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School of Music · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
The Aural Skills and Music Theory courses are a series of courses compulsory for all Bachelor of Music students that develop core skills underpinning analytical and practical engagement in a variety of musical idioms, including common practice, jazz, and popular styles. In this course, students apply their analytical approaches to larger harmonic and formal frameworks while investigating more complex rhythmic, pitch, formal, and harmonic structures in music. The theory component is complemented with the sequential and aligned development of relevant aural skills, including audiation (inner hearing) and aural awareness of related melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic structures, through individual and group listening, reading and performing (singing), and dictation activities.
Aural Exam - 1 hour, held during class in week 6
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Theory Project - Arranging Assignment
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Aural Project - Transcription Project
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Theory - Summary Sheet/Video
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Theory Exam - 1 hour, held during week 12
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Aural Demonstration - Harmonic Security & Sight Singing
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 48 hours of contact over 12 weeks of Theory & Aural workshops; and b) 82 hours of independent study, including listening and written tasks, and practical exercises (e.g., sight-singing).
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