ET2 Extra Credit Dictation (Spring 2024)
Each of the following dictations is worth up to 0.5% added to your final grade. You may do as many or as few as you like! Please do not confer with other students about your responses.
Melodic Dictation 1:
Alto clef; G major; 4/4 meter; 4 measures long.
There will be a quarter note pick-up, and there will be no notes faster than an eighth note.
The melody will end on Do. It is mostly stepwise, and most leaps are between Do-Mi-Sol or Sol-Ti-Re; however, there is also a new leap between Re-Fa or Fa-La.
You may listen as many times as you like!
Melodic Dictation 2:
Tenor clef; A minor; 6/16 meter; 4 measures long.
The starting note is either Do, Me, or Sol; the melody will end on Do, but there will be multiple notes in the final measure.
Mostly steps, but we can have leaps within our tonic, dominant, or predominant chords (i, V, iio, or iv)
There will be a tie across a barline!
You may listen as many times as you like!
Melodic Dictation 3:
Alto Clef; Bb major; 4/4; 4 measures long.
There will be sixteenth notes (2nd level subdivisions), so draw your shorthand accordingly!
The starting note is either Do, Mi, or Sol; the melody will end on Do, but there may be multiple notes in the final measure.
All leaps are possible, but we’ll emphasize leaps in our V7 chord
You may listen as many times as you like!
Melodic Dictation 4 (MD42)
Melodic Dictation 4:
Tenor Clef; F# minor; 6/8; 4 measures long.
There will be sixteenth notes (2nd level subdivisions), so draw your shorthand accordingly!
The starting note is either Do, Me, or Sol; the melody will end on Do, but there may be multiple notes in the final measure.
All leaps are possible, but we’ll emphasize leaps in our V7 chord
You may listen as many times as you like!
Harmonic Dictation 1:
Eb major, 4/4, 4 measures long
Write the soprano and bass notes. Write one Roman Numeral per bass note
Bass is mostly quarter notes (but the last note is a whole note). You’re given the starting note.
Soprano is mostly quarter notes with some 8th notes as passing and neighbor tones (which you’ll need to label as PT or NT). The starting note will be either Do, Mi, or Sol.
The soprano will end with either a 7-8 RET or 9-8 SUS over the final tonic chord (label this as well).
There will be both a iii and vi chord in this progression
Label the cadence as well (PAC, IAC, HC, DC)
You may listen as many times as you like!
Harmonic Dictation 2:
B minor, 3/4, 4 measures long.
Write the soprano and bass notes. Write one Roman Numeral per bass note
Bass is mostly quarter notes (but the last note is a dotted half). You’re given the starting note.
Soprano is mostly quarter notes with some 8th notes as passing and neighbor tones (which you’ll need to label as PT or NT). The starting note will be either Do, Me, or Sol.
Label the cadence too (PAC, IAC, HC, DC)
There will be both a III and VI chord in this progression; the V chord could also have a seventh (V7)
You may listen as many times as you like!
Harmonic Dictation 3:
Write the soprano and bass notes. Write one Roman Numeral per bass note
4 measures long in 4/4 meter
A Major, and it will begin on a tonic chord; Soprano will start on Do, Mi, or Sol; Bass will start on Do.
Circle and label any non-chord tones that occur in eighth notes in the Soprano (NT, PT)
Label the cadence at the end of the phrase (PAC, IAC, HC, DC)
Label the sequence heard within the phrase (either D2, D3, or A2). At least 5 or 6 chords will be part of the sequence
You may listen as many times as you like!
Harmonic Dictation 4:
Write the soprano and bass notes. Write one Roman Numeral per bass note
4 measures long in 4/4 meter
G Minor, and it will begin on a tonic chord; Soprano will start on Do, Me, or Sol; Bass will start on Do.
Circle and label any non-chord tones that occur in eighth notes in the Soprano (NT, PT)
Label the cadence at the end of the phrase (PAC, IAC, HC, DC)
Label the sequence heard within the phrase (either D2, D3, or A2). At least 5 or 6 chords will be part of the sequence
You may listen as many times as you like!
