Music for Ear Training (with CD-ROM)

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

• ISBN13: 9780495565710
• ISBN10: 0495565717
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Spiral Bound
• Copyright: 2008-01-18
• Publisher: Schirmer

Summary

When it comes to improving ear training and listening skills, choose the standard in ear training instruction: Horvit/Koozin/Nelson MUSIC FOR EAR TRAINING: CD-ROM AND WORKBOOK, Third Edition. Taking a hybrid approach, the workbook and CD deliver a wealth of practical material designed to help you quickly improve your listening and ear training skills. The dual-format CD-ROM provides an easy-to-use interface for listening with varied general MIDI instrumental sounds. The dictation repertoire includes 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

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 Meters

Pitch: 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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