<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">One afternoon, several years ago, I was sitting at the piano in my classroom playing a dictation over and over for my students when it suddenly dawned on me (after 40 years of teaching) that I was wasting my time and theirs by doing dictation each week in class. I went home that night and started to compose a set of melodic and harmonic dictations for each of the four levels of our Musicianship sequence. Now, each week I email my students a new assignment. They work on the challenge at home and return it to me by email as a PDF file derived from a notation program such as Finale or Sibelius. Thus, I am able to correct their work immediately and redirect them to problem areas. I have found that, along with the dictation instruction I do in class, the sixteen assignments each semester allow the students to work at their own pace in a real life environment. The students are all required to purchase MacGamut and are expected to be progressing through that program on their own as a way to prepare for the diagnostic challenges I email them.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 12, 2010, at 12:58 AM, Matthew Schildt wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear collective wisdom,<br><br>I currently teach the complete Aural Skills sequence at Adams State<br>College and am struggling deciding how to supplement the final Aural<br>Skills course. The first 5 weeks of the course covers linear/extended<br>tertian harmonies and expanded tonicization, while the remaining 10 weeks<br>covers melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic practices of the 20th century. 20th<br>century topics include modal, whole-tone, and octatonic melodic dictations<br>and quartal, quintal, and polychordal harmonic progressions. The program<br>MacGamut has been a great tool for the preceding Aural Skills courses, but<br>is of little use for the above mentioned topics. Does anyone know of an<br>ear training program that effectively covers these topics? Has anyone<br>found success creating a supplemental Aural Skills listening CD? I am<br>hoping that later versions of MacGamut incorporate, at the very least,<br>modal melodic dictations and harmonic progressions with chords such as the<br>V+, V9, and ct7. This course meets only twice per week (as is usually the<br>case) and out of class practice will likely be very beneficial. I look<br>forward to hearing recommendations.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Dr. Matthew Schildt<br>Assistant Professor of Music<br>Adams State College<br>Alamosa, CO 81102<br>(719)587-7606<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Smt-talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Smt-talk@societymusictheory.org">Smt-talk@societymusictheory.org</a><br>http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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