Solfege IV

3 units · Undergraduate

Spring: 3 units This course continues from 57183 Solfege III. It consists of reading, listening, singing, and dictation activities. Students learn to read and sing chromatic, modal and non-tonal music, beginning from basic intervals. They apply retrograde, inversion and retrograde inversion techniques on given phrases. They continue with harmonic dictation from the previous semester, and practice three-part contrapuntal melodic dictations. Students continue singing Bach chorales in open score with variations and changes. Prerequisite: 57-183