Highlights
Manual for Ear Training and Sight Singing approaches aural skills training with the same attention to detail that is found in music theory texts. Brief, focused chapters integrate the basic principles of aural skills and theory, supporting each topic with focused ear-training and sight-singing exercises.
Organized according to how students learn.
Informed by over two decades of research on perception and cognition, Manual for Ear Training and Sight Singing is organized according to how students best acquire aural skills—by scale degree, chord function, metric level, and rhythmic proportion. Incorporating a progressive introduction of metric and rhythmic skills along with melodic and harmonic functions, the text accessibly teaches students how to hear and understand essential musical concepts.
Integrated package features a systematic pedagogical approach.
Coordinating melodic and harmonic concepts with rhythmic training, the Manual teaches students the essential aural skills that musician’s use every day, while the companion Anthology provides the practical application. Each concept in the Manual is briefly but thoroughly explained, then reinforced by ear training, dictation, and sight-singing exercises. An accompanying CD-ROM provides a wealth of real-music dictation exercises and transcriptions for drill and practice.
Examples drawn from real music literature.
Relying exclusively on real music literature, the examples used in the Anthology introduce students to a diversity of musical styles and genres they will face day-to-day as professional musicians. About half of the transcription and dictation exercises in the Manual are also from real music literature. Drawn primarily from the common practice period but including both early and contemporary repertoires as well as traditional and popular idioms, the texts offer a judicious balance of music.
Unrivaled classroom flexibility.
Designed to facilitate a range of teaching styles and the variety of ways that individual students learn concepts, Manual for Ear Training and Sight Singing introduces several pitch and rhythm systems for aural skills training, thereby allowing instructors to select the method that works best in their classroom. The text also uses an innovative protonotation system for developing dictation skills. After the introduction of these methods, the text then emphasizes scale-degree numbers and “movable do” (including do-based minor) as the most effective systems for aural-skills training. Also, the text’s short, focused chapters are written to function as modules that teach individual concepts thoroughly and can easily be reordered to suit the needs of a particular curriculum or individual student.
Recordings CD-ROM
Bringing together a combination of real music literature and materials composed specifically for this package, this rich multimedia resource provides over 600 dictation, transcription, and other listening exercises in a variety of timbres and textures, all recorded on real instruments specifically for use with the text and packaged with every new copy.
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