Ear Training I
COURSE MUSI 171X
TIME/LOCATION 12:00 PM to 12:50 PM, TTH Fall Semester/Steinman 214
INSTRUCTOR Pandel Collaros
OFFICE 210 Steinman
HOURS by appointment
PHONES (office) 829-7331, (home) 740-264-5739
E-MAIL collaros623@comcast.net
WEB PAGE http://home.comcast.net/~collaros623/index.htm
TEXTS Ottman, Robert. Music for Sight Singing, latest edition. Upper River Saddle, NJ:  Prentice-Hall.
Blombach, Ann K.  MacGAMUT, latest edition.  Columbus, OH:  MacGAMUT Music Software, Inc.
DESCRIPTION MUSI 171X is the first semester of an integrated two year ear training sequence. This course develops critical listening skills through dictation, sight singing, conducting, and aural analysis.  MUSI 171X is coordinated with MUSI 171 and will parallel the concepts presented there as much as possible.
ATTENDANCE POLICY
 Attendance is highly recommended.  Quizzes and exams missed for whatever reason may not be made up.  The instructor is the sole arbiter of whether an absence is excused or unexcused; the instructor will make such a determination in a fair and objective way on an ad hoc basis.  For quizzes and exams missed because of such excused absence, no grade will be entered.  For quizzes and exams missed because of an unexcused absence, the grade will be a 0 for the missed assignment(s).
ASSESSABLE LEARNING
   GOALS
 Singing quizzes and exams will assess the student's success in mastering sight-singing with moveable-do solfege syllables.  Mastering sight-singing with moveable-do solfege syllables includes the simultaneous vocal production of accurate pitch and rhythm, and basic and accurate conducting with the right arm and hand.  Completion of MacGAMUT exercises at a passing level in a timely fashion and submitting of relevant .mgs files as email attachments to me in a timely fashion will be the measure of the student's dictation proficiency component of the course. 
ASSIGNMENTS POLICY
 If two or more singing quizzes and/or exams are missed for whatever reason, it is highly recommend that the student meet with the intstructor to discuss withdrawal from the course.
OBJECTIVES
 The student is expected to be able to sight-sing melodies of a difficulty appropriate to this course, in the fashion decribed under "assessable learning goals" above.  The student is also expected to be able to perform dictation tasks at all levels of difficulty reflected by the prescribed MacGAMUT assignments.
PREREQUISITES
 Permission of instructor
GRADING
 		25%      Quizzes
25%      Exam 1
 50%      MacGAMUT
SCALE
A
A-
B+
B		 =   93-100
=   90-92
=   87-89
=   83-86
B-
C+
C
C-		 =   80-82
=   77-79
=   73-76
=   70-72
D+
D
D-
F		 =   67-69
=   63-66
=   60-62
=   00-59
Everyone is expected to have a working email address, to give it to me immediately if it varies from the standard Bethany College form, and to check it daily.

Ear Training I-Tentative Outline

COMPUTER EXERCISES ARE DUE EVERY WEEK BY 12:00 AM SUNDAY OF THE SUBSEQUENT WEEK
WEEK 1:
Practice "ta"-ing and conducting exercises from Chapter 1, Section 2
INSTALL 171XPresets.mgp
Computer Exercise: Intervals--melodic ascending, 3 choices; Rhythm--patterns 1, simple meter
WEEK 2:
Practice singing and conducting melodies from Chapter 2, Section 1
Computer Exercise: Intervals--melodic, 4 choices; Scales--M/m ascending, notate accs
WEEK 3:
Practice singing and conducting melodies from Chapter 2, Section 2
Computer Exercise: Melodic dictation--major, simple, 1 skip; Intervals--melodic, 6 choices
WEEK 4:
Practice singing and conducting melodies from Chapter 3, Section 1
Computer Exercise: Melodic Dictation--V skips, anacrusis; Scales--M/m asc., desc., notate accs
Singing Quiz 1 (melodies through Week 3)
WEEK 5:
Practice singing and conducting melodies from Chapter 3, Section 2
Computer Exercise: Intervals--melodic, all choices listed; Chords--triads root position
WEEK 6:
Practice singing and conducting melodies from Chapter 3, Section 3
Computer Exercise: Intervals--harmonic, 3 choices; Melodic dictation larger I and V skips
Singing Exam 1 (melodies through Week 5 and sight)
WEEK 7:
Practice singing and conducting melodies from Chapter 4, Section 2
Computer Exercise: Intervals--harmonic, 4 choices; Rhythm--patterns 2, simple w/rests
WEEK 8:
Practice singing and conducting melodies from Chapter 4, Section 3
Computer Exercise: Melodic dictation--cut time, IV skips, 6ths in I, V
WEEK 9:
Practice singing and conducting melodies from Chapter 4, Section 5
Computer Exercise: Intervals--melodic, all choices
Singing Quiz 2 (melodies through Week 8)
WEEK 10:
Practice singing and conducting melodies from Chapter 5, Section 1
Computer Exercise: Chords--triads root, 1st; Rhythm--exercises on patterns 1-2
WEEK 11:
Practice singing and conducting melodies from Chapter 5, Section 2
Computer Exercise: Chords--triads all positions; Rhythm--patterns 3, compound meter
Singing Exam 2 (melodies through Week 10 and sight)
WEEK 12:
Practice singing and conducting melodies from Chapter 5, Section 3
Computer Exercise: Chords--7ths mm/Mm/MM, root; Harmonic dictation--major (2 primary chords)
WEEK 13:
Practice singing and conducting melodies from Chapter 6, Section 1
Computer Exercise: Melodic dictation--Larger IV skips, secondary skips; Harmonic dictation--Major (2 chords)
WEEK 14:
Practice singing and conducting melodies from Chapter 6, Section 2
Computer Exercise: Harmonic dictation--Minor (2 primary chords) and Minor (2 chords)
WEEK 15:
Practice singing and conducting melodies from Chapter 6, Section 3
Singing Quiz 3 (melodies through Week 15)

Any student in this course who has a disability that may prevent him/her from fully demonstrating his/her abilities should contact me personally as soon as possible so we can discuss accommodations necessary to ensure full participation and facilitate the educational opportunity.
The instructor reserves the right to change this syllabus at any time.