Aural & Keyboard Skills 2 is the second course in a three-semester integrated musicianship sequence for music majors. The course expands students' audiation, sight singing, rhythmic fluency, harmonic perception, and functional keyboard skills within diatonic tonal contexts. Emphasis is placed on compound intervals, seventh chords, cadential function, melodic elaboration of harmonic progressions, and functional prolongation using chord inversions. Students engage in coordinated singing, dictation, analysis, and keyboard realization activities designed to strengthen the relationship between hearing, notation, and physical performance. The course prioritizes functional understanding and musical fluency rather than instrumental virtuosity.
Prerequisite(s): MUSIC 1610 Music Theory I and MUSIC 1620 Aural and Keyboard Skills 1.
Corequisite(s): MUSIC 1630 Music Theory II.
MUSIC 1610 Music Theory I (3 hours)
A review of the fundamentals of music (scales, key signatures, intervals) and the presentation of triads and their harmonic and melodic implications. Students at the appropriate skill level may attempt to test out of this course. Please see the instructor or Department Chair for more information.
Corequisite(s): MUSIC 1620 Aural and Keyboard Skills 1.
MUSIC 1620 Aural and Keyboard Skills 1 (1 hour)
This course introduces first-year music majors and minors to foundational musicianship skills through the coordinated study of aural skills, sight singing, rhythmic literacy, and functional keyboard use. The course emphasizes the development of audiation, pattern recognition, solfège-based pitch relationships, rhythmic organization, and basic harmonic understanding through integrated vocal, aural, visual, and keyboard-based activities. This course serves as the first level in a three-course sequence designed to progressively increase in musical complexity and technical difficulty. No P/F.
Corequisite: MUSIC 1610 Music Theory I.
MUSIC 1630 Music Theory II (3 hours)
A continuation of MUSIC 1610 including inversions of triads, non-harmonic tones, dominant seventh chords, and their resolutions. Emphasis is on four-part writing and analysis of music from the Common Practice Period.
Prerequisite(s): MUSIC 1610 Music Theory I or permission of the instructor.