MCCCD Official Course Competencies:

MTC103  1995 Fall - 9999

Introduction to Aural Perception

1.

Identify all pitches on the staff. (I)

2.

Explain the significance of the top and bottom number of a meter signature. (II)

3.

Identify, by sight and sound, simple and compound metered music. (II)

4.

Notate commonly used rhythms in simple and compound meters. (II)

5.

Detect, through listening, rhythmic errors in a musical fragment. (II)

6.

Perform rhythmic exercises in simple and compound meters. (II)

7.

Aurally compare the pitches between a major and a minor scale. (III)

8.

Aurally identify and notate all simple intervals. (III)

9.

List structural characteristics of a melody. (IV)

10.

Notate, based on listening, melodic fragments in major and minor keys. (IV)

11.

Sight sing simple melodies. (IV)

12.

Define the four triad types. (V)

13.

Identify aurally and notate root position triads. (V)

MCCCD Official Course Outline:

MTC103  1995 Fall - 9999

Introduction to Aural Perception

I. Notation

A. Staff

B. Clefs

C. Pitch notation

II. Rhythm

A. Meter signatures

1. Simple meters

2. Compound meters

B. Note values

1. Common rhythms used in simple/compound meters

2. Detection of rhythmic errors

C. Exercises: performing common rhythms in simple/compound meters

III. Intervals

A. Pitch difference between major and minor scales

B. All other intervals within the octave

IV. Melody

A. Structural characteristics

1. Starting and ending pitches

2. Melodic curve

3. Highest and lowest pitches

4. Stepwise or leaps

B. Fragments in major keys using simple/compound meters

C. Fragments in minor keys using simple/compound meters

D. Error detection

E. Sightsinging simple melodies

1. Stepwise motion

2. Leaps within the tonic triad

V. Triads

A. Intervallic construction of triads in root position

1. Major

2. Minor

3. Diminished

4. Augmented

B. Aural identification of all triads