Foundations of Aural Skills
About This Book
Paying Close Attention Our first goal is simply to build the skill of paying close attention. Unfortunately, our attentional capacities are limited: we simply cannot pay attention to everything available to us. Fortunately, there are strategies we can use when we want to maximize our ability to use the attentional capacities we have. For example, we can use stress-reduction and centering techniques to make sure we are as “fully present” as possible with what we are listening to. These include de
| Category | arts |
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| Subject | The Arts, Theory of music and musicology, Educational: Music |
| Year | 2023 |
| Authors | |
| Chapters | 64 |
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| Price | |
| Institution | Utah State University |
| License | Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ |
Chapters
- Paying Close Attention
- Holistic/Gestalt Hearing
- Listening for Affect
- Exploring Movement and Music
- Measures
- Conducting
- Pickups/Anacruses
- Beat Divisions
- Swing
- Feeling Meter Internally
- Identifying Meter By Ear
- Understanding Time Signatures
- Extensions of Meter
- Solfège
- Setting Up an Internal Map of Key
- Musical Dynamics
- Formalizing Chunks
- Reinforcing Auditory Memory
- Extractive Listening
- Memorization
- Tuning Intervals
- Working with Short Tonal Melodies
- Subvocalization
- Building Auditory Imagery Flexibility
- Rhythm and Meter Through Protonotation
- Subdivision
- Simple Meter: Simple Divisions
- Mixed Meter, Triplets, and Duplets
- Identifying Both Rhythm and Meter
- Rhythm, Meter, and Pacing
- Contour and Shape
- Embellishing a Structure
- Improvising a Bass Line
- Improvising a Melody to a Chord Progression
- Determining Meter and Key
- Playing Back Rhythm
- Adding Bass Lines
- Choosing a Meter
- Transcribing Rhythms
- Putting Melodic Transcription All Together
- Transcribing Bass Lines
- Getting Started Transcribing Harmony
- Transcription with Notation Shorthand
- Establishing Visual Anchor Points
- Sight Reading in Chunks
- Eye Movements
- Musicality
- Pitch Accuracy
- Rhythmic Accuracy
- Sight Reading and Harmony
- Setting Up Context for an Ensemble
- Moving/Playing Together as a Group
- Error Detection and Correction
- Improvising Together
- Understanding the Process of Dictation Step-By-Step
- Setting an Intention
- Memory: Chunking and Extractive Listening
- Notation
- Assessment of Dictation
- Putting it All Together
- Identifying Common Chords Through Exposure
- Using a Chord Instrument
- Improvisation over a Chord Progression
- Strategies for Further Growth