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.

Developing Musicianship Through Aural Skills is a comprehensive method for learning to hear, sing, understand, and use the foundations of music as a part of an integrated and holistic curriculum for training professional musicians. Each chapter is organized to take advantage of how our minds and instincts naturally hear and understand music and provides a variety of exercises for practicing and integrating the structure into your musical vocabulary. Developing Musicianship Through Aural Skills 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. Ear training exercises on the companion website reinforce both discrete structures (intervals, chords, etc.) as well as all rhythmic and melodic material, and sections are provided to open discussion and reflection on the skills and attitudes professional musicians need to be successful. Features: Easy to Understand Explanations: Topics are logically ordered and explained to help the student make connections to their theory instruction and common usage. A Complete Method: Detailed instructions are given for singing and hearing structures as they most commonly appear in music., providing students with a proven, reliable process for creating and discerning musical structures. Exercises: Ideas for drill, pitch patterns, rhythms, melodies, duets, sing and plays, and examples from the literature help the student to integrate each chapter’s material. Reflections: Discussions of topics that help students to develop as a person, a professional, and an artist, and to integrate aural skills into their musical education. Companion Website: Ear Training tools and video demonstrations. You can find the companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/developingmusicianship.

The Routledge Companion to Aural Skills Pedagogy offers a comprehensive survey of issues, practice, and current developments in the teaching of aural skills. The volume regards aural training as a lifelong skill that is engaged with before, during, and after university or conservatoire studies in music, central to the holistic training of the contemporary musician. With an international array of contributors, the volume captures diverse perspectives on aural-skills pedagogy, and enables conversation between different regions. It addresses key new developments such as the use of technology for aural training and the use of popular music. This book will be an essential resource and reference for all university and conservatoire instructors in aural skills, as well as students preparing for teaching careers in music.

This book is about thinking in music. Music listeners who understand what they hear are thinking in music. Music readers who understand and visualize what they read are thinking in music. This book investigates the various ways musicians acquire those skills through an examination of the latest research in music perception and cognition, music theory, along with centuries of insight from music theorists, composers, and performers. Aural skills are the focus; the author also works with common problems in both skills teaching and skills acquisition.

The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis is a complete package of theory and aural skills resources that covers every topic commonly taught in the undergraduate sequence. The package can be mixed and matched for every classroom, and with Norton’s new Know It? Show It! online pedagogy, students can watch video tutorials as they read the text, access formative online quizzes, and tackle workbook assignments in print or online. In its third edition, The Musician’s Guide retains the same student-friendly prose and emphasis on real music that has made it popular with professors and students alike.

The purpose of this semester course is to guide students in developing musicianship, an amalgam of aural skills and basic theoretical fluency that create a musician capable of sight-singing, transcribing, playing by ear, and improvising. In essence this is a course designed to teach rudimentary guitar, theory, and aural skills with the belief that directly training students in the nuts and bolts of how to fluently auralize and visualize musical patterns will create musicians with higher ability and love for the art. In order to accomplish these goals this course will provide students with straightforward written work, guided classroom work, little demand on technique or the learning of pieces, and loads of playing, singing, listening, and repetition. Guitar instruction consists of technique and fretboard knowledge necessary for performing intervals, scales, chords, arpeggios, and progressions, with the ultimate goal being the practice of melodic fragments with the guitar and voice in order to combine ears, mind, and instrument into a cohesive unit. Nearly all written materials necessary to teach this course are included. These materials are comprised of written listening drills, teaching handouts, guitar charts, melodic patterns, modal song examples, assignment worksheets, and two written exams. Nine pieces from The Real Easy Book: Tunes for Beginning Improvisers by the Stanford Jazz Workshop have been chosen as the main source of song material for their simple, repetitive, and riff -based natures, which lend themselves readily to the goals of this course. Singing and listening drills are based largely on and are used in conjunction with the David Burge Relative Pitch Ear Training Supercourse. Numerous additions have been made to work with and expand upon Burge's materials. Ear training software such as Auralia or EarMaster is required for students to test their ear training progress in mastering basic intervals throughout the semester. Students will also be required to record and upload videos of themselves singin g and performing on the guitar for exams.

(Berklee Guide). These time-tested exercises will help you to play by ear. This book with online audio recordings introduces the core skills of ear training. Step by step, you will learn to use solfege to help you internalize the music you hear and then easily transpose melodies to different keys. Learn to hear a melody and then write it down. Develop your memory for melodies and rhythms. Transcribe live performances and recordings. Listening is the most important skill in music, and this book will help you to listen better. Gilson Schachnik teaches ear training at Berklee College of Music. He is an active keyboardist, composer, and arranger, and has performed with Claudio Roditti, Mick Goodrick, Bill Pierce, and Antonio Sanchez. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

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