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Music isn’t made for eyes, it’s made for ears— towards CRCO and ARCO Aural

Thursday 4th November 2021 (18:00) – Thursday 2nd December 2021 (19:00)
Online

RCO Accredited Teacher Robin Harrison, a contributor to The Routledge Companion to Aural Skills Pedagogy, leads a course of five, weekly one-hour sessions ideal for those preparing for or considering CRCO and ARCO, or ABRSM grades 7–8. Dates: Thursdays 18:00–19:00 hrs, 4, 11, 18, 25 November and 2 December.

This course is inspired by, but not specifically limited to the teachings of Kodály and will make the most of the advantages of online teaching, allowing everybody to practise whilst muted, ask questions as needed, and avoid falling into the trap of waiting for someone else to ‘give the lead’. No one will be asked to sing aloud to the group! Just eight places are available and you must book for the series of five classes.

Join this course if you can sight-sing short simple melodies; see a rhythm and know exactly how it will sound; hold your part in a simple round.  But where do you go next?

Content includes:

• Separating lower pitches from upper pitches.
• Developing an aural understanding of chord inversions.
• Recognising cadences.
• Singing lower parts or bass lines.
• Further developing your ability to sing and hear in more than two parts.
• Developing vocal sequences.
• Adding melodic embellishments such as appoggiaturas, acciaccaturas, mordents etc.
• Developing an aural understanding of modulation.

By the end of the course you will:

• Have strategies that you can employ yourself to further develop.
• Be better able to identify differences between printed scores and notation.
• Be more able to separate notes in a chord or piece.
• Be more able to follow individual lines within a homophonic or contrapuntal texture.
• Be better at identifying chord inversions, simple progressions and cadences.
• Be more able to identify melodic embellishments and compositional devices.
• Have strategies to help identify modulations.

Each session will be recorded and available to those attending to rehearse with between classes and for a short time after the end of the course.

We also offer a preparatory course ideal for those not yet ready for CRCO aural and/or working for ABRSM grades 1–6. Click here for details.

Click here to read about applying for an RCO bursary to support the course fees.

 

Fee: RCO Members £200 (five classes @ £40 each); Non-members £275 (five classes @ £55 each)