Aural Skills Acquisition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Format: hardback
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780195117851
Description: "Aural Skills Acquisition builds important bridges between music theory, cognitive psychology, and pedagogy. It subjects ideas from music theory to the rigors of psychological testing and combines findings from the psychology of learning with ideas and methods of contemporary music theory. It will prove an invaluable guide for music teachers, music theorists, ad psychologists interested in music perception and cognition."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I: Listening Skills; title: One: Identification of Basic Features; title: Two: Preliminary Listening Skills; title: Three: Melodic Dictation; title: Four: Polyphonic and Harmonic Dictation; title: Five: Other Listening Skills; title: Part II: Reading and Performing Skills; title: Six: Fundamental Reading and Performing Skills; title: Seven: Sight Reading; title: Eight: More Complex Reading Skills; title: References; title: Index