Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

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

Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to:

1. Perform rhythmic examples in 12/8, 9/8, and 6/8 that contain syncopation within a measure at the division or beat level only.

2. Sight-sing a diatonic, mostly stepwise melody in a major key.

3. Sing prepared diatonic, conjunct and disjunct melodies in major and minor keys that are limited to outlining primary triads.

4. Aurally identify all intervals within the octave of major and minor scales (played harmonically, melodically - ascending and descending).

5. Transcribe conjunct melodies in major and minor keys that use beats divisions and longer in 4/4, 3/4, and 2/4 time signatures.

Aurally identify the tonic pitch in the context of musical examples

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

• Compound meter (12/8, 9/8, 6/8), and conducting patterns in 4, 3, and 2.

• Subdivisions in simple meters (4/4, 3/4 and 2/4) within beat values

• All diatonic triads and functions in major keys

• Melodic and harmonic minor scales, minor key signatures

• Scale degree labels in minor (both moveable Do and scale degree numbers)

• Minor intervals within octave from scale degree 1

• Augmented 4th and diminished 5ths, augmented 2nd as found in major and minor keys

• Major/minor key and pentatonic melodies and melodic fragments that combine conjunct and disjunct motion limited to outlining primary triads

• Singing homorhythmic major and minor key melodies in 2 and 3 parts: bass and melody