Comprehensive Aural Skills

<p><i>Comprehensive Aural Skills</i>, Third Edition is a complete suite of material for both performance and dictation, covering the wide range of sight singing and ear training skills required for… Lue lisää <p><i>Comprehensive Aural Skills</i>, Third Edition is a complete suite of material for both performance and dictation, covering the wide range of sight singing and ear training skills required for undergraduate courses of study. It provides a series of instructional modules on rhythm, melody, and harmony, and blends musical examples from the common-practice repertory with original examples composed to specifically address particular skills and concepts. Each module includes material for classroom performance, self-directed study, and homework assignments. </p><p>Features:</p><ul><li> <b>A complete suite of aural skills material:</b> <i>Comprehensive Aural Skills</i> is a combined sight singing and ear training textbook, audio, and digital resource package. </li><li> <b>Fully modular, customizable organization:</b> Instructors can choose freely from the set of exercises in the book and supplemental material on the companion website to appropriately tailor the curriculum based on their students’ needs. </li><li> <b>Engaging and idiomatic musical examples:</b> Examples are selected and composed specifically for the didactic context of an aural skills classroom. </li><li> <b>Dictation exercises for practice and assignment:</b> Practice exercises include an answer key so students can work independently and receive immediate feedback, while homework assignments are given without a key. </li><li> <b>Audio examples for dictation:</b> The free to access website hosts live recordings of acoustic instruments performed by professional musicians for each dictation exercise and homework assignment. </li><li> <b>Supplemental materials for instructors:</b> A wealth of material for class use and assignment available digitally </li><li> <b>Teacher’s guide:</b> The guide includes answers for every homework assignment, brief commentary on each module’s content, tips for integrating written theory, and strategies on how to effectively teach new concepts and skills. </li></ul><p>This updated Third Edition includes:</p><ul><li>A new module on jazz harmony</li><li>Updates to the rhythm portion of the book, with particular focus on more gradual scaffolding of skills. </li><li>More examples from the literature</li><li>Difficulty levels of examples now indicated throughout the book, improving ease of use</li><li>New recordings available on the website, now including a wider array of instrumentation</li><li>Revised, more modular homework assignments</li><li>Fully updated and free to access Instructor and Student Resources website</li></ul>