MUSI 268A - Ear Training I

    Recent Professors
    William Edward Jones
    Recent Semesters
    Spring 2025
    Class Size
    24 students
    Credits
    1
    Prerequisite
    MUSI 150A with a Grade of "C" or better, or equivalent
    Spring 2025 Sections
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    Transfers To
    CSU
    Description
    The course is designed to facilitate perception, performance, and identification of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic patterns in music. This course consists of sight singing scales, melodies & rhythms, notating melodies, harmonies & rhythms, and identifying chords & intervals. The emphasis is on the development of basic skills in sight singing and dictation: the sight singing and notating of short diatonic melodies containing seconds, thirds, fourths, fifths & octaves, the identification of major, minor, augmented & diminished triads in root position, harmonic dictation of primary triads in major keys, and rhythmic dictation with duple, triple & quadruple subdivisions of the beat. This course is designed for the music majors and students interested in enhancing technical knowledge and skills in music.