Keyboard & Aural Skills

This hands-on laboratory course offers highly practical instruction on rudiments of keyboard technique along with aural skills. Emphasis is placed on developing mastery in proper fingering of scales, navigating various keys and modes, and singing or speaking along using solfege syllables and other musical terminology. Suitable for students with or without prior keyboard skills.

Course Objectives:

The successful student in this course will master functional keyboard skills and terminology for beginning music theory. Upon completion, the student will be better prepared to enter, understand, and succeed in any beginning music theory course sequences. Suggested as a preparatory or corollary to any music theory instruction.

Texts or Required Materials:

• All required written material will be available online without charge.
• Each student will need to have regular access to a piano or keyboard for both practice and recorded performance throughout the semester.