“A perfect musician should be able to picture a piece, at first hearing…as though the score were visible.”
“You must get to the point that you can hear music from the page.”
These two thought-provoking quotes from Robert Schumann’s Advice For Young Musicians sum up the purpose of this class.
Aural skills are essential to professional-level musicianship. The two interdependent topics in this class are ear training and sight singing.
Ear training cultivates the ability to accurately write down music that you hear. In this class, we will cover dictation in the following subjects:
Sight singing cultivates score-reading ability that enables you to hear music “in your mind’s ear,” and perform it using moveable-do solfege and conducting.