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MUSC 126 Ear Training for Production Units: 3.00
Study of the full spectrum of sound, focusing on listening and identifying frequencies, balance, timbres, and textures with increasing precision. Students will also learn active listening approaches situating themselves as intentional listeners with obligations to place and people.
Learning Hours: 120 (48 Laboratory, 24 Online Activity, 48 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite None.
Course Equivalencies: MUSC 126; MUSC 126B
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Situate current audio practices in the historical context of the 20th century, including the adoption of sound analysis tools from military research, and attitudes toward environmental sound recording often governed by a 19th century “collector aesthetic” that in Canada can also be connected to other common extractive settler practices.
- Assess and explain the sonic qualities of everyday sound environments, in terms that can be applied to an understanding of sound mixes in postproduction.
- Identify the frequency of a tone or other sound with as much accuracy as possible.
- Analyze audio recordings in terms of amplitude, frequency and timbre.
- Listen for and address audio problems which require correction.