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2026-2027 IHCC Catalog 
  
2026-2027 IHCC Catalog

MUSC 1114 - Aural Skills II



2 Credits
Develops the ability to dictate and articulate musical pitches both heard and read from chromatic tonalities through serialism. This course is the second of a two semester sequence. This is a course of study that gradually increases in complexity in rhythm, tonality and musical texture.

Pre-Requisites MUSC 1113 

Major Content Areas
Popular Song and Art Song: 5.5%

Music Analysis with Sets: 5.5%

Sets and Set Classes: 5.5%

Modes, Scales, and Sets: 5.5%

Variation and Rondo: 5.5%

Tonicizing Scale Degrees Other Than V: 5.5%

Secondary Dominants and Secondary Leading-Tone Chords; New Voice-Leading Chords: 5.5%

Twelve-Tone Rows and the Row Matrix: 5.5%

Ordered Segments and Serialism: 5.5%

Chromaticism: 6.5%

The Neapolitan Sixth and Augmented-Sixths: 5.5%

Modulation to Closely Related Keys: 5.5%

Binary and Ternary Forms: 5.5%

Sonata-Form Movements: 5.5%

20th Century Organize Rhythm, Meter, and Duration: 5.5%

Phrase Rhythm and Motivic Analysis: 5.5%

Modal Mixture and Chromatic Mediants and Submediants: 5.5%

20th Century Chance prodecdures: 5.5%

Learning Outcomes
Interpret aurally the harmoic movement and structure of music and document the notational representation

Engage in the improvisation of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic variation within a formal music structure

Read and articulate through vocalization the pitches and rhythms of a musical manuscript

Apply theoretical elements, construct and practice music notation

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals
06 - Humanities/Fine Arts