Graduate Review of Aural Skills

Catalog description

This course reviews material covered in a standard undergraduate aural skills sequence in preparation for graduate-level coursework in music. Topics covered include listening for instrumentation, formal structures, melodic and rhythmic sight-singing, error-detection, improvisation, and chord dictation with diatonic and chromatic harmony including secondary dominants and modulation. Rhythm topics include subdivisions in simple and compound time, syncopation, ties, and 2:3 polyrhythms. This course does not count towards graduate degree requirements.