| Contents |
Preface -- Basic rhythms in simple meters: skips to [1 with a circumflex above], [3 with a circumflex above], and [5 with a circumflex above] in C major -- The fifteen major keys -- Ties and the dotted beat -- Skips to [7 with a circumflex above] and [2 with a circumflex above] as prefix neighbors -- Compound meters -- Diatonic minor -- Lower chromatic neighbors -- Chromatic [6 with a circumflex above] and [7 with a circumflex above] in the minor mode -- Triplets, duplets -- Quadruple division of the beat in simple meters -- Conducting pulse levels other than the notated beat -- The dominant triad -- The C clefs: alto and tenor clefs -- Skips to [4 with a circumflex sign above] and [6 with a circumflex sign above] as prefix neighbors -- Sextuple division of the beat in compound meters -- Repeat signs -- The subdominant triad -- Syncopation -- The dominant seventh chord -- Bass lines -- Introduction to voice leading -- The leading-tone triad -- The supertonic triad -- The mediant triad -- Other seventh chords -- Transposition -- The modes -- Advanced triplets -- Chromatic passing tones -- Skips to chromatic pitches as prefix neighbors -- Chords applied to the dominant -- Chords applied to the subdominant -- Chords applied to the supertonic -- Chords applied to the submediant -- Chords applied to the mediant -- The Neapolitan sixth chord -- The augmented sixth chords -- Other chords -- Melodic sequences -- Other clefs -- Hemiola -- Stepwise chromatic alterations -- Reading in keys other than the notated key signature -- Closely related modulation from the major mode -- Closely related modulation from the minor mode -- Distant modulations -- Successive modulations -- Fragments of tonality -- Advanced meter -- More advanced rhythms -- Some common non-diatonic pitch collections -- Hypermeter -- Additional excerpts for sight singing. |
| Abstract |
"...Excerpts offer a wide variety of music to support a multi-year curriculum in aural skills training...main focus is on tonal music, but there is also a group of modal selections and several dozen others that stretch the limits of tonality and explore some non-diatonic pitch collections...excerpts come from Western European art music of the common practice period, Medieval, Renaissance, twentieth-century and popular repertoires and over a hundred excerpts come from folk sources..."--preface. |
| General note | Coordinates with: Manual for ear training and sight singing. |
| General note | Includes indexes (pages 441-463). |
| Language | Some selections with texts in various languages. |
| LCCN | 2010560010 |
| ISBN | 0393973824 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780393973822 (paperback) |
