Developing Musicianship Through Aural Skills: A Holistic Approach to Sight Singing and Ear Training

by Kent D. Cleland, Mary Dobrea-Grindahl

Overview

Developing Musicianship Through Aural Skills is a comprehensive textbook for learning to hear, sing, understand, and use the foundations of music as a part of an integrated curriculum for musicians. Organized to take advantage of we naturally hear and understand music, this textbook will provide you with the musical terms, progressions, resolutions, and devices that you will be able to draw upon as a functional and usable musical vocabulary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135173050
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/05/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	592
File size:	64 MB
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About the Author

Kent D. Cleland is Professor of Music Theory at the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music, where he has taught music theory and aural skills since 1999.

Mary Dobrea-Grindahl is Professor of Piano and Coordinator of Secondary Piano at the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music, where she teaches solfège, Eurhythmics, pedagogy, and private piano.

Table of Contents

1. Simple Meters 2. Major and Minor Scales and Scale Degrees 3. Compound Meters 4. Intervals 5. Triads 6. Seventh Chords 7. Harmonic Function, Improvisation, and Progression 8. Irregular Divisions and Syncopation 9. Non-Modulating Chromaticism 10. Modulation 11. Changing Meter, Polyrhythm and Asymmetric Meters 12. Extended Tonal Techniques 13. Atonality