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