Highlights
A comprehensive introduction to music theory
The Musician’s Guide to Aural Skills integrates basic rudiments training with tonal theory, counterpoint, form and analysis, and 20–21st-century music.
Exposure to a diverse repertoire
Repertoire in The Musician’s Guide to Aural Skills draws on "real" music literature in a variety of media—choral, instrumental, solo, and various ensembles—from Western classical to jazz and pop.
Integrating theory with practice
The Musician’s Guide to Aural Skills combines aural and keyboard training with applied music theory through many coordinated exercises in sight singing, dictation, improvisation, and composition.
Flexibility of instruction
The integrated package provides the richness of music-theoretic content students need, yet encourages instructors to incorporate a performance-related approach into the classroom.
Direct conceptual reinforcement
Students benefit from an abundance of written, aural, and keyboard exercises to reinforce key concepts and to challenge them at every ability level. Additional web materials augment the core texts. Instructors’ Editions provide answers for all exercises as well as teaching strategies.
Well-rounded musicians
The Musician’s Guide to Aural Skills teaches essential concepts in music theory and analysis while strengthening practical performance skills in improvisation, dictation, singing, and keyboard.
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