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MUSC 2071 - Advanced Ear Training I

Credits: 2
Hours/Week: Lecture NoneLab None
Course Description: This course is a continuation of MUSC 1072 - Ear Training II . It is designed to help the music student strengthen their advanced musical abilities through focused listening and sight singing. Topics include advanced melodies (chromaticism, non-harmonic tones), advanced rhythms (syncopation, asymmetrical rhythms, dotted rhythms) and advanced chord progressions (7th chords, applied dominants, modulation). This course applies many of the concepts learned concurrently in MUSC 2061 - Advanced Music Theory I .
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): Concurrent enrollment in MUSC 2061  or consent of instructor.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. Advanced chord progressions
    1. 7th chords
  2. Applied dominant chords
  3. Applied leading tone chords
  4. Tonicization
  5. Modulation
  6. Pivot chords
  7. Mediant chords
  8. Subtonic chords
    1. Advanced melodies with non-harmonic tones
  9. chromatic passing tones
  10. chromatic neighboring tones
  11. Advanced rhythms
    1. Triplets
    2. 3/8, 3/2, 4/2 meter
    3. 32nd notes and rests
    4. Dotted 16th notes and rests

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. Write down advanced rhythmic examples (syncopated, etc.) by ear
  2. Write down advanced melodies with non-harmonic tones by ear
  3. Sing advanced melodies with non-harmonic tones at sight
  4. Recognize advanced chord progressions (applied dominants, etc.) by ear
  5. Sing these advanced chord progressions
  6. Tap out these advanced rhythmic examples at sight
  7. Write out these advanced chord progressions by ear


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