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ReviewsThe integration of written and aural skills texts is its greatest strength. To my knowledge, this is the only text that integrates the two areas to that extent., It knits aural skills more closely to a complete musical fabric instead of it being a purely one-line melodic topic., There is simply no other textbook on the market that compares with respect to the emphasis on real music, the scope, breadth, clarity, and integration with theory and keyboard skills.
Table Of ContentPart I Elements of Music1. Pitch and Pitch Class2. Simple Meters3. Pitch Collections, Scales, and Major Keys4. Compound Meters5. Minor Keys and the Diatonic Modes6. Intervals7. Triads8. Seventh Chords9. Connecting Intervals in Note-to-Note Counterpoint10. Melodic and Rhythmic Embellishment in Two-Voice CompositionPart II Diatonic Harmony and Tonicization11. Soprano and Bass Lines in Eighteenth-Century Style12. The Basic Phrase in SATB Style13. Dominant Sevenths, the Predominant Area, and Choral Harmonization14. Expanding the Basic Phrase15. New Cadence Types and Diatonic Root Progressions16. Embellishing Tones17. The vii°6, vii°7, viø7, and Other Voice-Leading Chords18. Phrase Structure and Motivic Analysis19. Diatonic Sequences20. Secondary Dominants and Leading-Tone Chords to V21. Tonicizing Scale Degrees Other Than VPart III Chromatic Harmony and Form22. Modulation to Closely Related Keys23. Binary and Ternary Forms24. Invention, Fugue, and Other Contrapuntal Genres25. Variation26. Modal Mixture27. The Neapolitan Sixth and Augmented-Sixth Chords28. Vocal Forms29. Popular Music30. Chromatic Harmony and Voice-Leading31. Chromatic Modulation32. Sonata, Sonatina, and Concerto33. Rondo, Sonata-Rondo, and Large TernaryPart IV The Twentieth Century and Beyond34. Modes, Scales, and Sets35. Music Analysis with Sets36. Sets and Set Classes37. Ordered Segments, Serialism, and Twelve-Tone Composition38. New Ways to Organize Rhythm, Meter, and Duration39. New Ways to Articulate Musical Form40. Recent Trends
SynopsisReorganized for ease of use, The Musician's Guide to Aural Skills features chapters that correspond with The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis ; within each chapter, activities are carefully sequenced for an ideal pedagogical progression. Throughout, the text emphasizes connections to written theory, so that both sides of the theory curriculum are mutually reinforcing., Reorganized for ease of use, The Musician's Guide to Aural Skills features chapters that correspond with The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis; within each chapter, activities are carefully sequenced for an ideal pedagogical progression. Throughout, the text emphasizes connections to written theory, so that both sides of the theory curriculum are mutually reinforcing.