Advanced Aural Skills (18+)

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Course Dates & Times
Monday 15 – Friday 19 July 2024
10am–4pm

About ’Advanced Aural Skills’
This five-day music course will help develop your existing aural skills to the level required for ABRSM and Trinity Grade 8 and above.

Who is the course for?
Singers, musicians and/or composers wanting to refine aural skills at a post-grade 5 level. There is no upper age limit on this course. We encourage and welcome participants from all ages 18 and over.

What can I expect?
You will be taught listening and memorising skills up to the level required for ABRSM and Trinity Grade 8 and above for the following topics:

Melody: 

• copying longer melodic phrases vocally and instrumentally
• singing and playing upper/lower melodies of a two-part phrase
• interval recognition, including compound intervals
• advanced sight-singing

Harmony:

• revision of cadences
• detailed chord-naming
• tonality, including chromaticism, whole-tone, serialism
• modulation (including practical work)

Rhythm:

• recognising time-signatures, musical pulse
• advanced rhythm and sight clapping

In addition to the topics listed above, the course will also cover:

• practical working knowledge of advanced theory
• mistake spotting: pitch, rhythm, dynamics, articulation, speed
• style and historical period recognition
• recognising character and form of music (dance, chorale, elegy, fugue etc.)
• understanding of structure within form

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