Aural Skills - Unit 1: Dominant, Subdominant, and Skips to 4 and 6

Unit 1Unit 2Unit 3

Last Day to Pass Objectives: March 4

Read all as “I can . . .”

Singing Skills

1. Perform a prepared melody highlighting the dominant triad while conducting or playing an accompaniment. (2x)
2. Perform a prepared melody highlighting leaps to 4 and 6 while conducting or playing an accompaniment.(2x)
3. Perform a prepared melody highlighting the subdominant triad while conducting or playing an accompaniment. (2x)
4. Perform a melody at-sight highlighting the dominant triad while conducting.
5. Perform a melody at-sight highlighting leaps to 4 and 6 while conducting.
6. Perform a melody at-sight highlighting the subdominant triad while conducting.

Dictation Skills

1. Regularly complete practice dictation.
2. Dictate a melody highlighting the dominant triad, given three listening opportunities. (2x)
3. Dictate a melody highlighting leaps to 4 and 6, given three listening opportunities. (2x)
4. Dictate a melody highlighting the subdominant triad, given three listening opportunities. (2x)
5. Transcribe a melody for solo instrument or voice.

Keyboard Skills

1. Play I–V(7)–I progressions in keyboard style in any major or minor key given a scale degree pattern (e.g., 3–2–1).
2. Play I–V(7)–I progressions, using appropriate inversions of the tonic and dominant triads and given a bass line.

---