The Music for Ear Training CD-ROM and Workbook

Announcing the Music for Ear Training CD-ROM and Workbook Version 2.0 Michael Horvit Timothy Koozin Robert Nelson
Published by Schirmer	ISBN/ISSN: 0-534-57267-7
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Now fully compatible with Mac OS X and Windows XP

What's new in the second edition:

The newly designed interface and is fully compatible with Windows® 95, 98, 2000, XP and ME, as well as with Macintosh® OS 8, 9, and OS X.
Units 18-25 are completely new, providing an aural study of twentieth-century styles and techniques.
360 new melodic, harmonic and rhythmic dictation exercises provide students with a graded study in post-tonal and jazz idioms.

The Music for Ear Training CD-ROM and Workbook is a multimedia compendium of materials for the aural skills curriculum. With over fourteen hundred newly composed graded listening examples, musically shaped MIDI performances, and high-resolution graphics, the application is designed to help students sharpen their musical skills as they notate the music they hear. The software provides an easy-to-use interface for listening with varied General MIDI instrumental sounds.

The repertoire for dictation includes exercises on basic rudiments (intervals, chords and scales), melodies, four-part harmonic settings, and varied textures from musical literature. Students notate their responses in a workbook which provides a format for each exercise. Self-graded exercises provide the student with immediate feedback. Quizzes at the end of each unit provide an added challenge and a way for instructors to monitor the progress of the student. An Instructor's Edition provides answer keys for all material. Instructors who adopt the application can request the Instructor's Edition directly from the publisher.

The software application is complete on one CD-ROM for both Windows-compatible and Macintosh computers. The application runs directly from the CD-ROM with no installation required.

Screen images from the software. If images do not rotate, click here.

System Requirements:

Windows

Pentium processor & Windows 95 or later (95/98/2000/XP)
16-bit PCM sound card or General MIDI-compatible synthesizer

CD-ROM drive

Macintosh

PowerPC processor with Mac OS 7.5 or later. Fully supports Macintosh OS X.

QuickTime system extension or General MIDI-compatible synthesizer.

CD-ROM drive

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Intervals, Triads, and Scales
2. Rhythmic Dictation: Simple Meters, Melodic Dictation: Seconds, Thirds, and Fourths
3. Melodic Dictation: Fifths, Sixths, and Octaves, Harmonic Dictation: Four Part Settings of the Tonic Triad
4. Rhythmic Dictation: Beat Subdivision by 2, Melodic Dictation: The Tonic Triad and Dominant Seventh, Harmonic Dictation: The Tonic Triad and the Dominant Seventh
5. Rhythmic Dictation: Beat Subdivision by 4: Anacrusis, Melodic Dictation: Primary Triads and the Dominant Seventh, Harmonic Dictation: Primary Triads and the Dominant Seventh: Cadential Tonic Six-Four
6. Rhythmic Dictation: Dots and Ties, Melodic Dictation: Minor Mode, Harmonic Dictation: Minor mode: First Inversion of Triads
7. Melodic Dictation: The Supertonic Triad, Harmonic Dictation: The Supersonic Triad; Inversions of V7
8. Rhythmic Dictation: Compound Meter, Melodic Dictation: All Diotonic Triads, Harmonic Dictation: All Diotonic Triads 9. Rhythmic Dictation: Triplets, Melodic Dictation: Supertonic and Leading Tone Sevenths, Harmonic Dictation: Supertonic and Leading Tone Sevenths
10. Examples from Literature
11. Rhythmic Dictation: Syncopation, Melodic Dictation: Non-dominant Seventh Chords, Harmonic Dictation: Non-dominant Seventh Chords
12. Melodic Dictation: Scalar Variants, Modal Borrowing, and Decorative Chromaticism, Harmonic Dictation: Scalar Variants; Modal Borrowing
13. Melodic Dictation: Secondary Dominants, Harmonic Dictation: Secondary Dominants
14. Examples from Music Literature
15. Melodic Dictation: Modulation to Closely Related Keys; Harmonic Dictation: Modulation to Closely Related Keys
16. Rhythmic Dictation: Quintuple Meter, Melodic Dictation: The Neapolitan 6th Chord, Augmented Sixth Chords, and Modulation to Distantly Related Keys, Harmonic Dictation: The Neapolitan 6th Chord, Augmented Sixth Chords, Enharmonic Modulation
17. Examples from Music Literature
18. Rhythmic Dictation: Irregular Meters, Melodic Dictation: Diatonic Modes, Harmonic Dictation: Diatonic Modes
19. Rhythmic Dictation: Changing Meters. Part Music Dictation: Pandiatonicism
20. Rhythmic Dictation: Syncopation including Irregular and Mixed Meters. Melodic Dictation: Extended and Altered Tertian Harmony, Harmonic Dictation: Extended and Altered Tertian Harmony
21.Melodic Dictation: Exotic Scales, Part Music Dictation: Exotic Scales
22.Melodic Dictation: Quartal Harmony, Part Music Dictation: Quartal Harmony
23. Part Music Dictation: Polyharmony and Polytonality
24. Melodic Dictation: Interval Music
25. Melodic Dictation: Serial Music