MUS 146A - Aural Skills 3

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 third in the three quarter, first year aural skills sequence. Courses must be taken in sequence.

Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: MUS 145 and MUS 145A with grades of C or higher. Co-requisite: MUS 146A and MUS 154A or MUS 153A or MUS 154A.

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, and cadence types.
Apply fundamental concepts through aural comprehension and identification of non-chord tones (embellishing tones), resolution of dominant seventh chords, diatonic seventh chords, and texture types.
Perform a variety of rhythmic patterns at sight.
Sing, using solfege, major and minor scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, and short tonal melodies.
Notate short melodic and harmonic diatonic dictation exercises.

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