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MUSC& 121: Ear Training 1

2 Cr
Quarters: F
This course is designed to prepare students in singing, sight singing and dictation skills necessary for the performance and teaching of tonal music.  A focus will be on basic rhythmic dictation, major intervals, basic conducting patterns, solfege/note names, major scales, major triads, basic melodic dictation, basic chordal progressions and practical keyboard applications.  This course supplements corresponding music theory and will serve as a lab reinforcing the aural components.  This is the first in a sequence of six classes required for all music majors pursuing a Music AA-DTA.    
Prerequisite: Completion of MUS 100  or permission of instructor.   
Distribution for DTA: Humanities