Aural Musicianship 1

2.0 credits

This course is designed for students identified through placement examinations as needing additional work on the basics of aural musicianship. The course’s primary goal is to bolster the skills required for students to flourish in subsequent musicianship studies: training musicians to map sound to symbol, symbol to sound, to process what they are hearing in real time, and to remain oriented in musical space. The first course in the sequence will emphasize strategies for accurate and expressive reading, improvisation, singing, and dictation using elementary rhythms and diatonic pitch materials in treble and bass clefs