Ear Training Courses

Ear Training 2 – Entering is an advanced placement course that covers the content of Ear Training 1 and Ear Training 2 in one semester. Upon successful completion of the course with a passing grade, students receive credit for both Ear Training 1 and Ear Training 2. Students develop basic ear training skills through performance and dictation; learn to read, perform, recognize, and notate melodies, intervals, harmony, and solfège in major and minor keys; and study rhythms, meters, conducting patterns, and rhythmic notation.

Development of ear training skills through performance and dictation. Study of melodies, intervals, harmony, and solfege in Lydian, Mixolydian, Dorian, and Phrygian modes, mixed modes, and harmonic and melodic minor. Continued study of rhythms, meters, conducting patterns, and notation.

Continuation of ET-211. Modal singing and dictation studies. Interval studies, two- and three-part dictation. Basic atonal melodic studies.

Ear Training 3 for Advanced Placed Entering Students covers the content of Ear Training 1, Ear Training 2, and Ear Training 3 in one semester. On successful completion of the course with a passing grade, you will receive credit for Ear Training 1, 2, and 3. Students develop ear training skills through performance and dictation; learn to read, perform, recognize, and notate melodies, intervals, harmony, and solfège in major and minor keys, including melodic and harmonic minor, and in the Lydian, Mixolydian, Dorian, and Phrygian modes, and mixed modes; and study rhythms, meters, conducting patterns, and rhythmic notation.

Ear Training 4 for Advanced Placed Entering Students is an accelerated course that covers the content of Ear Training 1, 2, 3, and 4 in one semester. On successful completion of the course with a passing grade, you will receive credit for all four courses. Students will pursue advanced study of ear training skills through performance and recognition activities. The moveable-do solfege system will be introduced and applied to the study of major, minor, and modal music. Chromatic functions and syllables are presented through core melodic motives, forming the basis of melodic reading, melodic dictation. Students learn to recognize non-diatonic harmonic progressions using tensions, secondary and substitute dominants, and modulation. Students learn advanced rhythmic concepts through performance and transcription, using conducting patterns and common music notation.

This course will work within the limited scope of progressions including simple root position diatonic harmony, inversions, secondary and extended dominants, II-V patterns, and passing diminished chords. Chord voicings containing one tension will also be covered. This course will include several activiites that address application to real music situations.

This course is a continuation of ET-331. Chord progressions will be more intermediate to complex in nature. The concepts of modal interchange harmony, substitute dominants, and modulation will be introduced. Voicings containing multiple tensions and upper structure triads will also be covered. More extensive transcription work of real music will be incorporated.