MUS 115 Aural Skills III

A course for students to continue to develop some of the most important skills a musician should have. The skills in this course will build on the skills learned in MUS 114: Aural Skills II. Students will concentrate on their abilities to hear relationships in music, notate music correctly and to audiate written notation including dictation exercises and sight-singing. This course is intended for both music and non-music major. Music majors should take this course with MUS 123.

Credits

Prerequisite

MUS 114 Aural Skills II with a grade of C or better.

Corequisite

Music Majors must take MUS 123 concurrently with this course.

Notes

Lower Division Transfer (LDT) Course

Outcomes

Analyze and perform complex rhythms, including those with syncopation and tuplets, and accurately dictate simple rhythms. Recognize and sing all simple intervals, including the tritone and major/minor sevenths, in both melodic and harmonic contexts. Evaluate and identify all triad and seventh chord types (including diminished and half/fully-diminished sevenths) and resolve the dominant seventh chord. Apply advanced reading and listening skills by sight-reading in multiple keys and successfully completing diatonic melodic and harmonic dictation.