AVAILABILITY OF INSTRUCTORS: It is our policy to be available to students as much as is humanly possible. Please check the respective office doors for office hours, or make an appointment.
SPECIAL NEEDS: Any student with a documented disability (e.g., mobility, learning, psychological, vision, hearing, etc.) who needs to arrange accommodations must contact both myself and Disability Services at the beginning of the term.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will concern itself with the development of those pitch and rhythm aural and performance skills one needs to become a first class musician.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: In this course students will learn:

• SCALES:
  • major, ascending and descending
  • three forms of minor, ascending and descending
  • chromatic, ascending and descending
• READING:
  • treble and bass clefs, with syllables
• INTERVALS:
  • all simple intervals within the major scale
  • intervals up from the tonic through ascending major scale
  • intervals down from the tonic through descending major scale
  • aurally intervals must be identified both melodically and harmonically
• TRIADS:
  • major and minor triads in all bass and soprano positions
  • diminished triads in root position, first inversion
  • augmented triads in root position
  • all triads are to be sung from "do" and with chord numbers
• SEVENTH CHORDS:
  • major-minor in root position
• HARMONY:
  • recognition of tonic, dominant, and sub-dominant triads and major-minor seventh chords
• MELODIC:
  • sight singing and melodic dictation of melodies in major and minor keys, within these parameters:
    • conjunct motion
    • leaps within the tonic, dominant and subdominant triads
• RHYTHM:
  • the beat, first division and first multiple patterns
  • in simple, duple and quadruple meter
  • simple triple meter
  • simple changing meter
  • compound meter (duple, triple, and quadruple)
  • dotted quarter-eighth patterns in simple meter
  • anacrusic phrasing
  • one part rhythm dictation, one and two-part rhythm reading
    

COURSE CALENDER: Since this is a progressive course involving the development of musical skills no set calender of subject material introduction can be given. However, the student can assume that every skill required in the course will be covered every week. It is also to be expected that the student will spend, at least, two hours outside of class for every hour spent in class. Some students may find that it necessary to spend more time. This is normal in the beginning of the course.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

• Class Participation: Includes promptness at the beginning of class, attendance and the ability to participate actively when called upon.
• Homework: Students will be given very specific and detailed computer assisted assignments that will form the core of "out of class" assignments. Such assignments will be graded and will be computed as an important part of the class grade.
• Examinations: Four types of examinations will be given during the quarter:
  (1) individual examinations in solfege skills,
  (2) individual examinations in eurhythmics skills,
  (3) mid-term and final examinations in both solfege and eurhythmics.
  

EXAMINATIONS:

• Mid-term and Final Individual Examinations will be TBA.
  

TEXT MATERIALS:

• Berkowitz et al. A New Approach to Sight Singing. New York, NY.: W.W. Norton & Company, 1986.
• Cleland-Grindahl Developing Musicianship Through Ear Training (not published) 
  

COURSE GRADING: Within the Solfege/Eurhythmics program there are various skill-areas in which each student must develop competency. Since competency in each of these skill-areas is absolutely essential for one to operate as a musician, students must achieve a passing grade in each skill-area as well as compile a passing grade as a total score in order to successfully complete this course.
The skill-areas in which these passing grades must be achieved are:

N.B.: Separate grades are maintained for Solfege Performance and Dictation Skills, and Eurhythmics Performance and Dictation Skills. These grades are maintained so that the student and teacher may monitor the student's progress in each of these areas. At the end of the semester each of these grades must be passing for a student to pass the course. Even if the average of these grades represents a passing score for the course, the student will not be passed on to the next course if any one of the skill grades is not passing. The reason for this is that the Solfege/Eurhythmics courses are competency-based and you must be competent in each of the skill areas.

Grading Scale: This course uses the grading scale established by the Music Theory Department and follows the College +/- grading system.

Grading Procedure:
1. Separate class and examination grades will be maintained for each of the skill areas.
2. The class grade will consist of an average of all in-class quizzes.
3. The examination grade will be an average of the Individual, Mid-term, and Final Examinations.
4. At the end of the semester the final grades in each of the skill-areas will be achieved by averaging the class/homework and examination grades on a 50%/50% basis. If this grade falls below 65 for any skill-area the student will receive a failing grade for the course.
5. If all the skill-area grades are 65 or better they will average to a final grade of at least 65, meaning the student will pass the course. The only exception would be the need to invoke procedures outlined below under "Additional grading information" listed below.
6. The student should understand that the final class grade is a result of the 50%/50% averaging of the final Solfege and Eurhythmics grades.

Additional grading information:
1. You are permitted 2 absences (excused or unexcused) in this course.
2.Absences over two (=one week) will be calculated against the final grade as follows. Each absence will equal half a letter grade.

• Once the final grade has been calculated the total number of absences will be deleted.
• By way of example, if the final grade is an A but the student missed two class sessions over the allotted number ( a total of two weeks of class) the true final grade would be a B.

3. Attendance will be taken during the first minute of each class period. Any students who enter class after attendance has been taken will be counted tardy and will receive 1/2 a cut for the day.

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: "Academic dishonesty refers not simply to dishonesty in examinations, but to any behavior, such as plagiarism, which violates academic standards. Matters of dishonesty may be handled by the professor and student involved, and may be appealed to the Student-Faculty Problems Committee." Baldwin-Wallace College STUDENT HANDBOOK, p 17.

FINAL CAVEAT: The above schedule and procedures in this course are subject to change in the event of extenuating circumstances. It should also be noted that the requirements stated above under COURSE OBJECTS represent minimum expectations, students in Section 1 are to assume that they will be required to go beyond the stated minimum.