Mar 28, 2024  
Yakima Valley College Catalog 2020-2021 
    
Yakima Valley College Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MUSC& 121: Ear Training 1

2 Cr
Quarters: F
This course is designed to prepare students in singing, sightsinging and dictation skills necessary for the performance and teaching of tonal music.  This course focuses on basic rhythmic dictation, major intervals, basic conducting patterns, solfege/note names, major scales, 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 persuing a Music AA-DTA.    
Prerequisite: Completion of MUS 100  or permission of instructor.   
Distribution for DTA: Humanities