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Ear Training
A Technique for Listening
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Ear Training
A Technique for Listening
Seventh Edition, Revised
Bruce Benward
University of Wisconsin
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J. Timothy Kolosick
University of Arizona
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Contents
Preface x Harmony 2E Chord Quality Identification:
Major, Minor, and Diminished Triads 27
About the Authors xii Harmony 2F Triad Factors in the Soprano
andBass 28
Unit 1 Rhythm 2A Rhythmic Dictation: Duple
and Triple Subdivisions of the Beat 28
Melody 1A Melodic Dictation: Scalewise Transcription 2 29
(Conjunct Diatonic) Melodies 1
Melody 1B Mode Identification: Major Unit 3
and Harmonic Minor Scales 3
Melody 1C Scale Degree Identification: Melody 3A Melodic Dictation: Melodies
Single Notes 3 Using m2, M2, m3, M3, P4, P5 31
Melody 1D Intervals: m2, M2, m3, M3 4 Melody 3B Error Detection: Scalewise
Melody 1E Models and Embellishments: Melodies with Errors 32
Short Melodic Structures 5 Melody 3C Scale Degree Identification:
Harmony 1A Chord Function Identification: Three Notes 33
I and V Triads 6 Melody 3D Interval Review: m2, M2, m3,
Harmony 1B Chords in Music Literature: M3, P4, P5 34
I and V Triads 8 Melody 3E Models and Embellishments:
Harmony 1C Harmonic Rhythm 9 Simple Melodic Structures 35
Harmony 1D Triad Position Identification: Harmony 3A Chord Function Identification:
Major and Minor Triads 11 I, ii, and V Triads 35
Harmony 1E Chord Quality Identification: Harmony 3B Chords in Music Literature:
Major and Minor Triads 12 I, ii, and V Triads 37
Harmony 1F Triad Factors in the Soprano 12 Harmony 3C Cadence Identification:
Rhythm 1A Rhythmic Dictation: Rhythm Cadence Types 38
Including Half-Beat Values 13 Harmony 3D Harmonic Dictation: I(i),
Transcription 1 14 IV(iv), and V Triads in Four-Part Phrases 39
Harmony 3E Chord Quality Identification:
Unit 2 Writing Major, Minor, Diminished, and
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Introduction 24 Melody 4D New Intervals: m6, M6 49
Harmony 2D Triad Position Identification: Melody 4E Models and Embellishments:
Major and Minor Triads 26 5–6 Patterns in Two Voices 50
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Harmony 4A Chord Function Identification: Harmony 6A Chord Function Identification:
I, ii, IV, and V Triads 52 I, ii, IV, V, and vi Triads 85
Harmony 4B Chords in Music Literature: Harmony 6B Chords in Music Literature:
I, ii, IV, and V Triads 53 Emphasis on ii, IV, and vi 86
Harmony 4C Nonharmonic Tones: Harmony 6C Nonharmonic Tones:
Two-Voice Examples 54 Four-Voice Examples 87
Harmony 4D Harmonic Dictation: I(i), ii, Harmony 6D Harmonic Dictation: The I(i),
IV(iv), and V Triads in Chorale Phrases 56 ii(ii°), IV(iv), and V Triads in Chorale
Harmony 4E Chord Quality Identification: Phrases 88
Major, Minor, Diminished, and Augmented Harmony 6E Error Detection: Triads in
Triads 57 Four Parts 89
Rhythm 4A Rhythmic Dictation: Half-Beat Rhythm 6A Rhythmic Dictation:
Values in Syncopation 58 Quarter-Beat Values 90
Rhythm 4B Error Detection: Half-Beat Rhythm 6B Error Detection: Triplet
Values in Syncopation 59 Figures 91
Transcription 4 60 Transcription 6 92
Unit 5 Unit 7
Melody 5A Melodic Dictation: Melodies Melody 7A Melodic Dictation: Two-Phrase
Outlining the I, IV, V (and vii°6) Triads 63 Melodies 95
Melody 5B Error Detection: Excerpts Melody 7B Error Detection: Handel
from Music Literature 64 Melodies 96
Melody 5C Melodic Figure Identification: Melody 7C Melodic Figure Identification:
Sequence and Rhythmic Repetition 66 Melodic Devices 98
Melody 5D New Interval: The Tritone 67 Melody 7D Intervals: All Diatonic
Melody 5E Models and Embellishments: Intervals 98
Descending 6ths in Two Voices 67 Melody 7E Models and Embellishments:
Harmony 5A Chord Function Identification: Cadence Formulas in Two Voices 99
I(i), ii(ii°), IV(iv), and V Triads and Harmony 7A Chord Function
Inversions 69 Identification: I(i), ii(ii°), iii(III, III+),
Harmony 5B Chords in Music Literature: IV(iv), V, and vi(VI) Triads 100
I(i), ii(ii°), IV(iv), and V Triads 70 Harmony 7B Chords in Music Literature:
Harmony 5C Harmonic Rhythm and Emphasis on iii and vi 102
Nonharmonic Tones 71 Harmony 7C Harmonic Rhythm and
Harmony 5D Harmonic Dictation: I(i), ii, Harmonic Analysis: I, ii, IV, V, and vi
IV(iv), and V Triads in Chorale Phrases 72 Triads 103
Harmony 5E Error Detection: Single Harmony 7D Harmonic Dictation: I(i),
Triads in Four Parts 73 ii(ii°), IV(iv), V, and vi(VI) Triads in
Rhythm 5A Rhythmic Dictation: Chorale Phrases 103
Introduction to Quarter-Beat Values 74 Harmony 7E Error Detection: Triads in
Rhythm 5B Error Detection: Quarter-Beat Four Parts 105
Values 75 Rhythm 7A Rhythmic Dictation:
Transcription 5 76 Quarter-Beat Values 105
Rhythm 7B Rhythmic Dictation: Beat
Unit 6 Units Divided into Triplets 107
Transcription 7 108
Melody 6A Melodic Dictation: Intervals
of a 7th 79 Unit 8
Melody 6B Error Detection: Schubert
Melodies 80 Melody 8A Melodic Dictation: Melodies
Melody 6C Melodic Figure Identification: with Larger Leaps 111
Sequence, False Sequence, and Melody 8B Error Detection: Franck
Rhythmic Repetition 82 Melodies 112
Melody 6D New Intervals: m7 and M7 83 Melody 8C Harmonic Rhythm, Harmonic
Melody 6E Models and Embellishments: Analysis, Sequences, Phrase
7–3 Patterns in Two Voices 84 Relationships, and Cadences 113
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Melody 8D Intervals: All Diatonic Melody 10E Models and Embellishments:
Intervals 116 7th-Chord Patterns in Three Voices 150
Melody 8E Models and Embellishments: Harmony 10A Chord Function
5–6 Patterns in Three Voices 117 Identification: Dominant 7th Chords 151
Harmony 8A Chord Function Identification: Harmony 10B Chords in Music Literature:
Diatonic Triads (Major Mode) 118 Dominant 7th Chords (All Inversions) 152
Harmony 8B Chords in Music Literature: Harmony 10C Nonharmonic Tones: Bach
All Triads 120 Chorales (2) 153
Harmony 8C Nonharmonic Tones: Bach Harmony 10D Harmonic Dictation: The
Chorales (1) 120 Dominant 7th Chord in Chorale Phrases 155
Harmony 8D Harmonic Dictation: I(i), ii, Harmony 10E Error Detection: Triads or
IV(iv), V, vi(VI), and vii°Triads in Chorale Dominant 7th Chords 156
Phrases 122 Rhythm 10A Rhythmic Dictation: Triple
Harmony 8E Error Detection: Triads in and Triplet Subdivisions 157
Four Parts 123 Rhythm 10B Rhythmic Dictation:
Rhythm 8A Rhythmic Dictation: Two-Voice Rhythms 158
Quarter-Beat Values 124 Transcription 10 158
Rhythm 8B Error Detection:
Quarter-Beat Values 125 Unit 11
Transcription 8 126
Melody 11A Melodic Dictation: Short
Unit 9 Melodies That Modulate to Closely
Related Keys 161
Melody 9A Melodic Dictation: Short Melody 11B Error Detection: Excerpts
Melodies from Music Literature 129 from Music Literature 162
Melody 9B Error Detection: Bach Melody 11C Phrase Relationships and
Melodies 130 Cadences 164
Melody 9C Melodic Dictation: Two-Part Melody 11D Intervals: All Intervals Played
Dictation 131 Harmonically 165
Melody 9D Intervals: Harmonic Intervals Melody 11E Models and Embellishments:
of the m3, Tritone, P5, m6, M6, and m7 133 Chord Progression with Melodic
Melody 9E Models and Embellishments: Embellishments 166
Descending First-Inversion Triads 134 Harmony 11A Chord Function
Harmony 9A Chord Function Identification: vii°7(Diminished
Identification: Six-Four Chords 135 7th Chord) 167
Harmony 9B Chords in Music Literature: Harmony 11B Chords in Music Literature:
Six-Four Chords 137 vii°7(Diminished 7th Chord) 169
Harmony 9C Harmonic Rhythm and Harmony 11C Aural Analysis: Aspects of
Harmonic Analysis of Folk Melodies 138 Two-Phrase Excerpts 170
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Melody 10D Intervals: All Intervals Played Melody 12B Error Detection: Two-Voice
Harmonically 149 Compositions 180
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Melody 12C Binary, Rounded Binary, Unit 14
and Three-Part Form 182
Melody 14A Melodic Dictation:
Melody 12D Interval Dictation: Two
Modulation in Two-Phrase Melodies 217
Intervals in Succession 184
Melody 14B Error Detection: Excerpts
Melody 12E Models and Embellishments:
from Music Literature 218
I-V-I Progression with Melodic
Melody 14C Mode Identification: Dorian,
Embellishments 184
Phrygian, Lydian, and Mixolydian Modes 220
Harmony 12A Chord Function
Melody 14D Interval Dictation: Three
Identification: Nondominant
Intervals in Succession 221
7th Chords 185
Melody 14E Models and Embellishments:
Harmony 12B Chords in Music Literature:
I-V-I Progression with Chromatic Melodic
Nondominant 7th Chords 187
Embellishments 221
Harmony 12C Aural Analysis: Harmonic
Harmony 14A Chord Function
and Melodic Relationships in Musical
Identification: Secondary
Periods from Haydn Sonatas 188
Dominants of IV(iv) and vi(VI) 222
Harmony 12D Harmonic Dictation:
Harmony 14B Chords in Music Literature:
Modulations to Closely Related Keys 189
Secondary Dominants and Leading-Tone
Harmony 12E Chord Quality
Chords of iii and IV 224
Identification: MM, Mm, mm, dm,
Harmony 14C Aural Analysis: Four-Phrase
and dd 7th Chords 190
Excerpt from a Beethoven Piano Sonata 224
Rhythm 12A Rhythmic Dictation:
Harmony 14D Harmonic Dictation:
Eighth-Beat Values 191
Chorale Phrases Containing Secondary
Rhythm 12B Error Detection:
Dominants 225
Eighth-Beat Values 193
Harmony 14E Error Detection: Triads
Transcription 12 193
and 7th Chords 227
Rhythm 14A Rhythmic Dictation: Subtriplet
Unit 13
in Simple and Compound Meter 228
Rhythm 14B Error Detection: Subtriplet
Melody 13A Melodic Dictation:
in Simple and Compound Meter 229
Modulation in Two-Phrase Periods 197
Transcription 14 230
Melody 13B Error Detection: Brahms
Melodies 199
Melody 13C Binary, Rounded Binary, Unit 15
and Three-Part Form 201
Melody 13D Interval Dictation: Two and Melody 15A Melodic Dictation:
Three Intervals in Succession 203 Nondiatonic Tones 233
Melody 13E Models and Embellishments: Melody 15B Error Detection: Five-Note
I-V-I Progression with Diatonic Melodic Melodic Figures 234
Embellishments 204 Melody 15C Mode Identification: Dorian,
Harmony 13A Chord Function Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian,
Identification: Secondary Dominants and Aeolian Modes 235
of V and ii 205 Melody 15D Interval Dictation: Adding
Harmony 13B Chords in Music Proper Accidentals to Modal Melodies 236
Literature: Secondary Dominants Melody 15E Models and Embellishments:
of ii, IV, and V 206 Harmonic Structure with Melodic and
Harmony 13C Aural Analysis: Key, Harmonic Embellishments 237
Phrase, and Cadence Relationships Harmony 15A Chord Function
in Musical Excerpts 207 Identification: All Secondary Dominants 238
Harmony 13D Harmonic Dictation: Harmony 15B Chords in Music Literature:
Chorale Phrases Containing 7th Chords 209 All Secondary Dominants and Leading-
Harmony 13E Error Detection: Triads Tone Chords 239
and 7th Chords 210 Harmony 15C Aural Analysis: Phrase,
Rhythm 13A Rhythmic Dictation: Key, Cadence, and Harmonic
Introduction to the Supertriplet 211 Relationships in a Five-Phrase Excerpt
Rhythm 13B Error Detection: from a Beethoven Piano Sonata 240
Eighth-Beat Values 212 Harmony 15D Harmonic Dictation:
Transcription 13 213 Modulation in Chorale Phrases 241
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Harmony 15E Error Detection: Triads and Harmony 16A Chord Function
7th Chords 242 Identification: German and French
Harmony 15F Identifying Modulations Augmented 6th Chords and the
to Closely Related and Foreign Keys 243 Neapolitan 6th Chord 255
Rhythm 15A Rhythmic Dictation: More Harmony 16B Chords in Music Literature:
Difficult Rhythms 244 Neapolitan 6th Chords and Augmented
Rhythm 15B Error Detection: More 6th Chords 256
Difficult Rhythmic Errors 245 Harmony 16C Aural Analysis: Binary,
Transcription 15 246 Rounded Binary, and Three-Part Forms 257
Harmony 16D Harmonic Dictation:
Chorale Phrases Containing Neapolitan
Unit 16
6th and Augmented 6th Chords 259
Melody 16A Melodic Dictation: Harmony 16E Error Detection: Triads
Nondiatonic Tones 249 and 7th Chords 261
Melody 16B Error Detection: Short Melodic Rhythm 16A Rhythmic Dictation:
Segments Based on Intervals 250 Changing Meters 261
Melody 16C Melodic Dictation: Typical Rhythm 16B Error Detection: Review 262
Blues Figures 251 Transcription 16 264
Melody 16D Interval Dictation: Two-Voice
Modal Compositions 252 Glossary 267
Melody 16E Models and Embellishments:
Harmonic Structure with Melodic and Transcription Table of Contents 271
Harmonic Embellishments 253
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