MUSC 2281 Ear Training 3
Continued development of aural skills reinforces foundational musicianship required for the professional musician or any musician that desires improvement. These skills apply to all instrumentalists and vocalists. In this third part of a 4-semester sequence, students will further extend their aural skills to demonstrate abilities such as: reading at sight; aural recognition of sound patterns through interval and rhythm reading that further divide the beat; keyboard performance of secondary dominants and secondary leading tone seventh chords; dictation containing simple and compound meters with irregular divisions of the beat; and sight singing augmented, diminished, and enharmonic intervals. This course is intended for music majors and minors, or the prepared student who desires a rigorous aural training. Typically, these would be students who have studied music through high school or community programs.