Ear Training
Ear Training Sequence
Ear Training 1
Ear Training 2
Ear Training 3
Ear Training 4
Ear Training 5
Ear Training 6

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Ear Training Sequence
The Ear Training sequence gradually introduces increasingly advanced rhythms, melodies, textures, and chords in order to provide students with the skills needed to hear music internally, to notate what is heard, and to aurally recognize the harmonic, formal, and rhythmic structures of music. Classroom time is largely devoted to sightsinging and aural analysis. All Ear Training 1 and 2 sections meet together on Fridays for a 25 minute Dictation session, followed by a second Dictation session for all Ear Training 3 and 4 sections.

Students are required to take four semesters of Ear Training. Typically, entering students will take Ear Training 1, 2, 3, and 4. However, some more advanced students who place out of Ear Training 1 and 2 will instead take Ear Training 3, 4, 5, and 6. Ear Training 5 and 6 may also be taken as electives by students who have passed Ear Training 4.

Ear Training requires active participation and consistent practice. For this reason students are urged to take every opportunity to hone their skills, applying them whenever possible to your own musicmaking and study of music; assigned performance pieces, harmony and counterpoint exercises, keyboard theory practice, concert attendance, etc. Using these ear training skills regularly in your day to day musical life will dramatically improve your ability to succeed in this course.

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Ear Training 1
MU113
Fall Semester 2009
Credits: 2
Prerequisites: none

Course Objectives
Sightsinging and Rhythm
fluency in and understanding of
• treble and bass clefs           
• singing and conducting in simple meters           
• fixed do solfége syllables applied to simple, non-modulating major and minor melodies

Aural Analysis
aural recognition and identification of
• simple harmonic progression in major and minor keys
• scale types
• simple meters

Dictation
transcription of
• non-modulating tonal melodies
• simple meters
• triads
• simple harmonic movement

Textbooks
Required texts are available online from www.textbookx.com
MELODIA: A COURSE IN SIGHTSINGING
Samuel Cole and Leo Lewis
Theodore Presser Co., 2004
ISBN: 9789200129384

TBC RHYTHM BOOK
available from the Music Division Office

Aural Analysis
aural recognition and identification of
• simple harmonic progression in major and minor keys
• triad qualities
• simple meters
• compound meters

Dictation
transcription of
• non-modulating tonal melodies including non-chord tones
• 1st and 2nd Species counterpoint
• simple and compound meters with ties, triplets and syncopations
• an outer and an inner voice from a 4-part chorale

Textbooks
MELODIA: A COURSE IN SIGHTSINGING
TBC RHYTHM BOOK
371 FOUR-PART CHORALES
AN ENGLISH MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SONG BOOK
see MU113 Ear Training 1

Aural Analysis
aural recognition and identification of
• secondary dominants
• cadences
• seventh chords
• second inversion triad usage
• all chromatic intervals within the octave
• non-chord tones
• large intervals
• irregular meters
           
Dictation
transcription of
• modulating tonal melodies                       
• 3rd and 4th Species counterpoint
• 2 voice canons
• an outer and an inner voice from a 4-part chorale
• irregular meters with ties, dotted notes, quintuplets, and syncopations

Textbooks
MELODIA: A COURSE IN SIGHTSINGING
TBC RHYTHM BOOK
371 FOUR-PART CHORALES
AN ENGLISH MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SONG BOOK
see MU113 Ear Training 1

Aural Analysis
aural recognition and identification of
• modulation by common tone, altered chord, and sequence
• Neapolitan and augmented sixth chords
• mode mixture
• large intervals           
• irregular meters
• changing meters
• phrases and periods
• binary and ternary form

Dictation
transcription of
• 3-part and 4-part chorales
• modulating tonal melodies incorporating chromaticism and leaps
• baroque counterpoint
• changing meters with ties, dotted notes, quintuplets, and syncopations
• rhythmic dictation in two parts

Textbooks
MELODIA: A COURSE IN SIGHTSINGING
TBC RHYTHM BOOK
371 FOUR-PART CHORALES
AN ENGLISH MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SONG BOOK
see MU113 Ear Training 1

Aural Analysis
aural recognition and identification of
• tone rows, retrogrades, inversions
• borrowed chords
• church modes
• wholetone, pentatonic, and  octatonic scales

Dictation
transcription of
• atonal melodies incorporating large intervallic leaps
• rhythmic dictation of irregular meters in two and three parts

Textbooks
Required texts are available online from www.textbookx.com
MODUS NOVUS
Lars Edlund
Beekman Books, 1990
ISBN: 9780846441564