Ear Training Courses
Ear Training 1
Students develop basic ear training skills through performance and dictation. They study melodies, intervals, harmony, and solfege in major keys, as well as basic rhythms in the most common meters.
Ear Training 2
Students further develop basic ear training skills through performance and dictation and study melodies, intervals, harmony, and solfege in minor keys, as well as more advanced rhythms, meters, conducting patterns, and notation.
Ear Training 2 for Entering Students
Ear Training 2 – Entering is an advanced placement course that covers the content of Ear Training 1 and Ear Training 2 in one semester. Upon successful completion of the course with a passing grade, students receive credit for both Ear Training 1 and Ear Training 2. Students develop basic ear training skills through performance and dictation; learn to read, perform, recognize, and notate melodies, intervals, harmony, and solfège in major and minor keys; and study rhythms, meters, conducting patterns, and rhythmic notation.
Ear Training 3
Development of ear training skills through performance and dictation. Study of melodies, intervals, harmony, and solfege in Lydian, Mixolydian, Dorian, and Phrygian modes, mixed modes, and harmonic and melodic minor. Continued study of rhythms, meters, conducting patterns, and notation.
Ear Training 4
Continuation of ET-211. Modal singing and dictation studies. Interval studies, two- and three-part dictation. Basic atonal melodic studies.
Ear Training 3 for Entering Students
Ear Training 3 for Advanced Placed Entering Students covers the content of Ear Training 1, Ear Training 2, and Ear Training 3 in one semester. On successful completion of the course with a passing grade, you will receive credit for Ear Training 1, 2, and 3. Students develop ear training skills through performance and dictation; learn to read, perform, recognize, and notate melodies, intervals, harmony, and solfège in major and minor keys, including melodic and harmonic minor, and in the Lydian, Mixolydian, Dorian, and Phrygian modes, and mixed modes; and study rhythms, meters, conducting patterns, and rhythmic notation.
Ear Training 4 for Entering Students
Ear Training 4 for Advanced Placed Entering Students is an accelerated course that covers the content of Ear Training 1, 2, 3, and 4 in one semester. On successful completion of the course with a passing grade, you will receive credit for all four courses. Students will pursue advanced study of ear training skills through performance and recognition activities. The moveable-do solfege system will be introduced and applied to the study of major, minor, and modal music. Chromatic functions and syllables are presented through core melodic motives, forming the basis of melodic reading, melodic dictation. Students learn to recognize non-diatonic harmonic progressions using tensions, secondary and substitute dominants, and modulation. Students learn advanced rhythmic concepts through performance and transcription, using conducting patterns and common music notation.
Solfege 1
This course develops students' sight-singing skills using the traditional movable "do" method through drills in rhythm, interval, and pitch, as well as singing exercises in major keys through four sharps and four flats in G and F clefs. This course includes some studies in minor keys, harmonic studies, part singing, and contrapuntal and harmonic dictation.
Solfege 2
Students continue their study of sight-singing and harmonic studies in all major and minor keys, as well as C clef drills and rhythm patterns of increased complexity.
World Music Ear Training
Harmonic Ear Training 1
This course will work within the limited scope of progressions including simple root position diatonic harmony, inversions, secondary and extended dominants, II-V patterns, and passing diminished chords. Chord voicings containing one tension will also be covered. This course will include several activiites that address application to real music situations.
Harmonic Ear Training 2
This course is a continuation of ET-331. Chord progressions will be more intermediate to complex in nature. The concepts of modal interchange harmony, substitute dominants, and modulation will be introduced. Voicings containing multiple tensions and upper structure triads will also be covered. More extensive transcription work of real music will be incorporated.