Courses:
Music 121:
Basic Musicianship I: Elementary sight singing and dictation.
This course introduces students to our sight singing and dictation studies that will be continued for four semesters here at Penn State. Topics include: Interval recognition and identification, learning of solfeg for sight singing, rhythmic studies, and improvisation.
Music 122:
Basic Musicianship II: Continuation of Music 121.
This course continues what has been learned in Music 121, but begins to focus more heavily upon harmonic dictation, incorporating topics learned in Music 131/132 (written theory). Sight-singing examples also begin to highlight seventh chords and more advanced intervals such as sevenths and tritones.