MUS 145A - Aural Skills 2

Description:
Basic fundamental concepts of common-practice period melody, harmony, and rhythm through ear training, sight-singing, dictation, rhythm, and basic keyboard applications. This course is the second in the three quarter, first year aural skills sequence. Courses must be taken in sequence.

Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: MUS 144 and MUS 144A with grades of C or higher. Co-requisite: MUS 145A and MUS 152A or MUS 153A.

Credits: (1)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Apply fundamental concepts through aural comprehension and identification of clefs, scales, key signatures, intervals, triads, seventh chords, figured bass, phrase structure, and cadence types.
Notate short melodic and harmonic diatonic dictation exercises.
Perform a variety of rhythmic patterns at sight.
Sing, using solfege, major and minor scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, and short tonal melodies.

Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
2/17/2011

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