Course: MUS 155 Aural Skills I · Kenosis College
Instructor: Professor Hemsworth
Unit: Learning Unit 5 of 15 (Week 5) · two sessions per week
Objectives: SLO 1 · SLO 2 · SLO 3

Two pieces: (A) the Unit 5 Overview page and (B) the Announcement. All timing uses the course's tokens.

(A) Week 5 Overview — Start Here

Welcome to Unit 5: Minor, Three Ways

Last week your do got a scale. This week it gets a shadow: the same do with three notes lowered. You'll flip familiar tunes from major to minor without moving home, sing minor's three forms, and take your first minor dictation — including the raised note whose accidental you write. This morning, theory spells the forms; an hour later your ear tells them apart.

Work the table top to bottom.

The late-work policy is in the syllabus.

Why this makes you a better musician

You'll hear whether a song is major or minor before anyone tells you — and when the note under do lifts and pulls, you'll know which minor you're inside. That's the difference between guessing at the dark keys and knowing them.

How to succeed: flip something daily. Two minutes of do–mi–do against do–me–do beats an hour of staring at spellings.

(B) Announcement — Week 5

Subject: Same home, darker room — minor week is here

Hi everyone,

Every ballad you love does one specific thing: it keeps do where it is and lowers three notes. That's minor — and your ear has been fluent in it for years without the names.

Do Tutorial 5 before session 1 — its conversions are the spelling the studio sings. In session 1 we flip Twinkle into the shadows on one do; in session 2 we name the three forms by ear, take our first minor dictation, and finish with Skills Check 5. Recordings and practice close at the end of the week. Next week: Intervals outward I.

Bring your voice. The dark keys are friendlier than they sound.

See you in the studio,
Professor Hemsworth

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