Singing and Dictation for Today's Musician

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" Sys
• 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: Ascendin
• 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 Inter
• 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 I
• 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
• 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
• 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 S
• 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
• 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 Int
• 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 Secon
• 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
• 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, Invers
• 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 Synco
• UNIT 14 Uses of the Six-Four Chord Part I: Singing All-Inversion Harmonic Dictation All Suspensions/Retardations Harmonic Dictation The Passing Six-Four The Arpeggiating Six-Four The Dominant in Third Inversion - V 4/2 In-Class Harmonic Dictation 14-1 In
• PART FIVE CHROMATIC MATERIALS
• UNIT 15 Secondary Function I Part I: Singing Singing Exercise 15-1: V/V Singing Exercise 15-2: Other Secondary Functions: V/ii, V/iii, V/iv, V/vi, V/VII Adding a 7th to a Secondary Dominant: The Tonicizing Tritone Melodies 15-3 Part II: Dictation Second
• UNIT 16 Secondary Function II The Secondary Leading Tone Chord Part I: Singing Preliminary Exercises Singing Exercise 16-1 Melodies 16-2 Part II: Dictation In-Class Melodic Dictation 16-1 In-Class Harmonic Dictation 16-2: Secondary Leading Tone Seventh
• UNIT 17 Modulation I Closely Related Keys Modulation by Common Chord Part I: Singing In-Class Exercise 17-1 Melodies 17-2: Modulation to Closely Related Keys Part II: Dictation In-Class Dictation 17-1: Modulating Pitch Patterns In-Class Harmonic Dictati
• PART SIX COUNTERPOINT
• UNIT 18 The Art of Countermelody Part I: Singing Singing Exercise 18-1: Play-and-Sing Part II: Dictation In-Class Dictation 18-1 Assignment Dictation 18-2: Theme and Variations
• UNIT 19 The Fugue Part I: Singing Singing Exercise 19-1: Subjects and Answers Part II: Dictation Subjects and Answers In-Class Dictation 19-1 Assignment Dictation 19-2
• PART SEVEN ADVANCED CHROMATIC HARMONY AND FORM
• UNIT 20 Mixing Modes Modal Borrowing versus Change of Mode Part I: Singing Singing Exercise 20-1: Modal Borrowing Melodies 20-2 Part II: Dictation In-Class Melodic Dictation 20-1 In-Class Harmonic Dictation 20-2 Assignment Dictation 20-3 Assignment Dict
• UNIT 21 Altered Pre-Dominant I The Neapolitan Chord Part I: Singing Singing Exercise 21-1 Melodies 21-2 Part II: Dictation In-Class Dictation 21-1 In-Class Dictation 21-2
• UNIT 22 Altered Pre-Dominant II The Augmented Sixth Chord Part I: Singing Singing Exercise 22-1 Melodies 22-2 Part II: Dictation In-Class Dictation 22-1: Melodic Pitch Patterns: The Augmented Sixth In-Class Dictation 22-2 Assignment Dictation 22-3: Harm
• UNIT 23 Modulation II Chromatic Modulation Part I: Singing Singing Exercise 23-1 Enharmonic Modulations Using the Diminished Seventh Chord and the German Sixth The Diminished Seventh Linear Uses of the Diminished Seventh Singing Drill 23-1 Linear Uses of
• UNIT 24 Harmonic Extensions The Dominant 9th, 13th, and Supertonic 9th Part I: Singing Singing Exercise 24-1 Melodies 24-2 The Predominant (Supertonic) 9th Singing Exercise 24-2: Supertonic 9ths and Dominant 13ths Part II: Dictation In-Class Dictation 2
• UNIT 25 Binary and Ternary Forms Review and Reinforcement Binary and Ternary Forms Part I: Singing Melodies 25-1 Review and Reinforcement Part II: Dictation In-Class Dictation 25-1: Melodic Dictation and Form Identification Assignment Dictation 25-2: Mel
• PART EIGHT TWENTIETH-CENTURY MATERIALS
• UNIT 26 Syntax and Vocabulary Part I: Singing Modality Review and Reinforcement Singing Exercise 26-1a: Church Modes The Pentatonic Scale Singing Exercise 26-1b: Pentatonic Scales Quartal and Quintal Harmony Clustering Singing Exercise 26-1c Modes of Lim
• UNIT 27 New Tonal Methods Part I: Singing Quartal and Quintal Harmonies Singing Exercise 27-1 Singing Exercise 27-2 Polytonality/Bitonality Singing Exercise 27-3: Duets/Play-and-Sing Bimodality/Polymodality Singing Exercise 27-4: Duets/Play-and-Sing Par
• UNIT 28 Non-Serial Atonality Atonality Part I: Singing Singing Exercise 28-1: Trichords and Tetrachords Singing Exercise 28-2: Trichord Set Singing and Improvisation Singing Exercise 28-3: Tetrachord Set Singing and Improvisation Singing Exercise 28-4: S
• UNIT 29 Serial Atonality Basic Tenets of the Twelve-Tone Method Part I: Singing Singing Exercise 29-1 Other Forms of the Row: Combinatoriality Singing Exercise 29-2 Singing Exercise 29-3 Row Symmetry: Derived Sets Melodies 29-1 Part II: Dictation In-Cla
• Glossary
• Index