MUS 124 - Music Theory/Piano/Sightsinging Part II

Institution:

Point Park University

Subject:

MUSIC

Description:

A continuation of music theory studies through written and aural demonstration, keyboard skills, and sight-singing with particular attention to those skills necessary for musical theatre. Opportunities for private piano study are available upon course completion. Prerequisites: MUS 123 Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to: (1) Recognize, explain, and apply music notation symbols and concepts. (2) Improve recognition (aural, visual) and performance (singing, playing, counting, clapping) of intervallic, rhythmic, and tonal patterns at sight, including more complex rhythmic patterns. (3) Recognize and sing descending intervals at sight; continue singing ascending intervals, major scales. Sing more complex short melodies at sight using scale degree numbers in the movable do system (4) Read and notate minor key signatures and scales; sing and play minor scales accurately; explain relationships between major and minor scales. (5) Play, write, and sing major, minor, diminished and augmented triads, and selected seventh chords in root position and inversions in individual and group repertoire. (6) Play music at higher designated level (hands together reading both clefs) in several meters and keys with accuracy and musicality. (7) Continue to apply beginning music analysis, transposition, and sight-singing skills to selected musical theatre song repertoire. (8) Demonstrate understanding of slash chord notation by devising and notating a simple arrangement from a selected lead sheet melody.

Credits:

2.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.pointpark.edu

Phone Number:

(412) 391-4100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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