Aural Skills in Context: A Comprehensive Approach to Sight Singing, Ear Training, Keyboard Harmony, and Improvisation - Softcover

Shaftel, Matthew R.; Jones, Evan; Chattah, Juan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199943826 ISBN 13: 9780199943821

Publisher: OUP USA, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"I love Aural Skills in Context's concept of studying pieces in context and the focusing on, not just isolated melodies for singing, but on parts for all to sing together. This text has great examples and standards."--Robert Glarner, Radford University

"Providing harmonic context for all the music makes a lot of sense--and the Chorale Workshop exercises are great as are the Contextual assignments at the end of each chapter."--Cindy Moyer, Humboldt State University

"I am impressed with the 'Contextual Listening' assignments that are on the book's website that offer the ability to switch tempos and mix parts."--Louise A. Weiss, Greenville College

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199943826
• ISBN 13: 9780199943821
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 864