Aural Skills in Context

A Comprehensive Approach to Sight Singing, Ear Training, Keyboard Harmony, and Improvisation
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-994382-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 864 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 2132 g

Aural Skills in Context by Matthew Shaftel, Evan Jones, and Juan Chattah is the first complete text covering sight singing, ear training, and rhythm practice that features real musical examples (from classical to folk and jazz) as the composer wrote them. Other texts either feature simple melody lines that are edited from the standard repertoire or author-composed examples. By offering the melodies with the addition of the related harmony part, the book parallels
the full Music Theory curriculum, resulting in a more comprehensive engagement than the typical sight-singing text. This approach reinforces the relevance of the aural skills curriculum to the students' other classes, as well as to their performance and listening interests. It exposes students to
many examples of music that they will surely revisit as performers, scholars, or educators. It also gives a wealth of options for the instructor and students, going well beyond simply singing the melodies or writing them down from dictation. Improvisation; performance by multiple voices; switching between melody and accompanying lines; and creating new melodies above a given bass line, or an additional obbligato voice above the given melody or between the outer voices are all
possible.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shaftel, Matthew R.

Jones, Evan

Chattah, Juan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Partituren, Autographen, Libretti, Liederbücher

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew R. Shaftel, Associate Professor of Music Theory, received Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees from Yale University, where he won the prestigious Undergraduate Teaching Prize. He holds a B.A. degree in Music and Education, also from Yale University.

Evan Jones, Associate Professor of Music Theory and Coordinator of Music Theory and Composition, holds the Ph.D. in music theory and the D.M.A. in cello performance from the Eastman School of Music.

Juan Chattah is assistant professor of theory and composition at the University of Miami Frost School of Music. He holds a M.M. and a Ph.D. in Music Theory and Composition from Florida State University, a B.M. in Piano Performance from the Utrecht Conservatorium (The Netherlands), and a Certificate of Music Education from the Conservatorio de Musica in Cordoba (Argentina).