Weekly Lab Assignments for MUS 114

Assignment for Week 6

• Use solfege syllables to indicate problem spots in each melody.
  
  
• Listen to the duet and treat it as you would a two-part dictation (i.e., write out both parts).

Concepts in Practice

Assignment for Week 7

• Does melody 1 modulate? Can you describe the function of the sharps in the first melody?
  
  
• Identify the sequential repetitions in melody 2. Are the sequential repetitions diatonic or non-diatonic?
  
  
• Melodies 3 and 4 employ mode mixture--write out the solfege syllables for each melody and circle the "blue" notes.

Assignment for Week 8

• How does melody 1 return to tonic? Be careful of the accidentals in m. 7.
  
  
• Beware of mm. 7-8: try to hear the hidden diatonic scale segment re-do-ti-la-sol-fa-mi-do.
  
  
• Can you hear the "implied" 7-6 suspensions in melody 3? In what measure do they occur?
  
  
• The last tune is in G-major and begins on scale degree 3. Verdi's melody employs 7 non-diatonic elements, some related to G-major through simple mixture, others by chromatic figuration.

Assignment for Week 9

• Does changing solfege syllables make melody 1 easier to sing? If so, when and where do you hear the new tonic?
  
  
• When singing melodies that leap to chromatic notes, it is often easier to sing the diatonic version before attempting the chromatic one. The beginning of melody 2 is a case in point.
  
  
• Mark all cadences in melody 2.

Assignment for Week 10

• Identify each instance of the dominant 9th chord in Melodies 1 and 2. The beginning of Melody 3 (do-te-la) requires a bit of practice.
  
  
• Melody 3 uses all 12 notes of the chromatic scale except for one--which note is left out?
  
  
• What kind of cadence is hinted at in m. 4 of Melody 3.

Assignment for Week 11

• Write out both melodies and circle each occurence of ra (Phrygian 2) and fi (raised scale degree 4).
  
  
• Isolate those passages that arpeggiate the Neapolitan and practice them.
  
  
• Where does Phrygian 2 find its melodic resolution?

Assignment for Week 12

• Identify the Italian 6th in the melody? Modify the melody rhythmically to accomodate other augmented 6th chords.
  
  
• Identify the modulation in melody 2. Where does it begin to move toward the relative major?