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Yakima Valley College Catalog 2024-2025

MUSC& 223: Ear Training 6

2 Cr
Quarters: S
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 advanced rhythmic dictation, compound intervals, conducting patterns, chromatic solfege/note names, +6 chords including 7th chords with inversions, secondary-function chords 3-voice melodic dictation in a 4-part texture with chordal analysis, advanced chordal progressions, cadences, mode mixture, secondary dominants (with inversions), modulations and practical keyboard applications.  This course supplements corresponding music theory and will serve as a lab reinforcing the aural components.  This is the sixth in a sequence of six classes required for all music majors pursuing a Music AA-DTA. 

 
Prerequisite: Completion of MUSC& 222  with a grade of C or better.  
Distribution for DTA: Humanities