740-140 Aural Studies

Students will continue to develop the inner hearing to the point where there is no gulf between reading notated music and the experience of the music itself. To this end, students will be required to sight sing and transcribe diatonic and simple chromatic melodies featuring any interval, aurally identify all qualities of triad and seventh chords, and perform and transcribe rhythms featuring changing metre and polyrhythms.

Regular individual aural tests (20%); class assignments (30%); end of year written test (20%); end of year viva voce test (20%); attendance (10%).

Students must pass all components to pass the subject.