MUS 126 Aural Skills II

Lecture: 0 Lab: 2 Clinic: 0 Credits: 1

This course provides a foundation in aural skills. Emphasis is placed on the development of sight singing and ear training skills in diatonic melody, diatonic harmonic progression, and rhythmic patterns. Upon completion, students should be able to fluently read music in treble and bass clefs; utilize any solmization system while sight singing simple diatonic melodies; identify elementary diatonic chord progressions; perform rhythms in simple and compound meters; and dictate diatonic melodic, diatonic harmonic, and advanced rhythmic patterns.

This course has been approved for transfer under the CAA as a premajor and/or elective course requirement.

Pre-requisite(s): MUS 125
Co-requisite(s): MUS 122
Course is typically offered in Spring.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
At the completion of the course, the students should be able to do the following:

Actively engage ears, voices, and individual instruments to create quicker and more efficient methods of reading music and playing in tune.
Develop advanced music rudiments in simple and compound meters.
Demonstrate advanced audiation, sing and dictate intervals by size and quality.
Demonstrate advanced audiation, sing and dictate tonic and dominate triads.
Dictate advanced melodic patterns, including scalar patterns, and skips within tonic and dominate triads.
Synthesize advanced Roman numeral analysis in conjunction with sight singing and harmonic dictation.
Demonstrate personal responsibility through regular attendance, timely assignment completion, and full participation in class.