• Continue developing the ability to sing (both prepared and at sight) major, minor and medieval modes, including melodies containing chromatically altered pitches and modulations to closely related keys.
• Continue developing the ability to perform rhythms in simple, compound and asymmetrical meters through three levels of subdivision using the rhythm syllable system.
• Continue developing melodic, rhythmic, and intervallic dictation skills.
• Continue developing conducting skills, including the ability to use patterns containing 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 12 pulses.
• Continue developing harmonic dictation skills, including recognizing chord qualities, harmonic progressions and non-harmonic tones.
• Continued development of structured improvisation using melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns.

Music 214 (Harmony II) is a usual co- or prerequisite for this class. In addition, good keyboard skills are an enormous asset.

myWebCT is your personal WebCT portal page. All classes in which you're enrolled that are using WebCT will appear on your myWebCT page. (New for Spring 2004: All students officially enrolled in this class via SOLAR are automatically registered into WebCT as well. If this class does not appear on your myWebCT page, it means you're not enrolled for the class; your myWebCT page will be updated within a day after you enroll in the class.)

Things you'll find at the WebCT Homepage for this course include: your grades; your attendance records; your Concert Card records; an electronic version of this Syllabus; links to helpful off-site resources; Quiz and Test materials. Please note that all your personal records (grades, attendance, Concert Cards) are kept confidential by WebCT; no other students can see your grades or other confidential information.

Important: when Quiz or Test materials are posted online, you are responsible for getting to them by the announced deadline.

Date				Continuing Students				Transfer Students
March 7				TBA				TBA
April 17				TBA				TBA
May 24				TBA				TBA

• Weekly in-class performances (Solfege and Rhythms) are intended to be exactly that. It is not normally possible to make up in-class performances following an absence; it makes no difference whether the absence is "excused" or otherwise.
• Quizzes and Tests. In-class quizzes and tests must be taken with the rest of the class when they are given; they cannot be made up after the fact. You may pre-arrange to take a quiz or test before your CSUN ensemble’s planned away date(s), but not upon your return. Arrangements for this accommodation must be made in a timely fashion before the expected absence.
• Absences due to authorized school activities. If you must miss class because of an authorized school activity (e.g., ensemble performance), you are still responsible for any grade-producing activity (in-class performance, quiz, test) done during your absence. To that end, you have the option of arranging with the Instructor to fulfill the requirement prior to your absence; in such cases, you are responsible for making a timely request for this accommodation.
• Any exception to these policies is at the sole discretion of the Instructor.

OK, now that we have that out of our system: please, please, please--do not blow off the assigned MacGAMUT work! Some students have been under the misimpression that MacGAMUT is an all-or-nothing proposition (that is, that you must turn in the entire assigned body of work in order to receive any credit) and failed to turn in any MacGAMUT work. Not true!!! Whatever work you do is credited towards the MacGAMUT component of your semester grade. Believe it: it is in your best interest to turn in something rather than nothing!

If you do not fulfill the Concert Attendance Requirement, you will receive an Incomplete for the "lab" portion of the course. In order to clear this Incomplete, you must attend 13 concerts (yes, all 13–not just the balance of concerts you didn't already attend) during the next semester. No concert attendance is held over to the next semester. Incompletes not cleared within 12 months are automatically converted to a F(Fail) by the University Admissions and Records Office.

On-Campus Concerts: Concert cards are collected at the door following most on-campus events. Look for the sign that states "Concert Cards Collected Here." No concert cards can be turned in after the event, not even to your musicianship Instructor (please do not ask). Forgetting your card(s) is not an excuse: you simply won't receive credit for that concert. So, plan ahead: bring a card–duplicate cards will not be available at the concert–and remember to turn it in at the conclusion of the concert.

Off-Campus Concerts: In order to receive credit for outside concert attendance, you must turn in a program and a ticket with your recital card to your musicianship Instructor within two weeks following the event.

Note: Concert Cards are not collected at some on-campus events; for those rare occasions, report your attendance as you would for an off-campus event (though you'll still receive on-campus credit).

The Bottom Line: Plan for concert attendance–it is part of this course and your grade.

FIRST DATE FOR CONCERT ATTENDANCE: Monday, February 2, 2004

LAST DATE FOR CONCERT ATTENDANCE: Sunday, May 23, 2004