MUSC 3110 Aural Skills IV

Course content focuses on melodic, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, sight singing, and keyboard harmony.

Registration Name

Aural Skills IV

Lecture Hours

1

Lab Hours

0

Credits

1

Prerequisite

MUSC 2250, MUSC 2260

Corequisite

MUSC 3100

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following outcome-based learning skills:

• Hear, recognize, identify, and sing scale degrees, scales, modes, melodic and harmonic intervals, three intervals in succession, and rhythms.
• Sight sing melodies using scale degrees and/or solfège syllables.
• Hear, recognize, and identify chords including diatonic seventh chords, secondary chromatic harmonies, Augmented 6th and Neapolitan 6th chords (function, position, and quality), cadences, phrase structure, simple forms, harmonic rhythm, and nonharmonic tones.
• Notate diatonic melodies, two-voice melodies, modulating melodies, melodies with non-diatonic tones, rhythms, and modulating chorale phrases (all four SATB lines; nonharmonic tones and chordal analysis) upon dictation.
• Identify discrepancies between written and audible melodies, rhythms, and in SATB (error detection).
• Transcribe sections of performed music, in specific notes and/or chordal analysis.
• Think critically as it relates to score study and aural analysis of melodic, rhythmic, harmonic, and structural aspects of music.