Learning Outcomes
By successfully completing this course, students will improve their ability to read musical scores rhythmically and melodically, and to sight-sing new scores in every musical clef.
Course Content (Syllabus)
This four-semester course aims at the improvement of the essential abilities of music reading, sight singing, identification of music elements by ear and in writing, taking into account the special parameters of art music in different historical periods. During the course, the following objectives are pursued through exercise: a) scales and modes from the Middle Ages to today, b) musical rhythm, c) clefs and sight music reading, d) identification of musical intervals and chords, e) identification of harmonic sequences, f) improvement of musical memory, g) melody dictation (monophonic to three-voice) in various diatonic and chromatic scales.