MUS 116 - Aural Skills III

1 Credit(s)

Prerequisite(s): MUS 115 (MUS 114, MUS 115, MUS116 must be taken in sequence, unless Instructor permission is granted.) This Aural Skills sequence should be taken concurrently with the Music Theory sequence of MUS 111, MUS 112, MUS 113.

Corequisite(s): MUS 113

Course Description: This third of a three-term sequence provides instruction and practice in more advanced sight-reading, sight-singing, and ear-training. It includes more complex melodic and rhythmic dictation as well as wider intervallic recognition. It covers more variety of rhythm, simple and compound meter, major and minor tonalities, diatonic scales and modal scales, triads and seventh chords, and cadences. Non-chord tones and secondary dominant chords will be explored. This course is designed to be taken with MUS 113 concurrently.

Course Level: Lower Division Collegiate

Course Learning Outcomes:

CLO#1: Demonstrate an ability to dictate complex melodies based on various intervallic structures and keys. (ILO: Critical Thinking)
CLO#2: Demonstrate an ability to dictate complex rhythm based on various meters.
CLO#3: Demonstrate an ability to sight-sing and sight-read with accuracy.
CLO#4: Demonstrate an understanding of non chord tones and secondary dominant chords.