Justin Merritt: Comprehensive Aural Skills, Gebunden

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Comprehensive Aural Skills, Third Edition is a complete suite of material for both performance and dictation, covering the wide range of sight singing and ear training skills required for undergraduate courses of study. It provides a series of instructional modules on rhythm, melody, and harmony, and blends musical examples from the common-practice repertory with original examples composed to specifically address particular skills and concepts. Each module includes material for classroom performance, self-directed study, and homework assignments.

Features:

• A complete suite of aural skills material : Comprehensive Aural Skillsis a combined sight singing and ear training textbook, audio, and digital resource package.
• Fully modular, customizable organization: Instructors can choose freely from the set of exercises in the book and supplemental material on the Instructor and Student Resources website to appropriately tailor the curriculum based on their students' needs.
• Engaging and idiomatic musical examples: Examples are selected and composed specifically for the didactic context of an aural skills classroom.
• Dictation exercises for practice and assignment: Practice exercises include an answer key so students can work independently and receive immediate feedback, while homework assignments are given without a key.
• Audio examples for dictation: The free-to-access website hosts live recordings of acoustic instruments performed by professional musicians for each dictation exercise and homework assignment.
• Supplemental materials for instructors: A wealth of material for class use and assignment available digitally.
• Teacher's guide: The guide includes answers for every homework assignment, brief commentary on each module's content, tips for integrating written theory, and strategies on how to effectively teach new concepts and skills.

This updated Third Edition includes the following:

• New modules on jazz harmony and modal harmonies.
• More examples from the literature.
• Difficulty levels of examples now indicated throughout the book, improving ease of use.
• New recordings available on the website, now including a wider array of instrumentation.
• Revised, more modular homework assignments.
• Fully updated and free to access Instructor and Student Resources website.