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What @quixotic120 said.
You can look at what they do in music school by searching for musicianship/aural skills syllabi.
- https://arts.ufl.edu/site/assets/files/162483/mut_1241l_aural_skills_1_syllabus.pdf
- https://digitalmeasures.utep.edu/ai/sbnordstrom/schteach/Aural Skills I Syllabus Fall 2021-2.pdf
- https://www.uttyler.edu/music/files/syllabi/syllabus-musi1117.pdf
- https://s3.amazonaws.com/mirror.facultyinfo.unt.edu/jjh0137/schteach/2942_2170_1410_008_syllabus.pdf
- https://s3.amazonaws.com/mirror.facultyinfo.unt.edu/jjh0137/schteach/19464_2170_2510_3_syllabus.pdf
- https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/globalPrgms/documents/prague/academics/spring2022/Syl_Prague_MPATC-UE9009P01Pudlak_Spring2022.pdf
- https://uh.edu/~tkoozin/theory1/
These are the usual topics (more or less in the order they are introduced, but about halfway through become simultaneous):
- Interval identification
- Chord quality identification (triads, later seventh chords)
- Scale identification (usually major and natural/harmonic/melodic minor, but some do modes and other types of scales too)
- Solfège
- Sight singing (rhythmic and melodic)
- Conducting
- Melodic dictation
- Rhythmic dictation
- Harmonic dictation
- Polyphonic dictation
Keep in mind that you'll do these with a concurrent course in theoretical topics.
I should also emphasize that having a good command of theory is of tremendous help to developing your ear; a lot of what we do, especially for hard-to-hear things like inner voices in a thick texture, is logical inference based on things we know. There's a video by Sean Wilson that demonstrates this nicely.
Wow thanks a lot I'll check it !
That Sean Wilson video is a perfect demonstration of what I felt about thoroughbass. Seems to tell me these truths underlying the skill of an improviser remain between jazz or gospel and baroque. I think it indicates all musicians should attempt some of that even if they're not a composer or not a performer, because it helps musicianship so much.