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MUS 240 Solfege I
Section Number 74702
Catalog Description:

Note:  May be taken 2 times
This beginning skills course will focus on sight-singing, ear training, keyboard and written skills to develop the ability to sing at sight by means of relative and absolute solmization, recognition of pitches and intervals with accurate intonation. CSU; Closed Captioned

Instructor:

Diane Geller

Class Meetings:

9:00-9:50am On the following Saturdays: Aug. 25; Sept. 15; Oct. 13; Nov. 17; Dec. 1, 15
Room D-4

Broadcast Days and Times:

Times & days for Cox Cable North – Channel 16 and Time Warner Cable North – Channel 16: Sunday 10:30am-11:00am OR Monday 9:00-9:30am OR Monday Wednesday 9:30-10:00pm
Times and days for all of San Diego County; Adelphia Cable-Channel 67; Time Warner-Channel 16; Julian-Channel 4;  and
Coronado Shores-Channel 46: Sunday 10:30am-11:00am

Viewing Options

If this course does not air in your area or you don’t have cable you have two options. The first option is you can check out video tapes from the Learning Resource Center on the San Marcos Main Campus Library or the Escondido, Ramona or Mt Carmel Education centers. The second option is watching the lessons online. All of our classes are video streamed and available for viewing on the course’s Blackboard website (see below about Blackboard log in instructions).

Class Outline

Course materials are available the Friday prior to when classes begin. Access your course outline, assignments, handouts and announcements, as well as view video lessons in Blackboard. Log in Blackboard instructions:

USERNAME: STUDENT ID Number
PASSWORD: Palomar eServices Password
(Unless you are a returning student and previously changed your password)

To log in go to: http://www.palomar.edu/pconline/

Textbook and Other Required Materials:

333 Reading Exercises, Kodaly, Boosey and Hawkes
Just Five, Kersey, Belwin-Mills Publishing
Two-Part American Songs, Williams, Southern Music Company

Video Series Entitled:

Solfege I:  Stepping Stones to Reading Music

Video Lesson Descriptions:

1) First Steps to Music Reading: The Musical Road Map
Introduction of terms: "Solfege", "Beat", "Rhythm", basic rhythms, beginning melodic intervals: "So-Mi", and "So-La". Following the Musical Road Map for successful practice: 5 Main "Zones": Rhythm, Intervals, Scales, Exercise/Song Literature, 2-part Singing.

2) Counting Your Steps
Introduction to 2/4 meter, rhythm reading and writing. Melodic review of "So-Mi", and "La-So-Mi", "Mi-So-La". Adding the 4th: "Mi-La", "La-Mi". practicing these melodic sounds in intervals, scales, exercises, songs, and 2-part singing.

3) Stepping Up the Pace and Down the Scale
Continuing with more advanced rhythms. Introduction to 4/4 and 3/4 meter. Adding "Re" and "Do" to the mix: new combinations of intervals: "Mi-Re-Do", and "So-Mi-Re-Do". Practicing these melodic sounds in intervals, scales, exercises, songs, and 2-part singing.

4) Five Singing Stepping Stones: Introducing the Pentatone Scale
Continuing with syncopation and dotted rhythms, introducing 16th note rhythms. Introduction of the simple pentatonic scale: "Do-Re-Mi-So-La" in intervals, exercises, songs, and 2-part singing. Also preparation for 2-part skill: singing and playing on keyboard simultaneously.

5) A Note Worth Repeating. Extending the Simple Pentatone Up and Down
Review of rhythms and meters learned so far with reading and writing. Adding High "Do", Low "So", and Low "La" to the pentatone scale: Extended Pentatone in intervals, exercises, songs, and 2-part singing. Demonstration of 2-part skill: singing and playing on keyboard simultaneously.

6) Is it a Mutation?----No It's An Interval Drill
Learning to hear intervals by changing the tonics of the pentatone scales. More practice with 16th note rhythms, and advanced rhythms. Five different flavors: ending the pentatone on different tonics: "Do", "Re", "Mi", "So", and "La". "Mutation": Changing from one scale to another on the same starting pitch. Practice with "Re" "Do-Low "La", Low "So" in intervals, exercises, songs, and 2-part singing.

7) Advancing Steps in Rhythms and Melody
Hearing what you see and seeing what you hear and read: Rhythmic and Melodic Dictation of concepts studied so far. Practice with "Mi" "Re" "Do-Low" "La", Low "So" in intervals, exercises, songs, and 2-part singing.

8) Stepping Up To New Levels of Musicianship
Review of 6/8 Meter and rhythm Groups I, II, and III, Introduction of Triplets. Savoring the five "flavors": practicing the five pentatone scales in intervals, exercises, songs, and 2-part singing.

9) Stepping Toward the 'Final' - But Not Final Steps
Practicing for all skill levels of the Final exam: rhythm dictation, mutating the five pentatone scales, Sight-reading exercises, presenting song literature, singing 2-pt. literature, singing and playing on keyboard.

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