Developing Musicianship through Aural Skills

Preface

The Method

Syllable Systems

Reading in Clefs

Module 1: Simple Meters

Module 1a: Simple Beats and Their First Division and Multiple Note Values

Module 1b: Simple Duple and Quadruple Meters

Module 1c: Simple Triple Meters

Module 1d: Second Division and Multiple of the Beat in Simple Meters

Module 1e: Rests

Module 1f: Ties and Dotted Rhythms in Simple Meters

Module 1g: The Anacrusis

Module 1h: Less Common Simple Meters

Module 2: Major and Minor Scales and Scale Degrees

Module 2a: Major Scales and Scale Degrees

Module 2b: Minor Scales and Scale Degrees

Module 3: Improvisation

Module 3a: Introduction to Improvisation

Module 3b: Methods for Improvisation and Improvising Tonic Function

Module 3c: Improvising Dominant Function

Module 3d: Improvising Predominant Function

Module 3e: Improvisation Through Arpeggiation

Module 4: Compound Meters

Module 4a: Compound Beats and Their First Division and Multiple Note Values

Module 4b: Second Division of the Beat in Compound Meter

Module 4c: Less Common Compound Meters

Module 5: Intervals

Module 5a: Hearing and Singing Intervals Acontextually

Module 5b: Major and Minor Seconds

Module 5c: Major and Minor Thirds

Module 5d: Perfect Fifths and Octaves

Module 5e: Perfect Fourths

Module 5f: Minor and Major Sixths

Module 5g: Tritones

Module 5h: Minor and Major Sevenths

Module 6: Triads

Module 6a: Hearing and Singing Acontextual Triads

Module 6b: Root Position Major Triads

Module 6c: Root Position Minor Triads

Module 6d: Inverted Major and Minor Triads

Module 6e: Diminished Triads

Module 7: Seventh Chords

Module 7a: Singing and Hearing Seventh Chords Acontextually

Module 7b: Dominant Seventh Chords in Root Position

Module 7c: Dominant Seventh Chords in Inversion

Module 7d: Minor Seventh Chords

Module 7e: Half-Diminished Seventh Chords

Module 7f: Fully-Diminished Seventh Chords

Module 7g: Major Seventh Chords

Module 8: Common Diatonic Harmonic Progressions

Module 8a: Cadences and Phrasing

Module 8b: The TPDT Progression

Module 8c: Circle of Fifths Progressions

Module 8d: Filled-In Descending Thirds (Pachelbel) Progressions

Module 8e: Ascending Sequential Progressions

Module 9: Irregular Division and Syncopation

Module 9a: Triplets

Module 9b: Duplets

Module 9c: Syncopation Within a Measure (Intra-measure Syncopation)

Module 9d: Syncopation Across a Barline (Inter-measure Syncopation)

Module 9e: Triplets in Augmentation and Diminution

Module 9f: Other Divisions of the Beat

Module 9g: Reading Complex Rhythms

Module 10: Non-modulating Chromaticism

Module 10a: The Chromatic Scale and Surface Chromaticism

Module 10b: Modal Mixture

Module 10c: Secondary Chords in the Major Mode

Module 10d: Secondary Chords in the Minor Mode

Module 10e: Neapolitan and Augmented Sixth Chords

Module 10f: Extended, Added Note, and Altered Chords

Module 11: Modulation

Module 11a: Techniques for Modulation

Module 11b: Modulation Between Relative Keys

Module 11c: Modulation to the Dominant

Module 11d: Modulation to Other Closely Related Keys

Module 11e: Modulation to Distantly Related Keys

Module 12: Changing Meter, Polyrhythm, and Asymmetric Meters

Module 12a: Changing Meter

Module 12b: Metric Modulation

Module 12c: Polyrhythms and Polymeters

Module 12d: Meters with Unequal Beats

Module 13: Other Tonally Derived Scales

Module 13a: Pentatonic and Blues Scales

Module 13b: The Ecclesiastic Modes

Module 13c: Synthetic Scales

Module 13d: Polytonality and Polymodality

Module 14: Post-tonal Music

Module 14a: Whole Tone and Octatonic Scales

Module 14b: Post-tonal Music

Appendices

Appendix A Glossary of Non-English Musical Terms

Appendix B Using Your Voice: Suggestions for Vocal Production for Non-singers

Index of Literature Examples

Credits