Modern Music Sight-Singing Tutorial

Author: Zheng Min
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This tutorial is suitable for students of all majors in music conservatories. Regardless of the major one studies, without training in this area, it is difficult to transcend one's existing knowledge and keep pace with the current development of music. This tutorial selects excerpts from the works of modern Chinese and foreign composers who have used modern compositional techniques, which are suitable for sight-singing and have practice value, as teaching materials. Through the study of monophony, polyphony, and rhythm and meter, students will become familiar with various compositional techniques and principles in modern music, such as the expansion of tonality to atonality, as well as new breakthroughs in the use of rhythm and meter. This will help them gain some intuitive understanding of modern music and lay a certain foundation for learning and mastering modern musical works in terms of auditory perception. At the same time, this can also serve as a window for students to gain a glimpse of 20th-century music.