MUS 205 - Musicianship and Aural Skills

This course guides music students in the development of their musicianship and aural skills in tandem with topics and concepts covered in MUS 210 (Intermediate Music Theory - Fundamental Harmony) into a more embodied , integrated, and time-based understanding of textbook concepts. Class activities will include melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic dictations; group reading of assigned musical excerpts; conducting; rhythmic and harmonic transcriptions; discussions of challenges and strategies in music making; and student presentations of assignments - with the aim of integrating the visual, sonic, kinesthetic, and holistic learning of music into a somatic understanding. This course will culminate in long form aural transcriptions, notational engraving, translations between time-based modalities in digital audio production software to engraved notational literacy, and ultimately composing an original notated arrangement of student-selected songs for duo, trio, and small ensemble performance.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Prerequisite(s): MUS 110 or equivalent or MUS 210
Instructional Method: Conference-laboratory
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).