Development of aural skills, aural memory and inner hearing to identify, sing/playback and notate simple pitch and rhythmic patterns, melodic contour and chords in isolation and in simple progressions (ACAMUM092)

Aural recognition of one or more elements of music in short excerpts (not all content may be relevant to the selected context):

Rhythm

• beat groupings/subdivision in simple time: , , , and compound time: , ,
• rests: and
• anacrusis, ties, syncopation
• tempo: gradually getting slower/rallentando and ritardando and gradually getting faster/accelerando

Pitch

• scales: add minor pentatonic and natural minor scales up to 2 sharps and 2 flats in treble and bass clefs
• intervals: m2, M2, m3, M3, P4, P5, P8^ve, ascending only
• chords: major and minor triads, major primary triads (I, IV, V) in isolation and simple progressions
• tonality: relevant to scales listed
• sequence

Dynamics and expression

• crescendo, decrescendo
• accents/sforzando

Form and structure

• add intro/outro, bridge, hook, head, 12 bar Blues, theme and variation

Timbre

• discern between acoustic and electronic sounds

Texture

• descant/counter melody

(ACAMUM092)