Unit Objectives

By the end of this unit, students will be able to: 

• Demonstrate further proficiency sight-reading, improvising, and transcribing excerpts that incorporate review topics including secondary dominants, modulation, and chromatic embellishing tones. 

• Sight-read and accurately perform rhythms in simple and compound meters that use beat notes other than quarter and dotted quarter notes (e.g. 3/8, 2/2, 4/2, 6/4, 9/16, 12/16).

• Aurally distinguish between binary, ternary, and strophic forms.

• Aurally analyze a musical excerpt that uses a 2-part, 3-part, or strophic form, using an audio annotation tool such as BriFormer; identify phrase structure, cadences, key areas, and formal sections.