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Aural Training

The development of musical listening skills including interval recognition and melodic dictation

Category
fundamental
Pronunciation
OR-ul
Origin

English

Length
144 words · 1 min read

About Aural Training

Aural training teaches musicians to identify what they hear — intervals, chords, rhythms, and keys — without seeing the score. Exercises include interval recognition (identifying the distance between two notes by ear), chord identification (major, minor, diminished, augmented), rhythmic dictation (writing down a rhythm after hearing it), and melodic dictation (notating a melody from memory).
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