MUTH 101 - Aural Skills I

HC CNDP

2 credits
Development of aural understanding through singing, conducting, improvisation, and listening. Topics studied include the melodic line, simple two-line combinations, rhythmic phrases, scales and triads, tonic predominant and dominant arpeggiation, diatonic intervals, simple and compound meters, treble and bass clefs, cadences, phrases, sentences, and periods. Placement by Aural Skills/Sight-Singing Test 1. Preference given to students for whom aural skills is a required subject. (Normally ESOL 120 is required for students in the ESOL sequence, however exceptions will be considered by the Division Director for Music Theory and the ESOL Program Director.)

Prerequisites: ESOL 120 (for students in ESOL sequence).