MUS 224 - Aural Skills IV

(MUS224, MUS 225 , and MUS 226  must be taken in sequence, unless Instructor permission is granted.)

Corequisite(s): MUS 211  

(This Aural Skills sequence should be taken concurrently with the Music Theory sequence of MUS 211 , MUS 212 , and MUS 213 .)

Course Description: Aural Skills IV is a continuation of MUS 116  and serves to augment the subject matter in MUS 211  with an emphasis on musical aural/oral training. Students develop their ability to hear, identify, and sing intervallic, tertial, melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic patterns in music. Through in-class study and drill, combined with out-of-class computer-assisted learning and self-guided practice, students will develop skills in sight singing and aural transcription with a focus on dominant and non-dominant seventh chords in all positions, leading tone seventh chords in root position, and perceiving tonicization and modulation in chord progressions and melodies. This course is designed to be taken with MUS 211  concurrently.

Course Level: Lower Division Collegiate

Course Learning Outcomes:

• CLO#1: Aurally identify and sing examples of simple and compound intervals, major and minor scales, triadic chord qualities, dominant/non-dominant/leading-tone 7th-chord qualities, secondary dominant/leading-tone 7th-chords, modulations to near keys, and simple/compound time signatures. (ILO: Critical Thinking)
• CLO#2: Transcribe melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic material from dictated music examples.
• CLO#3: Sight-sing/transcribe tonal melodies and chord progressions (both modulating and non- modulating), and rhythmic exercises.
• CLO#4: Recognize musical patterns and detect errors in music examples.