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Aural Skills Detail
3 class levels: Aural Skills I, Aural Skills II, Aural Skills III
Student level determined by the teacher, or a brief assessment test
Led by Angelika Machnik-Jones
Classes meet once weekly for 45 minutes
Fee = $125 per semester
Aural Skills I and II: Mondays at 5pm (Aural Skills I) and 6:45 (Aural Skills II)
September 16, 23, 30
October 7, 14, 21, 28
November 4, 11, 18
December 2, 9
Aural Skills III: Saturdays at 12pm
September 14, 21, 28
October 5, 12, 19, 26
November 2, 9, 16
December 7, 14
Aural Skills I
Theoretical knowledge:
o Staff: lines, spaces, added upper and lower lines
o Treble clef: learning notes in treble clef with letter names and solmization
o Bass clef: learning notes in bass clef with letter names and solmization
o Chromatic signs: sharp, flat, natural
o Note values: whole note, half note, dotted half note, quarter note, eighth note, sixteenth note, rests
o Time signatures: 2/4, ¾, 4/4
o Legato, staccato
o Forte, piano
o Fermata, repetition, da capo al fine
o Pitch, rhythm, memory:
o Recognizing whether notes are lower, higher or the same in relation to one another
o Repeating pitches through singing
o Singing a C major scale with letter names and solfege
o Playing C major scale on piano
o Singing a song with good pitch and rhythm
o Singing and writing down very short and simple melodies
o Clapping rhythms, conducting, playing percussion instruments
o Composing simple melodies and rhythms
o Memorizing short and simple melodies and rhythms
Aural Skills II
Theoretical knowledge:
o Intervals: U, m2, M2, m3, M3, P4, P5, P8. Recognizing, singing, building these intervals in C major G major, F major, a minor
o Scales: C major, G major, F major, a minor
o Triads: major, minor. Recognizing, singing, building.
o Tonic Subdominant Dominant progressions on C major, G major, F major, a minor
o Tetrachord
o Leading tone
o Minor scales: natural, harmonic, melodic
o Augmented second
o Rhythms: dotted half note, dotted quarter note, dotted eighth note, triplet, one eighth note two sixteenths, two sixteenths one eighth note
o Dynamics, tempo markings, accelerando, ritardando, ostinato
o Melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, memory, imagination:
o Singing intervals and triads in major and minor scales
o Repeating melodies on different instruments
o Singing harmonies in groups
o Singing scales in canon
o Recognizing the Tonic in a melodic fragment
o Clapping one part rhythms and two part rhythms in groups
o Recognizing strong and weak beats
o Recognizing the meter in melodic fragments
o Memorizing melodic fragments, writing them down from memory
o Singing every second note of a scale or triad progression
o Singing songs from memory, while omitting every second word
o Melodic and rhythmic dictations
Aural Skills III
Theoretical knowledge:
o All simple and compound intervals: recognizing, singing, building in all keys
o Tritone and its resolution
o Triads in root position: major, minor, diminished, augmented.
o Major and minor triads in first and second inversion
o Dominant seventh in root position and all inversions
o Building, recognizing, singing all major and minor scales
o Consonance, dissonance, progression, transposition, homophony, polyphony
o All simple and compound meters
o Chromatic scales: building, recognizing, singing.
o Melody, harmony, tonality, memory, rhythm, imagination, composition:
o Singing all possible intervals, three note chords, four note chords melodically and harmonically in groups
o Creating simple homophonic and polyphonic compositions
o Melodic, harmonic, memory dictations
o Sight-singing in all keys
o Memorizing written out melodies, playing them on given instruments.