MUSC 163 - Aural Skills II 1 s.h.

Aural Skills II is a musicianship development course designed to follow the content of MUSC 250, and enhance a student’s musicality through the recognition, mental imaging and vocal performance of a broad range of musical structures. It continues work in the fundamentals of tonal music—scales, rhythmic patterns, modes, triads, seventh chords, and chord patterns—and introduces modulations, non-harmonic tones, inversions of seventh chords, and four-voice chord progressions and patterns. The course utilizes sight singing, harmonic and melodic dictation, keyboard proficiency, and introduces the student to transcribing musical components with music notation software. A-E Only. Offered every Spring semester.