Ear Training 5
Course Number:
MUSC&222
Course Credits:
2.00
Course Description:
Intermediate listening, melodic and harmonic dictation, seventh chord identification and use within harmonic progressions, sight singing and part singing. 2 lecture hours. Satisfies specified elective requirement for the AA degree.
Course Prerequisites:
Recommended Preparation: Concurrent enrollment in MUSIC 232. Prerequisite: MUSC& 221.
Course Outcomes:
The goals of this course are to improve students’ performance in the following areas:
- Comprehend elementary note reading, rhythm reading, keyboard identification, interval identification, chord building, scale building, cadence identification, and conventional part-writing procedures for tonic, dominant and subdominant triads.
- Analyze and synthesize the above-mentioned elements of music.
- Think critically about the elements of music.
- Work with other classmates to solve harmonizing and voicing problems.
- Think critically about analytical issues in music and about one’s own responses.
- Develop essays from critical and analytical responses to the text and to class discussions as well as outside research.
- Analyze and synthesize ideas from listening to live performances. Develop critical and analytical responses to those performances.