Student Learning Outcomes

• MUS 5B students will be able to sing on sight a short diatonic melody mixing stepwise motion and frequent skips through the tonic, subdominant and dominant harmonies.
• MUS 5B students will be able to transcribe the soprano voice, bass voice and harmony (using Roman numerals and figures) of a six-chord four-part progression played four times at the piano. This progression may use only diatonic triads in root position.
• Perform at sight rhythm pieces and rhythm patterns in simple meters that use a quarter note beat and include subdivisions.
• Perform at sight rhythm pieces and patterns in compound meters that use a dotted quarter note beat and include subdivisions.
• Sing memorized melodies, melodic patterns and duets outlining any diatonic triads and V7 using moveable-do solfege.
• Sing at sight diatonic melodies, melodic patterns and duets outlining any diatonic triads and V7 using moveable-do solfege.
• Aurally distinguish between the intervals of the m7, TT and M7 when played melodically.
• Dictate, in correct music notation, rhythm pieces and patterns that employ a simple beat and values no smaller than the subdivision.
• Dictate, in correct music notation, rhythm pieces and patterns that employ a compound beat and values no smaller than the subdivision.
• Dictate, in correct music notation, melodies and melodic patterns that outline any diatonic triads and V7.
• Dictate, in correct music notation and Roman numerals, the chords, soprano and bass for phrase-length four-part progressions that make use of diatonic triads in any inversion and V7 in root position.