REQUIRED COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:

 1.  Demonstrate fluent music notation reading skills in pitch, rhythm, key signatures, and meters.

 2.  Apply knowledge of diatonic and non-diatonic scales and key signatures.

 3.  Demonstrate understanding of principles of transposition.

 4.  Identify melodic and harmonic intervals using written and aural skills.

 5.  Use written and aural skills to build and identify chords in four qualities (major, minor, augmented, diminished) and dominant seventh (V7) chords.

 6.  Apply knowledge of chords by composing chord progressions using basic chord progressions principles, cadences, and forms.

 7.  Harmonize melodies using blocked chords and basic accompaniment patterns.

 8.  Analyze examples of written notation for key, harmony, and form.

 9.  Utilize beginning level melodic and rhythmic dictation skills in simple and compound meters.

 10. Demonstrate sight singing skills using solfege simple diatonic melodies in stepwise motion.

 REQUIRED TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 I.     Melodies and rhythms using sub-divisions and leaps

 II. Key relationships

        A.  Relative and parallel keys

 III. Transposition of diatonic melodies and basic chord progressions

 IV. Intervals

        A.  Melodic and harmonic

        B.  Simple and compound

        C.  Inversion of intervals

        D.  Consonant and dissonant intervals

 V. Triads and dominant seventh (V7) chords in root position and inversions

 VI. Diatonic triads in both major and minor keys

        A.  Variants in minor keys

 VII. Principles of chord progression using circle motion and other common principles

 VIII. Harmonization and accompaniment patterns

 IX. Analysis using chord symbols, Roman numeral analysis and Introduction to figured bass

 X. Rhythmic notation and dictation using sub-divisions

 XI. Melodic dictation in diatonic major and minor keys (variants in forms of minors)

 XII. Sight sing major and minor melodies using combinations of skips and stepwise motion