Aural Skills

Dictation

• Intervals
  • Songs for interval recognition
• Melodic
  • Practice doing dictation using the technique of "protonotation"
• Harmonic
  • Bass patterns, modes, and 7ths chords.
• Miscellaneous
  • Figure out the accents in that famous passage from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
  • Listen to a short excerpt by Corelli and notate it.
  • Transcribe the bass and soprano of this well-known passage from a Mozart Piano Concerto.
  • AP Theory Exam - Try the aural recognition questions from the 2002 Sample AP Exam. Audio files are available in .mp3 format

Rhythm reading

• Practice your basic conducting patterns with this animated helper.
• Practice some of the basic beat units in 6/8 time using the Eastman counting system.
• Example 10.B in your rhythm book
• Compound time practice with audio support!
• Syncopations and ties in compound time.
• Simple time syncopation .pdf file
• Example 9.D from Studying Rhythm .

Sightsinging

• Solfege practice
• Solfege practice in F major
• Practice singing duet parts
• Train yourself to read ahead more effectively.
• Curwen" hand signs for solfege