Music For Ear Training

by Horvit, Michael; Koozin, Timothy; Nelson, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780534627669
• ISBN10: 0534627668
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback w/CD
• Copyright: 2004-08-06
• Publisher: Schirmer

Summary

This workbook and CD-ROM combination is designed to help students improve their listening/ear-training skills. Students notate the music in theworkbook as they listen to the CD. The dual-format CD-ROM provides an easy-to-use interface for listening with varied General MIDI instrumentalsounds. The repertoire for dictation includes exercises on basic rudiments (intervals, chords, and scales), melodies, four-part harmonic settings,and varied textures from musical literature.

Table of Contents

Intervals, Triads, and Scales

Rhythmic Dictation: Simple Meters

Melodic Dictation: Fifths, Sixths, and Octaves

Rhythmic Dictation: Beat Subdivision by 2

Rhythmic Dictation: Beat Subdivision by 4: Anacrusis

Rhythmic Dictation: Dots and Ties

Melodic Dictation: the Supertonic Triad

Rhythmic Dictation: Compound Meter

Rhythmic Dictation: Triplets

Examples from Literature

Rhythmic Dictation: Syncopation

Melodic Dictation: Scalar Variants, Modal Borrowing, and Decorative Chromaticism

Melodic Dictation: Secondary Dominants 14. Examples from Music Literature

Melodic Dictation: Modulation to Closely Related Keys

Rhythmic Dictation: Quintuple Meter

Examples from Music Literature

Rhythm: Irregular Meters. Pitch: Diatonic Modes. Pitch: Changing Clefs. Part Music

Rhythm: Changing Meters. Pitch: Pandiatonicism

Rhythm: Syncopation Including Irregular and Mixed MetersPitch: Extended and Altered Tertian Harmony

Pitch: Exotic Scales

Rhythm: Complex Divisions of the Beat. Melodic Dictation: Quartal Harmony

Rhythm: Polyrhythms and Polymeters. Music Dictation: Polyharmony and Polytonality

Melodic Dictation: Interval Music

Melodic Dictation: Serial Music

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