Musicianship III

Catalog description

This course continues from Musicianship II, focusing on sight-singing and dictation techniques of diatonic melodies of increased levels of difficulty. Students are introduced to chromaticism within melodic phrases, including chromatic embellishment, tonicizing the dominant, and modulation to the dominant or relative major. Students are introduced to contrasting 8-measure phrases in their melodic dictation that also features chromatic embellishment. Rhythmic dictations feature increased levels of syncopation from MUS-1740. Students are also introduced to harmonic dictation that includes modal mixture and chromatic embellishment continue to develop techniques for harmonic dictation, including inner voices of an SATB setting.