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MUSC 1203 includes continuing practice with all content in MUSC 1103. Increased fluency and accuracy is expected in MUSC 1203.

Content specific to MUSC 1203 includes: 

1. Pitch-related content
• Identification of melodic (ascending and descending) and harmonic intervals up to the P8
• Singing drills and exercises with intervals and broken chord patterns
• Diatonic melodies including leaps of 6ths and 7ths
• Diatonic melodies with leaps between members of the subdominant triad and dominant seventh chord
• Melodies with more complex rhythms
• Identification of major and minor triads in 1^st and 2^nd inversions
• Identification of chords in four-part style in open spacing
• Identifying root-position seventh chords
• Chord qualities in major and minor keys 
• I-IV-V progressions in major and minor keys, with and without bass line transcription
• Cadence identification (authentic, half, plagal, deceptive)
• More complex ensemble singing exercises 
2. Meter and rhythm-related content
• Dictation and performance of rhythmic patterns in both simple and compound meters which include subdivided beats, uneven beat divisions, and syncopation
• Reading with less-familiar beat units
• More complex ensemble rhythm reading demonstrations
3. Musicianship Skills:
• increasing fluency with a relative pitch labelling system (e.g., movable-doh solfège or scale degree numbers)
• Pitch mapping: building a tonal network by aligning solfège syllables with note names in several different major and minor keys 
• increasing fluency with Curwen hand signs
• increasing fluency with a rhythm labelling system (e.g. Takadimi syllables)
• Continuing use of conducting patterns