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BARTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE COURSE SYLLABUS

I. GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION

Course Number: MUSI 1020 Course Title: Aural Skills II Credit Hours: 2 Prerequisite: MUSI 1016 Aural Skills I Division and Discipline: Liberal Arts and Sciences/Humanities/Music Course Description: The second of four courses in aural skills designed primarily for students interested in developing aural perception of music and skill in sight singing. Basic activities include student dictation of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic exercises and the development of speed and accuracy in sight singing. Aural Skills II is required for all music majors, and taken concurrently with Harmony II.

II. INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION

III. COLLEGE POLICIES

Students and faculty of Barton Community College constitute a special community engaged in the process of education. The College assumes that its students and faculty will demonstrate a code of personal honor that is based upon courtesy, integrity, common sense, and respect for others both within and outside the classroom.

Plagiarism on any academic endeavors at Barton Community College will not be tolerated. The student is responsible for learning the rules of, and avoiding instances of, intentional or unintentional plagiarism. Information about academic integrity is located in the Student Handbook.

The College reserves the right to suspend a student for conduct that is determined to be detrimental to the College educational endeavors as outlined in the College Catalog, Student Handbook, and College Policy & Procedure Manual. [Most up-to-date documents are available on the College webpage.]

Any student seeking an accommodation under the provisions of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) is to notify Student Support Services via email at [email protected].

IV. COURSE AS VIEWED IN THE TOTAL CURRICULUM

At Barton Community College, this class may be used either as an elective for all degrees, as a humanities course for the Associate in General Studies or Associate in Applied Science degrees, or as a performance course to satisfy one credit hour of the two credit hour Physical Education, Health, performance requirement for the A.A. or A.S. degrees. However, this course may only transfer as an elective at other transfer institutions. General education requirements vary among institutions, and even among departments, colleges, or programs within an institution. Also, these requirements may change from time to time and without notification. Therefore, it shall be the student's responsibility to obtain relevant information from intended transfer institutions during his/her tenure at Barton Community College to insure that he/she enrolls in the most appropriate set of courses for the transfer program. This course transfers to most all Regents’ institutions in Kansas and is equivalent to MUS 184 Aural Skills II at Fort Hays State University,

1 MTHC 0114 Dictation & Sight-Reading II at the University of Kansas, and MUSC 130 Aural Skills 2 at Wichita State University. Students are placed in the university's aural sequence by a placement test at Emporia State University, Pittsburg State University, and Washburn University.

Sight singing and ear training are established disciplines whose importance has been recognized by all professional musicians past and present. While nearly everyone can hear a piece and enjoy it to some extent, the musician must also know what he or she is hearing, and be skilled at reading the music at first sight. The musician fully realizes that success as a performer or teacher/director is inevitably limited and regulated by one's proficiency in these skills. The student will need to understand that the development process begins in this course and, for the serious musician, continues as a life-long preoccupation.

V. ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING / COURSE OUTCOMES

Barton Community College is committed to the assessment of student learning and to quality education. Assessment activities provide a means to develop an understanding of how students learn, what they know, and what they can do with their knowledge. Results from these various activities guide Barton, as a learning college, in finding ways to improve student learning.

1. Ear Training: The student will develop skills in aural perception that will allow the student to visualize the sound of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic patterns played by the instructor or computer, and correctly translate them to music notation. a. Aurally recognize and identify intervals, scales, and chord types typical of traditional harmony. b. Notate simple dictation of melodic lines. c. Identify errors in a given melodic line. d. Identify correct harmonic chords that would accompany a melodic line. e. Identify possible chord progressions when given soprano and bass lines. f. Identify errors aurally in four-part excerpts. g. Notate simple rhythmic dictation. h. Identify correct rhythms from four possible multiple-choice selections. i. Identify errors in simple rhythmic excerpts.

2. Sight Singing: The student will be evaluated on their developed ability to sing melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic patterns with accuracy. a. Sing all intervals, scales, triads covered in the course. b. Sing all melodies covered in the course using numbers. c. Sing or perform all rhythm drills presented.

VI. INSTRUCTOR'S EXPECTATIONS OF STUDENTS IN CLASS

VII. TEXTBOOKS AND OTHER REQUIRED MATERIALS

VIII. REFERENCES

IX. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION AND EVALUATION

2 X. ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS

XI. COURSE OUTLINE