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 enlarge | Authors: Micheal Houlahan, Philip Tacka
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 65360
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Com/Ch
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Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 1
ISBN: 0195327705
Dewey Decimal Number: 781.2
EAN: 9780195327700
ASIN: 0195327705
Publication Date: June 2, 2008
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Serious ear training from a very different approach July 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As an undergraduate music major in college, I remember my beginning ear training experiences in Ear Training I, and I remember just how nerve-racking the dictations were, especially the melodic dictations. It wasn't that I couldn't do them; it's just that I had never had to listen to such specific aspects of music such as the exact relationship between pitches, and I wasn't exactly sure what I was doing. Sometime in my second year of study I finally began to feel more secure in knowing how to listen to a piece of music and then sing the different solfege syllables. Further, the melodies used in the textbooks to help develop my listening skills were not melodies I could sing without the help of the piano. In fact, I had never heard of most of them before. All the musical concepts were presented with the notation first and the sound second. It was, "These are the first five notes of the major scale, and here are five different melodies that use these sounds. Go practice the melodies and be ready to sing them next class." Talk about stress!
From Sound to Symbol takes a completely different approach to ear training. In this book, the authors present a method for working from the sounds of music to the symbols of music. Instead of labeling a symbol first, you learn a song from which you then discover musical concepts and relationships among the different sounds. While I don't think that as an undergraduate I would have found this text to be easy, I am convinced I would have had a better understanding of music in a shorter amount of time. This text and approach will really help you develop your listening skills, and it is written so that it can be used with 5th grade students, graduate students, and everyone in between. If you are serious about developing your aural skills and understanding how the sounds of music relate to each other, this book will provide you with the materials and strategies to help you become a confident, competent listener.
Great book! July 3, 2008
The textbook exposes the learner to understanding sounds in a whole new way. The concept of learning the sound before symbol is an approach that allows students to audiate what is heard before seeing or writing anything. The book also contains pieces that can be used in your music classroom, such as identifying form,composition,sight-reading exercises, rhythmic activities, and canons (simple and complex).
I wish I had this approach in school. July 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sound to Symbol is book that will push your students or even you better be a better musician. This book will make you develop your inner hearing. Through this development you will become a better musician, and thus be able to help you student's better. But this book is not just for teachers, it for anyone in the 5th grade and 100 years old that wants to become a better musician. This book will literally take you from the very basic beginnings of learning about music all way to some advanced concepts. I would highly recommend this book.
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