Ear Training 1
Ear Training 1 is the first of a series of four required courses that are designed to help you learn essential musicianship skills applicable to all styles of music: the ability to accurately recognize, imagine, remember, and notate musical sounds, and the ability to read music notation. Through guided practice of ear training techniques, your musical perception and performance will become more accurate and you will become more fluent in translating sound into notation and notation into sound.
The techniques for learning ear training—moveable-Do solfège, conducting, counting systems, and dictation techniques—are time-tested aids for the development of these musicianship skills. The skills you will learn will be useful in composition, arranging, production, learning new repertoire, and bandleading; improvisation and musical interaction in performance; and improved music perception in listening.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- perform, recognize, transcribe, and notate rhythms in 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 meters, including 16th notes, accurately using conducting patterns
- sight-sing, perform, recognize, transcribe, and notate major melodies in keys up to two sharps or two flats, in treble and bass clefs, accurately using moveable-Do solfège syllables and conducting patterns
- recognize, transcribe, and notate major-key tonal chord progressions using triads, V7, and V7sus4 in root position
- imagine (audiate, using inner hearing) pitches in major keys, melodically and harmonically, and apply that skill to music performance, improvisation, and composition
Syllabus
Lesson 1 Getting Organized: Sound, Notation, and Function
Lesson 2 Moving Forward: Mapping Subdivisions, Bass Clef Melodies
Lesson 3 Navigating Leaps and Notating in 4/4
Lesson 4 The Tendency to Resolve: Tendency Tones, Basic Chord Functions
Lesson 5 Wider Leaps and Finer Subdivisions
Lesson 6 Midterm Review and Assessment
Lesson 7 Expectation and Surprise: Syncopation and Indirect Resolution
Lesson 8 New Colors
Lesson 9 Up, Down, and Around: 6ths and 16ths
Lesson 10 Forms and Cycles
Lesson 11 Putting It All Together
Lesson 12 Final Assignment and Final Project, Final Exam
Requirements
Prerequisites and Course-Specific Requirements
Completion of Music Foundations or Basic Ear Training or equivalent knowledge and experience is required.
Students should be able to:
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