Course Description
Summary
In this course, students will develop intermediate skills in aural perception, learning to visualize, sing, and notate music through melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic exercises. Classwork will include singing melodies with solfege (prepared and at sight); performing rhythms, eventually incorporating syncopation, cross-rhythms, small subdivisions, and changing meters; taking melodic and harmonic dictation; writing and singing back short compositions; transcription and analysis of recorded music. Our main focus will be tonal music, including diatonic and chromatic melody.
