Read and perform written music (sight-reading). Identify and notate heard music (dictation). Continue to advance the skills introduced in Aural Skills I. Aural Skills II content includes aural identification of intervals, primary triads, scales and basic harmonic progressions. Vocal reading includes one and two part vocal lines in major and minor keys with increasing use of large intervals, chromaticism and modulation, using moveable-do solfege and la-based minor. One and two part rhythm drills include subdivisions of the beat using various note values and meters, syncopation, and irregular or changing meters. Dictation exercises include hearing and notating basic diatonic melodies in simple and compound meters with the inclusion of new melodic and rhythmic concepts introduced in this course. Lecture/practice. Upper-level course. Prerequisite: MUSC 2140.
Semester Offered
Spring