MUS 155 — MUS 155
Aural Skills I This course focuses on skills to enhance performance through the recognition, mental imaging and vocal performance of a broad range of musical structures. The course begins with the fundamentals of tonal music, scales, rhythmic patterns, intervals, modes, triads, seventh chords, and chord patterns. Students are trained to aurally recognize, notate and vocally reproduce these elements. The course also emphasizes sight singing, harmonic, rhythmic and melodic dictation and the use of solfège as a learning and study tool. PR: MUS 151, Acceptance into music degree program. MUS 151 may be taken concurrently.