MUS 214 Aural Skills 4

Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 2
Credits: 2

Provides instruction in advanced concepts of common-practice period melody, harmony, and rhythm and provides practice in ear training, including but not limited to sight-singing, melodic, harmonic and rhythmic dictation, and intervallic recognition.

Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 (or higher), or completion of WR 090 (or higher); and completion of MUS 116; or consent of the instructor. (All prerequisite courses must be completed with a grade of C or better.)
Student Learning Outcomes:

Demonstrate expertise in movable-do solfège in treble, alto, tenor, and bass clef.
Sing and conduct treble, alto, tenor and bass clef diatonic, chromatic, and modulating melodies in all major and minor modes, with accuracy and appropriate  musical expression.
Perform advanced rhythmic exercises with accuracy and appropriate musical expression.
Sing complex melodies.
Aurally recognize a variety of harmonic vocabulary (triads, intervals, cadences, chord progressions, etc.).
Notate music accurately and efficiently through dictation and transcription assignments.
Sing diatonic triads, all 7th chords, as well as modified pre-dominant sonorities (in relation to a given tonic) in all inversions.
Sing the major and minor scales (all three forms).
Sing all intervals within an octave, as well as all functional compound intervals both ascending and descending.
Sing improvised melodies given diatonic and modulating chord progressions.

Statewide General Education Outcomes:

Interpret and engage in the Arts and Letters, making use of the creative process to enrich the quality of life.
Critically analyze values and ethics within a range of human experience and expression to engage more fully in local and global issues.

Content Outline

Sight-singing Elements
- Secondary dominants
- Leading tone chords
- Neapolitan chords
- Augmented sixth chords
- Extended and altered dominant chords
- Modulation to closely related keys
- Modulation to distantly related keys
Dictation Elements
- Secondary dominants
- Leading tone chords
- Neapolitan chords
- Augmented sixth chords
- Extended and altered dominant chords
- Modulation to closely related keys
- Modulation to distantly related keys
Rhythm Elements
- Triplets and duplets in augmentation and diminution
- Divisions of the beat into numbers greater than four