| Ear Training Ear Training Sequence Ear Training 1 Ear Training 2 Ear Training 3 Ear Training 4 ________________________________________________________________________________ Ear Training Sequence The four semester 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 MU113 sections meet together on Fridays for Dictation. 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. Students who fail Section 1 of the Ear Training placement exam given during Orientation week are required to take MU340 Dalcroze Eurhythmics in the fall semester of the freshman year. ______________________________________________________________________ back to top Ear Training 1 MU113 Fall Semester 2008 Credits: 2 Prerequisites: none Course Objectives Sightsinging and Rhythm fluency in and understanding of • treble and bass clefs • singing and conducting in simple meters (2/8, 2/4, 3/8, 3/4, 4/8, 4/4, etc.) • fixed do solfége syllables applied to non-modulating major and minor melodies • tied notes, dotted notes, and syncopation MELODIA Series 1 and 2 Aural Analysis aural recognition and identification of • simple harmonic progression in major and minor keys • triad qualities (major, minor, diminished, augmented) • scale types (major, natural minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor) • all intervals within the octave· simple meters (2/8, 2/4, 3/8, 3/4, 4/8, 4/4, etc.) • compound meters (6/16, 6/8, 9/16, 9/8, 12/16, 12/8) Dictation transcription of • non-modulating tonal melodies • 1st and 2nd Species counterpoint • rhythmic dictation incorporating ties, dotted notes, and syncopation 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 371 FOUR-PART CHORALESJohann Sebastian Bach Alfred Publishing Company, 1985 ISBN: 9780769240916 |
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| ______________________________________________________________________ back to top Ear Training 2 MU114 Spring Semester 2009 Credits: 2 Prerequisites: Ear Training 1 or placement Course Objectives Sightsinging and Rhythm fluency in and understanding of • alto and tenor clef • ledger lines • singing and conducting in compound meters • simple meters in two parts • fixed do solfége syllables applied to modulating major and minor melodies • scales and arpeggiated triads • all intervals within the octave • triplets and sextuplets MELODIA Series 3 and 4 Aural Analysis Dictation |
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| ______________________________________________________________________ back to top Ear Training 3 MU213 Fall Semester 2008 Credits: 2 Prerequisites: Ear Training 2 or placement Course Objectives Sightsinging and Rhythm fluency in and understanding of • changing clefs • crossing parts • singing and conducting in irregular meters • fixed do solfége syllables applied to extended modulations • seventh chords • intervals larger than an octave • quintuplets and septuplets • dotted and tied duplets MELODIYA Series 5 and 6 Aural Analysis Dictation |
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| ______________________________________________________________________ back to top Ear Training 4 MU214 Spring Semester 2009 Credits: 2 Prerequisites: Ear Training 3 or placement Course Objectives Sightsinging and Rhythm fluency in and understanding of • singing and conducting in changing meters • irregular and mixed meters in three parts • fixed do solfége syllables applied to simple atonal melodies • fixed do solfége syllables applied to church mode melodies • fixed do solfége syllables applied to melodies utilizing mode mixture • wholetone, pentatonic, and octatonic melodies MELODIYA Series 7 and 8 Aural Analysis Dictation |
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