Chapter 11 - Aural Skills 2: Melodic Dictation

Sight singing portion

the melodic dictation portion will have one melody in treble def and one melody in bass clef.

skills for successful melodic dictation

• Recognizing the key

• Recognizing the meter and understanding the rhythms

• Understanding the relationship of the pitches to the tonal center

• Recognizing familiar melodic and rhythmic patterns and their placement \n in the measure

• Being able to correctly draw note heads, stems, dots, beams, accidentals, and Rags that correspond to rhythm, and pitches on the staff corresponding to placement in the tonality

• One of the keys to successful melodic dictation is being able to reproduce the melody you hear in your head (audiation). Listen to the melody as if you were asked to sing it back.

common beginning patterns

Do-Re-Mi

Do-Mi-So

common ending patterns

• Mi-Re-Do

• So-La-Ti-Do

• Re-Ti-Do

• Ti-Re-Do

• So-Ti-Do

• Fa-Ti-Do

• Mi-Ti-Do

• Do-Re-Do

• Do-Ti-Do

the key and any altered notes may occur

in minor from the use of scalar variance