Singing and Dictation for Today's Musician expands the Today's Musician family of textbooks to encompass the essential elements of musicianship and aural skills training. Featuring chapters that correspond to the organization of Theory for Today's Musician, this new textbook complements the theory text to offer a complete curriculum package, allowing students and instructors to reinforce written theory skills with relevant musicianship exercises. Combining sight singing and dictation in a single volume, this new textbook underscores the value of combining the human senses in understanding the intellectual and analytic concepts of music theory.

Features of this text include:

• Flexibility for the instructor in using moveable or fixed "Do," scale degree numbers, and neutral syllables for singing
• Both singing and dictation exercises included in each unit, allowing the two skills to be fully integrated
• Companion website with audio recordings and instructor keys for the exercises, at www.routledge.com/cw/mccarthy
• Units match the pacing and order of topics in Theory for Today's Musician, allowing the texts to be easily used in sync.

Beginning with fundamentals and continuing up through twentieth-century materials, Singing and Dictation for Today's Musician allows instructors to closely align their teaching of musicianship and aural skills with the written theory curriculum, enhancing student understanding of core music principles.

Daniel McCarthy is a familiar name in contemporary American music. As a composer, he has received distinguished faculty research/creativity awards at Indiana State University and The University of Akron, Ohio.

Ralph Turek is a theorist, composer, author, jazz pianist, Professor Emeritus at The University of Akron, Ohio, and a veteran of 35 years of teaching in the music theory classroom.

Singing and Dictation for Today's Musician expands the Today's Musician family of textbooks to encompass the essential elements of musicianship and aural skills training. Featuring chapters that correspond to the organization of Theory for Today's Musician, this new textbook complements the theory text to offer a complete curriculum package, allowing students and instructors to reinforce written theory skills with relevant musicianship exercises. Combining sight singing and dictation in a single volume, this new textbook underscores the value of combining the human senses in understanding the intellectual and analytic concepts of music theory.

Features of this text include:

• Flexibility for the instructor in using moveable or fixed "Do," scale degree numbers, and neutral syllables for singing
• Both singing and dictation exercises included in each unit, allowing the two skills to be fully integrated
• Companion website with audio recordings and instructor keys for the exercises, at www.routledge.com/cw/mccarthy
• Units match the pacing and order of topics in Theory for Today's Musician, allowing the texts to be easily used in sync.

Beginning with fundamentals and continuing up through twentieth-century materials, Singing and Dictation for Today's Musician allows instructors to closely align their teaching of musicianship and aural skills with the written theory curriculum, enhancing student understanding of core music principles.

PART ONE FUNDAMENTALS

Introduction Assorted Preliminaries Singing: A Voice Leading/Schenkerian Approach Notations and Pitch Matters: Clefs The Solfege Syllable System Solmization Chromatic Inflections Raising Pitch Lowering Pitch The Fixed "Do" System versus Moveable "Do" System and Other Methods

UNIT 1 The Church Modes Part I: Singing Singing Exercise #1 Singing Exercise #2 Simple and Compound Meter Singing Exercise #3 Part II: Dictation Mode Identification and Spelling In-Class Dictation 1-1 Assignment Dictation 1-2

UNIT 2 Intervals of the Major and Minor Scale Part I: Singing I. Intervals of the Major and Minor Scale Singing Exercise #1: Ascending Intervals of the Major Scale Singing Exercise #2: Descending Intervals of the Major Scale Singing Exercise #3: Ascending Intervals of the Natural Minor Scale Singing Exercise #4: Descending Intervals of the Natural Minor Scale The Major/Minor 2nd in Major and Minor Keys Singing Exercise Set #1: The Major/Minor 2nd in Major Keys In-Class and Assignment Singing Exercise Set #2: The Major/Minor 2nd in Minor Keys Melodies 2-1 Rhythm Reading 2-2: Simple Meter, Divisions of the Beat In-Class Interval Singing: 2-3 (Quizzing) Part II: Dictation In-Class Identification 2-1 (Dictation): Interval Identification In-Class Dictation 2-2: Melody Identification (An Introduction to Melodic Dictation) Assignment Dictation 2-3: Rhythm Assignment Dictation 2-4: Melody (Online Listening)

PART TWO DIATONIC HARMONY

UNIT 3 Basic Harmonic Structures Part I: Singing Singing Exercise 3-1 Singing Exercise 3-1a Singing Exercise 3-2 Melodies 3-1 Singing Exercise 3-3 Melodies 3-2 In-Class Interval Singing 3-3 (Quizzing) Rhythm 3-1: Error Detection Part II: Dictation Interval Identification 3-1 (may be repeated) In-Class Melodic Dictation 3-2: Introduction to Melodic Dictation Assignment Dictation 3-3Assignment Dictation 3-4 Melodic Dictation

UNIT 4 Intervals/Melodic Sequence Part I: Singing Singing Exercise 4-1 In-Class Rhythm Exercise and Error Detection 4-2 (may be repeated) Major Key Number Patterns: Introduction to the "Tritone" (Augmented 4th) Melodies 4-1 Part II: Dictation Interval Identification 4-1: Mixed Intervals In-Class Melodic Error Detection 4-2 Assignment Dictation 4-3 Assignment Dictation 4-4 Major Scale Number Pattern (Scale Degree) Identification Assignment Dictation 4-5

UNIT 5 Harmonies of the Major and Minor Scale Part I: Singing Singing Exercise 5-1: Triad Quality Singing Exercise Singing Exercise 5-2: Scale Degree Number Patterns Major Key Scale Degrees Singing Exercise 5-3: Minor Scale Degree Number Patterns Melodic Minor Key Scale Degrees Harmonic Key Scale Degrees Singing Exercise 5-4: Primary Triad Exercise Melodies 5-1: Triad Building: 3rds and 5ths Singing Exercise 5-5: Seventh Chord Quality Melodies 5-2: The Dominant 7th Part II: Dictation In-Class Dictation 5-1: Triad Quality Identification In-Class Dictation 5-2: 7th Chord Quality Identification Assignment Dictation 5-3: Triad Quality Identification Assignment Dictation 5-4: 7th Chord Quality Identification Assignment Dictation 5-5: Rhythm: Dots, Ties, Divisions, Subdivisions, and Rests Assignment Dictation 5-4: Melodic Error Detection

UNIT 6 Cadences Part I: Singing Preliminary Exercises Singing Exercise 6-1: Primary Triads Singing Exercise 6-1a: Triad Quality Singing Exercise 6-1b: Seventh Chord Quality Singing Exercise 6-2a: Major Scale Number Patterns Singing Exercise 6-2b: Melodic Minor Key Scale Degrees Melodies 6-1: Compound Meter, Cadences Melodies 6-2 Part II: Dictation In-Class Dictation 6-1: Triad and Seventh-Chord Quality In-Class Melodic Dictation 6-2: Compound Meter, Primary Triads, Cadences In-Class Dictation 6-3: Introduction to Harmonic Dictation: Cadences in Root Position In-Class Dictation 6-4 Assignment Dictation 6-5: Harmonic Dictation: Cadences in Root Position

PART THREE MELODIC PRINCIPLES

UNIT 7 Melodic Pitch and Rhythm Part I: Singing Motive and Seq…