As singing and aural skills are fundamental for all musicians, this course aims to reinforce the basic foundation in students' musicianship, including their ability to sight-sing, dictate melodic examples from tonal literature and perform two-part rhythmic exercises. Keyboard exercises will also be added to improve students' perception of functional harmonies. Learning activities will include weekly prepared-performance on short excerpts from textbooks or literature, dictation assignments, sight-singing and rhythm, improvisation on harmonic progressions and keyboard drills.