Audio-Visual Ear Training Course. Level 1

Author: China Conservatory of Music, Composition Department, Solfege and Ear Training Teaching and Research Office
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book includes three main content areas: meter and rhythm, intervals and chords, and melody. These three elements work together and complement each other, forming an organic whole. It is best for each lesson to cover all three areas, or to focus on one area. The main content of this level includes: 4/2, 4/3, and 4/4 meters, commonly used notes and rests, simple rhythmic combinations of quarter notes, eighth notes, and sixteenth notes, dotted rhythms and syncopated rhythms; major, minor, and pure intervals within a key with one sharp or flat, major, minor, and triad chords in root position and inversions, and the connection of major triads. The treble and bass clefs, natural major scales, three minor modes, and five pentatonic modes within a key with one sharp or flat. This textbook is primarily intended for students of music conservatories and normal universities. It can also serve as a reference book for professional musicians, primary and secondary school music teachers in the early stages of teaching.