In this course, students will develop intermediate skills in aural perception, learning to visualize, sing, and notate music through melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic exercises. Classwork will include singing melodies with solfege (prepared and at sight); performing rhythms, eventually incorporating syncopation, cross-rhythms, small subdivisions, and changing meters; taking melodic and harmonic dictation; writing and singing back short compositions; transcription and analysis of recorded music. Our main focus will be tonal music, including diatonic and chromatic melody.
Learning Outcomes:
Ear training; an ability to sing what you see, and learn music orally.
An ability to transcribe and repeat melodies, and to break down rhythms in order to perform them.
An ability to hear chords and analyze songs in real-time
Delivery Method: Fully in-person
Prerequisites:
Some previous work in ear training or notation. Permission of the instructor - contact: nbrooke@bennington.edu.
Course Level: 4000-level
Credits: 2
Tu 4:10PM - 6:00PM (Full-term)
Maximum Enrollment: 16
Course Frequency: Every 2-3 years
Categories: 4000 , All courses , Fully In-Person , Theory , Two Credit
Tags: Composition , ear training , melody , music , singing , theory