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

A textbook for learning to hear, sing, understand, and use the foundations of music as a part of an integrated curriculum for musicians. It provides you with the musical terms, progressions, resolutions, and devices that you can draw upon as a functional and usable musical vocabulary. Simple meter, rests and phrases : the major mode, major triads and tonic function -- Compound meters, ties and dots : the minor mode and inverted triads -- Changing meter : the second division in compound meter : the dominant sound -- Triplets and duplets : seventh chords and predominant function -- Less common meters : C clefs and harmonic progression -- Syncopation : beginning non-modulating chromaticism -- Triplets and duplets : more non-modulating chromaticism -- Triplets, other clefs, beginning modulation -- Reading complex rhythms : more complex modulation -- Twentieth-century rhythmic techniques -- Twentieth-century material based on tonal models -- Twentieth-century material based on non-tonal models