Graduate Remedials
Remedial Ear Training
Remedial Harmony

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Remedial Ear Training
MU013
Fall Semester 2008
Credits: 1

Course Objectives
Incoming graduate students who may have had little ear training or whose skills need refreshing take this course. Its purpose is to cover as much remedial ground as possible in one semester. Typically students assigned to this course have fairly strong sightsinging abilities but little experience of aural analysis and dictation.General objectives of this course are:

Sightsinging and Rhythm
fluency in and understanding of
• treble, bass, alto, and tenor clefs
• fixed do solfége syllables
• singing and conducting
• irregular and changing meters

Aural Analysis
aural recognition and identification of
• harmonic progressions
• chords, scales, and intervals
• form

Dictation
transcription of 
• modulating tonal melodies
• atonal melodies
• two and four part dictation
• rhythmic dictation

Textbooks
MELODIA: A COURSE IN SIGHTSINGING
Samuel Cole and Leo Lewis
Theodore Presser Co., 2004
ISBN: 9789200129384

Grading
This is a pass/fail course. Assessment of a student's successful completion of the course is based upon a combination of quizzes, homework, and class participation.             ________________________________________________________________________________

Remedial Harmony
MU016
Spring Semester 2009
Credits: 1

Course Objectives
Incoming graduate students who may have had little harmony and counterpoint training or whose skills need refreshing take this course. Typically students are strong enough in the rudiments of voice leading but may have had less experience with form and structure, and with chromatic and extended harmony. The syllabus offers a survey of the growth of Western harmonic language through study of eight works, each representative of a different period of musical history:

Josquin: Ave Maria, Virgo Serena
Bach: Cantata No.140
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
Beethoven: Piano Sonata Op.109
Schumann: Dichterliebe
Wagner: Tristan Prelude
Debussy: Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"
Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire

Textbooks
Required texts are available online from www.textbookx.com
CANTATA NO 140                                                                       
Johann Sebastian Bach                                                     
W.W. Norton & Company, 1972
ISBN: 9780393095555
           
SYMPHONY IN G MINOR, K. 550                                               
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart                                                           
W.W. Norton & Company, 1967
ISBN: 9780393097757

COMPLETE PIANO SONATAS VOLUME 2
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486231358
           
DICHTERLIEBE
Robert Schumann
W.W. Norton & Company, 1971
ISBN: 9780393099041
           
PRELUDE AND TRANSFIGURATION FROM TRISTAN AND ISOLDE
Richard Wagner
W.W. Norton & Company, 1985
ISBN: 9780393954050
           
PRELUDE TO "THE AFTERNOON OF A FAUN"                                   
Claude Debussy                                                                       
W.W. Norton & Company, 1970                                               
ISBN: 9780393099393
           
VERKARTE NACHT AND PIERROT LUNAIRE
Arnold Schoenberg
Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486278858

Grading
This is a pass/fail course. Assessment of a student's successful completion of the course is based upon a combination of quizzes, homework and class participation.           

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