Aural Awareness: Principles and Practice - Softcover

George Pratt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335094171 ISBN 13: 9780335094172

Publisher: Open University Press, 1990

Synopsis

Traditional aural training is heavily biased towards the perception and identification of pitch and rhythm. The authors of this book believe that this training too often dominates limited teaching time. Much of it can be best done alone and by tailoring tasks to individual needs, every student can make some encouraging progress. This makes time available for developing the perception of musical elements just as important yet often neglected because of their more abstract and qualitative nature - elements such as timbre, texture and density; compass range and tessitura; dynamics and articulation; ordering music and placing it in space. Although addressed primarily to groups of music students and their teachers, in universities, polytechnics, conservatoires and sixth-forms, the book is designed to encourage open-ended exploration generated by students' individual needs and enthusiasms. It aims to promote self-reliance and the confidence to begin to discover for oneself music of any age and/or culture.

About this title

About the Author:

George Pratt is at University of Huddersfield.

Review:

`The book's strength lies in the variety of excellent suggestions it makes for workable ear-training exercises in the class, lesson, or private-study context. It is, in essence an ideas book... the 'practice' side of aural training is well presented... I applaud Pratt's long overdue refocusing
of our attention on parameters other than pitch and rhythm... an ideas book, a practical handbook for the classroom or studio... the material is presented in an engaging and unpretentious manner and enlivened with the occasional dash of humor.'
Matthew S. Royal, Musical Perception, Fall 1999 Vol.17 No.1

About this edition

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0335094171
• ISBN 13: 9780335094172
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1