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Developing Aural Skills

Fundamentals of Music

Beginning Aural Skills

Aural Proficiency

ISBN: 978-0-9796911-6-4
BEGINNING AURAL SKILLS

Beginning Aural Skills is a one-volume textbook for students who need an introduction to aural skills.  It introduces ear-training and solfege-based sightsinging.


Features Include:
  • 3 units, each with sightsinging and ear-training (rhythm and melody)
  • Sightsinging:

·        Introduction to Solfege
·        Multi-Key Reading
·        Sightsinging Exercises
·        Sightsinging Melodies

  • Rhythm:

·        Rhythm reading exercises
·        Rhythmic duets
·        Rhythmic pre-dictation and Rhythmic dictation
·        Rhythm error detection exercises

  • Melody:

·        Melodic fragments for preliminary dictation
·        Melodic dictation
·        Melodic error detection exercises
·        Melodic interval identification

  • 2 CDs provide audio material for the ear-training homework assignments, as well as beginning sightsinging exercises, performed by both female and male student singers
  • Aural Skills exercises, beginning with the simplest concepts
  • Cost to student – $39.95 (suggested retail price) plus shipping and sales tax, if applicable.

  Instructor’s Manual 
  • Student text material
  • Answer keys for all homework assignments
  • Pedagogical suggestions for teaching aural skills
  • More than enough sightreading and dictation material for the classroom
  • Free to Instructor with adoption

 ISBN (Instructor's Manual):  978-0-9796911-7-1



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