Advanced Aural Skills: French Music, Belle Epoque to 1950

Catalog description

Techniques of music listening developed through sight-singing, transcription, and aural analysis. Topics are coordinated with the co-requisite course, Advanced Theory & Practice: French Music and include French dances and other large forms, added and extended chords, embellishing chords, the “cadence Fauréenne,” modes and pentatonic collections, and Messiaen’s “additive” rhythms and “modes of limited transposition.” Students will learn aural strategies for describing form, characteristic features of French dance, and stylistic and regional influences.