Advanced Aural Skills: 20th and 21st Century

(1 Credit)

Continued development of sight-singing, dictation, and aural analysis skills developed in the prerequisite course, Advanced Aural Skills: Chromatic Harmony. Students will critically listen to, transcribe, and perform music incorporating modes, chromatic and jazz harmony, extended tonality, and atonality. Advanced rhythmic topics include polyrhythm, syncopation, swing, mixed meter, and metric modulation.