Week 12 — Skills Check · Harmonic Listening II
Course: MUS 155 Aural Skills I · Kenosis College
Instructor: Professor Hemsworth
Unit: Learning Unit 12 of 15 (Week 12) · two sessions per week
Objectives tested: SLO 3 (identify cadence type and phrase relationships 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-12.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. Every stimulus is a short chord progression or phrase pair performed live from a fixed script — announced by number, key planted first with the do ritual, played twice, answers after the second hearing. Everything on it is the same game the studio plays all week: where does the phrase land, and what kind of stop is it?
Blueprint
The table maps the item families to what your ear does and the outcome each serves.
| Items | Family | What your ear does | Objective |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Cadence ID | A progression lands; name the stop — authentic, deceptive, plagal, or half | SLO 3 |
| 2 | Finished or unfinished | A phrase ends; judge how closed it is — fully shut, closed-but-off-home, or parked on the away chord | SLO 3 |
| 1 | Expected bass | The progression stops one chord early; choose the bass note your ear expects next | SLO 3 |
| 2 | Phrase pair | Two phrases sound; call their relationship — question then answer, or the reverse | SLO 3 |
Wrong-answer options come from the real ways cadence ears slip — the bass-moved-so-it's-home vote, the do-on-the-bottom-means-finished vote, the half cadence read as a breakdown. If you sang the expected notes in the studio, this 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 answered during a hearing; listen first, answer after the second hearing. The check is group-administered: everyone answers the same live hearings at the same moment, so it runs identically whether the room holds four 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 chord progressions accurately from a card — a bandmate, a worship-team keyboardist, a choir accompanist. Your partner contacts Professor Hemsworth directly and receives the parallel performance cards (they never pass through your hands); your partner performs each stimulus per its script — announced by number, two hearings, pause — while you take the parallel items through the same Canvas tool; your partner 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.
Canvas placement block
canvas_object = classic assessment, delivered via the Canvas quiz tool
title = "Unit 12 Skills Check — Harmonic Listening II"
assignment_group = "Skills checks"
points_possible = 8
allowed_attempts = 1
access = opens in session 2; live administration only
published = true
F-skills-check-week-12-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