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May 22, 2025
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2025-2026 College Catalog
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MUS 127 - Aural Perception I 2 Contact Hours, 1 Credits
0 lecture periods 2 lab periods
Development of aural skills, using the foundation of American and world folk music. Includes sight singing, interval/chord recognition, rhythmic dictation/counting of rhythms, and identification of historical, cultural, and global influences on the scales, rhythms, and styles of the folk music genre.
Corequisite(s): MUS 125
Gen-Ed: Meets AGEC - FA; Meets - CTE - A&H.
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Course Learning Outcomes
- Perform simple vocal and instrumental musical melodies and rhythms.
- Distinguish rhythmic patterns in dictation.
- Aurally identify major and three (3) forms of minor scales, intervals, triads and seventh chords.
- Improvise and transcribe melodies and rhythms according to scales and various folk and world musical styles.
- Compare and contrast the many global, cultural, and historical expressions of melody, harmony, and rhythms.
Outline:
- Rhythmic Dictation
- Simple rhythms with no subdivisions
- Rhythms containing subdivisions in various meter signatures
- Rhythms derived from world folk cultures
- Intervallic Recognition – Pitch Distances within the Octave
- Sight Singing
- Perform melodies containing step-wise intervals and melodies that outline chords.
- Perform world folk melodies, identifying cultural and historical style features and their influence.
- Dictation
- Transcribe melodies and rhythms which are common to various world cultures.
- Improvise and Compose
- Create melodies based on major, minor, blues, and pentatonic scales
- Compose and perform rhythms which are stylistically common to various world cultures.
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