Course: MUS 155 Aural Skills I · Kenosis College
Instructor: Professor Hemsworth
Unit: Learning Unit 14 of 15 (Week 14) · two sessions per week
Objectives: SLO 1 · SLO 2 · SLO 3 · SLO 5

Two pieces: (A) the Unit 14 Overview page and (B) the Announcement. All timing uses the course's tokens.

(A) Week 14 Overview — Start Here

Welcome to Unit 14: Embellishment and the Outer Voices

The last new-material week. You sing a plain two-voice frame, then hear it flowered — and you point at each extra note and say what it does before you name it: passing, neighbor, suspension. Add the four-bar outer-voice dictation and the climax hearing on two great melodies. And because the break sits just before the final: your break maintenance card — 10 minutes a day, five days, voice alone.

Work the table top to bottom.

The late-work policy is in the syllabus.

Why this makes you a better musician

Every great melody is a frame wearing flowers. Now you can hear which notes are skeleton and which are grace — so you learn songs faster, harmonize smarter, and write the fill that leans exactly where you want it.

How to succeed: the daily loop now, the break card next week — ten minutes protects fourteen weeks.

(B) Announcement — Week 14

Subject: Point at the extra note — then keep your ear warm

Hi everyone,

The last new material, and the most musical week yet: sing a plain frame, hear it decorated, name the decorations by what they do. Session 2 brings the last weekly skills check — and your break maintenance card. Nine days of silence sit between us and the final, and a singing voice fades fast; 10 minutes a day over the break keeps it all. Two-line log, honor system — I trust you with it.

Do Tutorial 14 before session 1; recordings, practice, and diagnosis close at the end of the week. Next: Cumulative — the movable frame — everything, on stage.

See you in the studio,
Professor Hemsworth

Canvas placement block

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published        = true
module_position  = first item in the Unit 14 module

# (B) Announcement
canvas_object    = Announcement
title            = "Point at the extra note — then keep your ear warm"
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discussion_type  = side_comment
delayed_post_at  = module opening day (drip; offset 0 from module start)
# Announcements are NEVER module items — Canvas rejects them as module content.
# They live in the Announcements stream only; do not add this to the Unit 14 module.