Title: MLR Instrumental Score Reading Program
Description: GIA's score reading program teaches the vital skills of conducting: the ability to analyze scores and then detect errors in performance. Performances of a diverse selection of music are recorded on a CD with errors built in. Students listen to the performance and evaluate the tempo, balance, tone quality, and intonation (among other characteristics) of the performance. They must consider stylistic as well as harmonic relationships. Students compare their analysis to those of a panel of experts. Next they will hear a taped "acceptable" performance of the excerpt. The MLR Instrumental Score Reading Program is designed to improve visual-aural discrimination skills. - Publisher.