MUSI 152 - Musicianship I

Study of primary materials (overtone series, pitch, rhythm, triad, & 7th chord spelling, diatonic triad and 7th chord functions), voice leading (melodic principles, chord voicing, parallelism), part writing (connecting root position chords) and harmonic progression (sequences, diatonic chord functions, overtone series). Ear training and sight-singing, identification of scale forms, conjunct diatonic melodies, arpeggiations of tonic and dominant, sequences. Identification of I and V triads, major, minor, and diminished triads, ii and IV chords. Practice in dictation of half-beat values, identifying duple and triple subdivision, syncopation of half-beat values. Sight-singing stepwise melodies, intervals, scales, simple syncopation and compound meter, melodies emphasizing tonic, subdominant and dominant harmonic background. Rudimentary improvisation of melodies with primary harmonic background. Required of all music majors and minors. Two laboratory hours per week.

Credits: 4 hours