Singing and Dictation for Today's Musician

Singing and Dictation for Today's Musician
Author: Daniel McCarthy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2020-04-29
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1000050610

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.

Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music

Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music
Author: Robert Gauldin
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 895
Release: 2004
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780393976663

Conceptually sophisticated and exceptionally musical, Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music provides a thorough treatment of harmony and voice-leading principles in tonal music.

Music in Theory and Practice

Music in Theory and Practice
Author: Bruce Benward
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre:
ISBN: 9780697353757

Volume II of "Music in Theory and Practice" is an introduction to musical styles from the Renaissance to the present. It includes more complex chords, an emphasis on larger forms, and strategies for composition analysis. The goal of the text is to instruct readers on the practical application of knowledge. The analytical techniques presented are carefully designed to be clear, uncomplicated, and readily applicable to any repertoire.

Aural Skills Acquisition

Aural Skills Acquisition
Author: Gary Steven Karpinski
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2000
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780195117851

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.

Developing Musicianship Through Aural Skills

Developing Musicianship Through Aural Skills
Author: Kent D. Cleland
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 687
Release: 2014-12-17
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135008523

Developing Musicianship through Aural Skills, Second Edition, is a comprehensive method for learning to hear, sing, understand, and use the foundations of music as part of an integrated curriculum, incorporating both sight singing and ear training in one volume. Under the umbrella of musicianship, this textbook guides students to "hear what they see, and see what they hear," with a trained, discerning ear on both a musical and an aesthetic level. Key features of this new edition include: Revised organization, with exercises gradually progressing from the simple to more difficult, taking beginner students’ varied skill sets into account. An enhanced companion website, with interactive training modules for students to practice core skills, and additional exercises, dictation lesson plans and worksheets for instructors Enhanced coverage and a specific methodology for covering post-tonal material Greater emphasis on developing improvisation skills and realizing lead sheets The text reinforces both musicianship and theory in a systematic method, and its holistic approach provides students the skills necessary to incorporate professionalism, creativity, confidence, and performance preparation in their music education. The second edition of Developing Musicianship through Aural Skills provides a strong foundation for undergraduate music students and answers the need for combining skills in a more holistic, integrated music theory core.

Hearing Harmony

Hearing Harmony
Author: Christopher Doll
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2017-05-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0472053523

An original, listener-based approach to harmony for popular music from the rock era of the 1950s to the present

The Jazz Theory Book

The Jazz Theory Book
Author: Mark Levine
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 725
Release: 2011-01-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1457101459

The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published! Over 500 pages of comprehensive, but easy to understand text covering every aspect of how jazz is constructed---chord construction, II-V-I progressions, scale theory, chord/scale relationships, the blues, reharmonization, and much more. A required text in universities world-wide, translated into five languages, endorsed by Jamey Aebersold, James Moody, Dave Liebman, etc.

Harmonic Materials in Tonal Music

Harmonic Materials in Tonal Music
Author: Greg A. Steinke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2002
Genre: Harmony
ISBN:

This self-paced, auto-instructional book in two volumes has become a “classic” in the field of music. A wealth of clearly laid-out lessons and exercises provide learners with continual feedback and reinforcement as they work through the activities and assignments at their own pace.Chapter topics include some definitions, the structure of tonality, triads in root position: doubling and spacing, triads in root position: voice leading, triads in first and second inversion, introduction to seventh chords and the dominant seventh, phrase structure and cadences, nonharmonic tones, harmonic progression, and the technique of harmonization.For music studio teachers and students, and use in preparatory music programs.