlining the fundamental triads.
- Read and dictate rhythm in both simple and compound meters
- Read, sing, dictate and aurally identify intervals, both melodic and harmonic
- Aurally identify and dictate chord progressions
This course is offered in a face-to-face setting with classroom activities. Supplemental technology is used to enhance classroom instruction. Attendance is mandatory.
Major Assignments/Assessments
The following items are assigned and assessed during the semester and used to calculate the students' final grade. In-class assignments and assessments cannot be made up. If you will be absent, let the instructor know before the day of class so that arrangements can be made for you to receive the information. Arrangements are at the discretion of the instructor.
- Weekly Assignments
- Classroom Participation
- Homework
- Projects
- Aural tests
- Written tests
- Sight singing tests
- Final project, if applicable
The grading for this course is as follows:
- Assignments 50%
- Assessments 40%
- Final 10%
- Staff paper
- Notebook paper
- Pencil
- Books and worksheets per instructor
- Courses conducted via video conferencing may be recorded and shared for instructional purposes by the instructor.
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- The Accommodations & Disability Support (A&DS) Office at Panola College provides and facilitates support services and accommodations for students with disabilities. The A&DS office works under the federal guidelines included in Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the American with Disabilities Act. Please contact the Accommodations & Disability Support (A&DS) Office located in the Charles C. Matthews Student Center or go to https://www.panola.edu/disabilitysupport for more information.
- Withdrawing from a course is the student’s responsibility. Students who do not attend class and who do not withdraw will receive the grade earned for the course.
- Student Handbook (located in the Panola College Catalog)