May 20, 2025  
Yakima Valley College Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Yakima Valley College Catalog 2024-2025

MUSC& 222: Ear Training 5

2 Cr
Quarters: W
This course is designed to prepare students in singing, sight singing, and dictation necessary for the performance and teaching of tonal music.  A focus will be on advanced rhythmic dictation, descending intervals, advanced conducting patterns, chromatic solfege/note names, scales, M m + * chords including 7th chords with inversions, 3-voice melodic dictation in a 4-part texture with chordal analysis, advanced chordal progressions, cadences, mode mixture, modulations, and practical keyboard applications.  This course supplements corresponding music theory and will serve as a lab reinforcing the aural components.  This is the fifth in a sequence of six classes required for all music majors pursuing a Music AA-DTA.                                               
Prerequisite: Completion of MUSC& 221  with a grade of C or better.
Distribution for DTA: Humanities