Solfege, Ear Training, Rhythm, Dictation, and Music Theory
Solfege, Ear Training, Rhythm, Dictation, and Music Theory

Author: Marta Árkossy Ghezzo

Publisher: University Alabama Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13:

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This revised and expanded third edition includes new musical examples and dictations covering the entire continuum of musical development from classical to modern. It also includes definitive audio performances on CD of each of the 51 musical dictations, keyed by track number to the musical notation in the text.

Singing and Dictation for Today's Musician
Singing and Dictation for Today's Musician

Author: Daniel McCarthy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-29

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1000050610

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Singing and Dictation for Today's Musician expands the Today's Musician family of textbooks to encompass the essential elements of musicianship and aural skills training. Featuring chapters that correspond to the organization of Theory for Today's Musician, this new textbook complements the theory text to offer a complete curriculum package, allowing students and instructors to reinforce written theory skills with relevant musicianship exercises. Combining sight singing and dictation in a single volume, this new textbook underscores the value of combining the human senses in understanding the intellectual and analytic concepts of music theory. Features of this text include: Flexibility for the instructor in using moveable or fixed "Do," scale degree numbers, and neutral syllables for singing Both singing and dictation exercises included in each unit, allowing the two skills to be fully integrated Companion website with audio recordings and instructor keys for the exercises, at www.routledge.com/cw/mccarthy Units match the pacing and order of topics in Theory for Today’s Musician, allowing the texts to be easily used in sync. Beginning with fundamentals and continuing up through twentieth-century materials, Singing and Dictation for Today’s Musician allows instructors to closely align their teaching of musicianship and aural skills with the written theory curriculum, enhancing student understanding of core music principles.

Ear Training for Twentieth-century Music
Ear Training for Twentieth-century Music

Author: Michael L. Friedmann

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780300045376

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Michael Friedmann's Ear Training for Twentieth-Century Music is a skills text; using non-tonal materials, students are asked to improvise at the keyboard, sing at sight, take dictation, memorize melodies by rote, and identify selected set classes by eye and ear.

Aural Skills Acquisition
Aural Skills Acquisition

Author: Gary Steven Karpinski

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780195117851

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This book is about thinking in music. Music listeners who understand what they hear are thinking in music. Music readers who understand and visualize what they read are thinking in music. This book investigates the various ways musicians acquire those skills through an examination of the latest research in music perception and cognition, music theory, along with centuries of insight from music theorists, composers, and performers. Aural skills are the focus; the author also works with common problems in both skills teaching and skills acquisition.

The "Real Easy" Ear Training Book
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Author: Roberta Radley

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2011-01-12

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1457101424

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All great musicians have one thing in common---to a great extent they know what the harmony of a song is as they hear it. Do you? If not, here is a practical guide to get you up to speed. Written by Berklee professor Roberta Radley, it uses contemporary music to help you see how ear training is invaluable for your own musical needs.

How to Grow as a Musician
How to Grow as a Musician

Author: Sheila E. Anderson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2005-07-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1621531090

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Professional musicians tell how they developed as artists, how they approach performance, and how they handle the business side of the business—offering solace and heartfelt inspiration along the way. How to Grow as a Musician is packed with candid advice on everything from overcoming failure to the art of writing a song to doing that all—important "ego check." It also covers such vital practical areas as the role of contracts, self—promotion, getting and keeping gigs, and managing money. A special self—evaluation lets readers assess whether they have what they need to succeed in the music business.

Basic Contrapuntal Techniques
Basic Contrapuntal Techniques

Author: H. Owen Reed

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780757916663

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A revision of the classic 1964 edition exploring counterpoint techniques beyond the stylistic base of the baroque tradition. This practical 194-page book contains a glossary of terms, a bibliography for further study, and a subject index. There is also an index of musical examples, and the included CDs contain recordings of musical examples from the text. Includes perforated exercise pages for students.