Developing Musicianship Through Aural Skills

A Holistic Approach to Sight Singing and Ear Training

By Kent Cleland, Mary Dobrea-Grindahl

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• ISBN: 978-0-415-80244-4
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 4th February 2010
• Pages: 592

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About the Book

Developing Musicianship Through Aural Skills is a comprehensive textbook for learning to hear, sing, understand, and use the foundations of music as a part of an integrated curriculum for musicians. Organized to take advantage of the way we naturally hear and understand music, this textbook 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.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Simple Meter, Rests and Phrases; The Major Mode, Major Triads and Tonic Function 2. Compound Meters, Ties and Dots; The Minor Mode, Inverted Triads 3. Changing Meter; The Dominant Sound 4. Triplets and Duplets; Seventh Chords and Predominant Function 5. Less Common Meters; C Clefs and Harmonic Progression 6. Syncopation; Beginning Non-Modulating Chromaticism 7. Triplets and Duplets; More Non-Modulating Chromaticism 8. Triplets; Other Clefs; Beginning Modulation 9. Reading Complex Rhythms; More Complex Modulation 10. 20^th Century Rhythmic Techniques 11. 20^th Century Material based on Tonal Models 12. 20^th Century Material based on Non-Tonal Models 13. Appendices

About the Author(s)

Kent D. Cleland is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Music Theory at the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music. He holds degrees from Ohio University, Indiana University, and the University of Cincinnati, and he has taught at the University of Cincinnati and Oberlin College.

Mary Dobrea-Grindahl holds the Diplôme Jaques-Dalcroze from the Institute Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva, Switzerland. She is an Associate Professor of Piano and Chair of the Keyboard Department at the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, where she teaches private piano, pedagogy, Eurhythmics, and solfège.

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