Product Description

This workbook and CD-ROM combination is designed to help students improve their listening/ear-training skills. Students notate the music in the workbook as they listen to the CD. The dual-format CD-ROM provides an easy-to-use interface for listening with varied General MIDI instrumental sounds. The repertoire for dictation includes exercises on basic rudiments (intervals, chords, and scales), melodies, four-part harmonic settings, and varied textures from musical literature.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #471303 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 529 pages

About the Author
Michael Horvit is Professor of Composition and Theory at the Moores School of Music. His works range from solo instrumental and vocal pieces to large symphonic and choral compositions and operas; widely performed in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Israel. He has published with C.F.Peters, MorningStar, Recital Publications, Shawnee Press, E.C.Schirmer, Southern, and Transcontinental, and has CDs with the Albany label. Horvit’s awards include the Martha Baird Rockefeller award as well as the National Endowment for the Arts.

Customer Reviews

Its a fast-cash fraud
First of all, there is no "book". What you receive is an almost empty workbook (of the kind you could buy in any papershop), and a CD with a poorly designed software.
If you want some quality, buy a common, GOOD music notebook and a GOOD ear training software, like EarMaster School. This book is a waste of money. I bought it, do not make the same mistake.

Required for school!
I am a music major and part of my required curriculum is that I take two years of ear training. This book was obligatory for all four semesters of aural comprehension and very helpful in practicing lessons learned in class. If you were to use this as a self-taught book, this is not the book to buy. This book is a bound book of aural comprehension worksheet drills for homework that should be supplemented with a real text and teacher. For a great text to learn ear training, sight singing, and complex rhythms, buy Rhythm and Pitch.

Attention College Students
This book is one of the very best sources available to practice ear training (dictation), especially if you are a music major in college. It starts at a simple level and takes you through melodic and harmonic dictation in a methodical manner. If you are having trouble with music dictation in college buy this book; use it over the summer to keep your skills up. The CD-ROM element is perfect for playing melodies and harmonic progressions to you for practice. I have spent much time and money looking into these ear training methods and this is one of the very best. - Wayne Dieterich, BM, MA, MM, CRCCO, ChM. AAGO.