Solfège and Ear Training Step-by-Step. Level 2

Author: China Conservatory of Music, Composition Department, Ear Training and Sight-Singing 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 and mode. These three elements complement and integrate to form an organic whole. It is recommended that each lesson covers all three areas, or focus can be placed on one particular area. The main content of this level includes: 8/3 and 8/6 meters and their anacrusis rhythms; practicing dotted rhythms, syncopation, tied notes (triplets), and rests (eighth rests, sixteenth rests) in 4/2, 4/3, and 4/4 meters; identifying and resolving major and minor seconds, sevenths, and augmented fourths and diminished fifths in major and minor modes; recognizing and resolving the original and inverted forms of major, minor, augmented, and diminished triads; identifying and resolving tonic and dominant triads within a key, as well as connecting tonic and secondary triads; sight-singing and ear training for monophonic and duophonic melodies in D major, B major, b minor, g minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor, as well as five pentatonic and hexatonic modes in the D and B system. This textbook is primarily intended for students of music conservatories and normal universities. It can also serve as a reference for professional musicians and primary school music teachers in the early stages of teaching.