Aural Musicianship 2

1.5 credits

The primary goal of aural musicianship study at the Eastman School of Music is to know musical space as comfortably and intuitively as one knows the shapes and contours of a familiar room. Musicianship training enables 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.