Week 6 — Skills Check · Intervals Outward I
Course: MUS 155 Aural Skills I · Kenosis College
Instructor: Professor Hemsworth
Unit: Learning Unit 6 of 15 (Week 6) · two sessions per week
Objectives tested: SLO 3 (identify by ear) · SLO 4 (judge paired hearings by ear)
Points: 8 (8 × 1) · Group: Skills checks (lowest 2 of 13 dropped) · In class, session 2, live stimulus, closed to AI. Answers go in through the Canvas quiz tool on your own device; every stimulus is performed live in the room.
The import-ready item file is rendered by the build system from
_build/banks/lu-06.json; that bank also holds this unit's six pool items, which test the same skills with different stimuli and never appear on the weekly check. This page describes the check — the stimuli themselves exist only as session 2's live sound.
What it is
Eight questions, all ears, about fourteen minutes at the end of session 2's studio. Professor Hemsworth performs every stimulus live from a fixed script — announced by number, two hearings (melodies: three), a pause for answering after the final hearing. Every move is one you practiced that same morning: name a gap going up, name a gap going down, compare two gaps, and catch a two-bar melody whose one leap is the whole story.
Blueprint
The table below maps the item families to what your ear does and the outcome each serves.
| Items | Family | What your ear does | Objective |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Rising interval | Two tones, low to high; name the gap from this week's six | SLO 3 |
| 2 | Falling interval | Two tones, high to low; same six names, upside down | SLO 3 |
| 2 | Same or different quality | Two gaps in a row; say whether the second matches the first exactly or changes size or quality | SLO 4 |
| 2 | The featured leap | A two-bar melody (one major, one minor) built around one leap; pick the solfège string that matches what you heard | SLO 3 |
Wrong options come from the real ways ears slip this week — a leap mis-sized by one rung, a quality blurred, a mode flipped. If you ran the ladder daily, the check is confirmation, not a hurdle.
Ground rules
Closed to AI, closed to notes, closed to neighbors. Phones face-down except for answering. Nothing is written during a hearing; listen first, answer after. Group-administered: everyone answers the same live hearings at the same moment, so it runs identically at four students or forty.
Absent for session 2?
The primary make-up is a live administration in office hours — same script, same hearings, performed for you by Professor Hemsworth. Email her to schedule it within the week.
Self-administered variant (only where scheduling truly cannot work): recruit a musician who can play short patterns accurately from a card. Your partner contacts Professor Hemsworth directly and receives the parallel performance cards (they never pass through your hands), performs each stimulus per its script — announced by number, scripted hearings, pause, answer — while you take the parallel items through the same Canvas tool, and signs the attestation line confirming the stimuli were performed as scripted and unseen by you. Process and honesty are the graded substance; the ear it certifies is still yours. If no partner is available, arrange an office-hours make-up hearing instead — the late-work policy's standing path. This week only, one more door: interval-ID items may be self-administered through the Tools-page trainer — Toned Ear, with the exact settings pinned on this week's Tools page — with the session-results screen submitted as evidence.
Canvas placement block
canvas_object = classic assessment, delivered via the Canvas quiz tool
title = "Unit 6 Skills Check — Intervals Outward I"
assignment_group = "Skills checks"
points_possible = 8
allowed_attempts = 1
access = opens in session 2; live administration only
published = true
F-skills-check-week-06-qti.xml) ships inside the course's .imscc package — it lands in the Canvas gradebook on import.~ Professor Hemsworth's edition · Kenosis College · built with thecoursemaker.com