Course Content and Outcomes Guides (CCOG)

CCOG for MUS 113C Winter 2025


Course Number:
MUS 113C
Course Title:
Sight Singing and Ear Training III
Credit Hours:
1
Lecture Hours:
0
Lecture/Lab Hours:
20
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Continues the building of aural skills through singing, listening, transcribing and performing. Introduces seventh chords, subdivisions in compound meter, and blues scales. Includes singing in 3 and 4 parts, melodies with large leaps, and syncopation across measures. Recommended: concurrent enrollment in MUS 113, MUS 193P, and MUC 130C. Audit available. Prerequisites: MUS 112C, MUC 120B, or instructor permission.

Addendum to Course Description

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.

Intended Outcomes for the course

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

  1. Aurally identify common major key diatonic chord progressions using root position triads.

  2. Perform rhythmic examples in simple and compound meters that contain beat subdivisions and syncopation across measures.

  3. Aurally identify seventh chord qualities in the context of major and minor keys.

  4. Sing prepared diatonic melodies in major and minor keys that contain leaps larger than a fifth, and melodies that outline triads and seventh chords.

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

  6. Transcribe the rhythm of examples in simple and compound meters that contain divisions and subdivisions.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

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

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

  • Cut time (2/2)

  • Syncopation with subdivisions and syncopation across the bar line

  • Subdivisions in compound meters (12/8, 9/8 and 6/8) within beat values

  • Hemiolas and alternating duple-triple meters (6/8 + 3/4)

  • Performing two-part rhythms in duets or small groups

  • All diatonic and native triads and functions in minor keys

  • Seventh chords in major and minor keys, augmented 7th, minor-major 7th

  • Major and minor key melodies and melodic fragments that combine conjunct and disjunct motion outlining primary and secondary triads

  • Melodies with leaps larger than a fifth

  • Singing blues scales

  • 12-bar blues progressions

  • Singing common homorhythmic major and minor key chord progressions in 3 and 4 parts