MUS 489 Graduate Aural Skills Review
A one-semester review of aural skills topics designed for graduate students who have completed an undergraduate aural skills sequence. Topics include sight singing of melodies (diatonic, chromatic, modulating, modal, atonal) and rhythms (including syncopations, mixed meters, asymmetrical meters), aural identification of intervals (melodic and harmonic), triads and 7th chords (in root position and inversion, melodic (including modulations and modes), rhythmic, and harmonic dictation. If placed in both the Graduate Harmony and the Aural Skills Review, it is recommended that the student take the Harmony Review prior to the Aural Skills Review.