Designed to improve the student's basic skills in sight singing, and rhythmic and melodic dictation with an introduction to four-part harmonic dictation. Techniques of sight singing and dictation of diatonic melodies in simple and compound meters with strong emphasis on harmonic dictation. Sight-singing techniques of modulating diatonic melodies in simple, compound, or irregular meters which involve complex rhythmic patterns. Emphasis is placed on four-part harmonic dictation of modulating phrases. Techniques of musicianship at the intermediate level, stressing the importance of musical nuances in sight singing.
Emphasis is placed on chromatically inflected four-part harmonic dictation.
Advanced dictation, sight singing, and musicianship, with emphasis on 20th-century music.