Product Description

Now in its second edition, A New Approach to Ear Training provides students with the means to master ear-training skills on their own and at their own pace. Organized into four large sections of crefully graded exercises that correspond to the progression of material in most theory courses, A New Approach to Ear Training offers instructors remarkable flexibility, enabling them to use the book as an assigned text or as a supplement for students to work through on their own. The text truly heralds a new approach to teaching ear training and aural skills.

Melodic and Harmonic Dictation--The Second Edition now features chapters on both melodic and harmonic (four-part) dictation-all the necessary material for ear-training classes gathered into one text. This approach encourages students to recognize the long-range harmonic organization and overall structure that the melodies imply.
* A wealth of melodies from the standard music literature are interspersed with newly written melodies that gradually introduce increasingly complex musical elements.
* Exercises in harmonic dictation direct students' attention to voice leading, particularly between the soprano and bass, and ask students to identify chords, inversions, and large-scale harmonic function.

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* A smart new design-featuring cleat headings and shaded boxes-makes the text easy to navigate.
* A carefully conceived progression of exercises in each chapter introduces new concepts one at a time.
* Lessons include drills in special topics, designed so that students can work on their own. These drills-like sessions in a practice room-allow students to focus on particular problem areas.
* Review lessons help students prepare for the tests included in the text.
* Music examples represent an array of tonal styles.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #685643 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

About the Author
Leo Kraft, professor emeritus at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College of the City University of New York, is renowned as a composer, music theorist, and teacher. Among his other textbooks are A New Approach to Sight Singing, Fourth Edition (with Sol Berkowitz and Gabriel Fontrier), A New Approach to Keyboard Harmony (with Allen Brings et al.), and Gradus, Second Edition-all published by W.W. Norton.

Customer Reviews

Book comes withOUT the necessary CDs
Find another place to buy this book. It is a workbook, and the way it works is that you listen to short tracks on CD's and use the worksheets in the book to dictate what you hear. As a workbook and a method, it is fantastic. Just don't buy it at Amazon. Why?

This book is supposed to come with 4 (yes, FOUR) audio CDs. If you buy it here, you will get the book, but you will NOT get the CD's.

I ordered mine, paid $13 for express shipping so I could start working on it over the weekend. I am returning my copy to Amazon, and have ordered a copy with the CDs from my school's bookstore. It cost me about $30 more, but the book is useless without the audio.

It's hard to understand the lack of thinking that took place, wherever the decision was made to make this book available without the CDs- or, at least, to make it available without the CD's and NOT CLEARLY COMMUNICATE THAT THEY ARE ESSENTIAL AND NOT INCLUDED. It makes about as much sense as selling someone a car and shipping it to them without tires on the wheels.