Singing and dictation for today's musician. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Daniel McCarthy, Ralph Turek.
• Authors: McCarthy, Daniel William, 1955-; Turek, Ralph
• Contents: PART ONE FUNDAMENTALS Introduction Assorted Preliminaries Singing: A Voice Leading/Schenkerian Approach Notations and Pitch Matters: Clefs The Solfege Syllable System Solmization Chromatic Inflections Raising Pitch Lowering Pitch The Fixed "Do" System versus Moveable "Do" System and Other Methods UNIT 1 The Church Modes Part I: Singing Singing Exercise #1 Singing Exercise #2 Simple and Compound Meter Singing Exercise #3 Part II: Dictation Mode Identification and Spelling In-Class Dictation 1-1 Assignment Dictation 1-2 UNIT 2 Intervals of the Major and Minor Scale Part I: Singing I. Intervals of the Major and Minor Scale Singing Exercise #1: Ascending Intervals of the Major Scale Singing Exercise #2: Descending Intervals of the Major Scale Singing Exercise #3: Ascending Intervals of the Natural Minor Scale Singing Exercise #4: Descending Intervals of the Natural Minor Scale The Major/Minor 2nd in Major and Minor Keys Singing Exercise Set #1: The Major/Minor 2nd in Major Keys In-Class and Assignment Singing Exercise Set #2: The Major/Minor 2nd in Minor Keys Melodies 2-1 Rhythm Reading 2-2: Simple Meter, Divisions of the Beat In-Class Interval Singing: 2-3 (Quizzing) Part II: Dictation In-Class Identification 2-1 (Dictation): Interval Identification In-Class Dictation 2-2: Melody Identification (An Introduction to Melodic Dictation) Assignment Dictation 2-3: Rhythm Assignment Dictation 2-4: Melody (Online Listening) PART TWO DIATONIC HARMONY UNIT 3 Basic Harmonic Structures Part I: Singing Singing Exercise 3-1 Singing Exercise 3-1a Singing Exercise 3-2 Melodies 3-1 Singing Exercise 3-3 Melodies 3-2 In-Class Interval Singing 3-3 (Quizzing) Rhythm 3-1: Error Detection Part II: Dictation Interval Identification 3-1 (may be repeated) In-Class Melodic Dictation 3-2: Introduction to Melodic Dictation Assignment Dictation 3-3Assignment Dictation 3-4 Melodic Dictation UNIT 4 Intervals/Melodic Sequence Part I: Singing Singing Exercise 4-1 In-Class Rhythm Exercise and Error Detection 4-2 (may be repeated) Major Key Number Patterns: Introduction to the "Tritone" (Augmented 4th) Melodies 4-1 Part II: Dictation Interval Identification 4-1: Mixed Intervals In-Class Melodic Error Detection 4-2 Assignment Dictation 4-3 Assignment Dictation 4-4 Major Scale Number Pattern (Scale Degree) Identification Assignment Dictation 4-5 UNIT 5 Harmonies of the Major and Minor Scale Part I: Singing Singing Exercise 5-1: Triad Quality Singing Exercise Singing Exercise 5-2: Scale Degree Number Patterns Major Key Scale Degrees Singing Exercise 5-3: Minor Scale Degree Number Patterns Melodic Minor Key Scale Degrees Harmonic Key Scale Degrees Singing Exercise 5-4: Primary Triad Exercise Melodies 5-1: Triad Building: 3rds and 5ths Singing Exercise 5-5: Seventh Chord Quality Melodies 5-2: The Dominant 7th Part II: Dictation In-Class Dictation 5-1: Triad Quality Identification In-Class Dictation 5-2: 7th Chord Quality Identification Assignment Dictation 5-3: Triad Quality Identification Assignment Dictation 5-4: 7th Chord Quality Identification Assignment Dictation 5-5: Rhythm: Dots, Ties, Divisions, Subdivisions, and Rests Assignment Dictation 5-4: Melodic Error Detection UNIT 6 Cadences Part I: Singing Preliminary Exercises Singing Exercise 6-1: Primary Triads Singing Exercise 6-1a: Triad Quality Singing Exercise 6-1b: Seventh Chord Quality Singing Exercise 6-2a: Major Scale Number Patterns Singing Exercise 6-2b: Melodic Minor Key Scale Degrees Melodies 6-1: Compound Meter, Cadences Melodies 6-2 Part II: Dictation In-Class Dictation 6-1: Triad and Seventh-Chord Quality In-Class Melodic Dictation 6-2: Compound Meter, Primary Triads, Cadences In-Class Dictation 6-3: Introduction to Harmonic Dictation: Cadences in Root Position In-Class Dictation 6-4 Assignment Dictation 6-5: Harmonic Dictation: Cadences in Root Position PART THREE MELODIC PRINCIPLES UNIT 7 Melodic Pitch and Rhythm Part I: Singing Motive and Sequence Repetition and Sequence Singing Exercise 7-1: Motive and Sequence Singing Singing Exercise 7-2: Rhythmic Reading: Triplets, Subdivisions, Dots, Ties, and Rests Melodies 7-1: Motive and Sequence: Intervals: 2nds, 3rds, 4ths, and 5ths Part II: Dictation In-Class Dictation 7-1: Rhythm In-Class Melodic Dictation 7-2: Motive and Sequence In-Class Harmonic Dictation 7-3: Cadences: Four- and Five-Chord Formulas Assignment Dictation 7-4: Rhythm Error Detection Assignment Dictation 7-5: Melodies: Motive and Sequence, Theme and Variation Assignment Dictation 7-6: Harmonic Dictation: Four-and Five-Chord Cadential Formulas UNIT 8 Embellishing Tones Part I: Singing Singing Exercise 8-1 Singing Exercise 8-2: Scale Degree Number Patterns Singing Exercise 8-3: Moveable "Do" Solfege Interval Singing: The 6th Singing Exercise 8-4: In-Class Interval Identification: Ascending and Descending Major/Minor 6ths Review: Embellishing Tones Melodies 8-1: The 6th in Arpeggiations and Appoggiaturas Singing Exercise 8-5: The Seventh Major Scale Degree Number Patterns and the 7th Singing Exercise 8-6: Solfege Functions and the Seventh Singing Exercise 8-7: In-Class Interval Identification: Ascending and Descending Major/Minor 7ths Melodies 8-2: The Seventh: Retardation, Appoggiatura, and Chord Tones Part II: Dictation In-Class Dictation 8-1: Melodies: The 6th and the 7th In-Class Dictation 8-2: Harmonic/Melodic: Cadences and Embellishing Tones Assignment Dictation 8-3: Interval Identification: 6ths and 7ths Assignment Dictation 8-4: Melodies: The 6th and the 7th Assignment Dictation 8-5: Cadences with Melodies: Embellishing Tones UNIT 9 Melodic Form/First Inversion Harmonies Part I: Singing All Interval Singing Singing Exercise 9-1 All Interval Identification: Consonance versus Dissonance Listening to and Classifying Intervals Singing Exercise 9-2: All Interval Identification Intervals and Inversion Singing Exercise 9-3: Ascending Intervals and Inversion Singing Exercise 9-4: Descending Intervals and Inversion Melodies 9-1 Part II: Dictation Melodic Form In-Class Dictation 9-1: Phrase Relationship Identification Harmonic Inversion Types of Inversions for Dictation In-Class Harmonic Dictation 9-2: The Supertonic and Dominant in First Inversion Assignment Dictation 9-3: Period Form Assignment Dictation 9-4: Harmonic Dictation: Cadences, Inversion PART 4 VOICE LEADING UNIT 10 Melodic Principles/The Outer-Voice Framework Part I: Singing Play-and-Sing (at the Keyboard) or Sing-and-Sing (Duets) Play-and-Sing/Duets 10-1 1:1 First Species, Note-Against-Note: Play-and-Sing or Singing Duets Play-and-Sing/Duets 10-2 2:1 Second Species, Two Notes Against One: Play-and-Sing or Singing Duets Part II: Dictation Introduction to Two-Part In-Class Dictation 10-1: 1:1 Two-Voice Dictation In-Class Dictation 10-2: 2:1 Two-Voice Dictation Counterpoint and Imitation Assignment Dictation 10-3 UNIT 11 Mediants Part I: Singing Mediants, iii, vi Major Scale Number Patterns Singing Exercise 11-1: Mediants Melodies 11-2: Mediants iii(III), vi(VI) Part II: Dictation Melodic Error Detection In-Class Error Detection 11-3 In-Class Harmonic Dictation 11-4: Mediants, V6, Longer Progressions Assignment Dictation 11-1: Melodies with Mediants Assignment Dictation 11-2: Harmonic Dictation UNIT 12 Harmonic Progression Part I: Singing Singing Exercise 12-1 Harmonic Progression Tonic Class Predominant Class The Dominant Class Melodies 12-2 Part II: Dictation In-Class Error Detection 12-1 In-Class Harmonic Dictation 12-2: Suspensions, Inversions, the Dominant 7th Assignment Dictation 12-3: Harmonic Dictation UNIT 13 Seventh Chords/Second-Inversion Harmonies Part I: Singing Singing Exercise 13-1-a: Seventh Chord Quality Singing Exercise 13-1 Rhythm 13-2: Syncopation Melodies 13-3: Dominant and Non-Dominant Seventh Chords, Syncopation Part II: Dictation Syncopation, the Six-Four Chord, Suspension, Retardation In-Class Rhythmic Dictation 13-1 In-Class Melodic Dictation 13-2 Harmonic Dictation: Second Inversion The Cadential Six-Four The Pedal Six-Four What to Listen For In-Class Harmonic Dictation 13-3 What to Listen For Assignment Dictation 13-4: Rhythmic Dictation Assignment Dictation 13-5: Melodic Dictation Assignment Dictation 13-6: Harmonic Dictation
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 781.42; Sight-singing; Musical dictation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000050615; 9781000050578; 9781000050592; 9780367814984
• Related ISBNs: 9780367415181; 9780367415174
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