Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / National Association for Music Education (NAfME)
Pages: 156
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Trim: 7 x 10
978-1-4758-1392-0 • Paperback /CD-Audio • August 2015 • $42.00 • (£35.00)
978-1-4758-1393-7 • eBook • August 2015 • $39.50 • (£30.00)
Nathan O. Buonviri is an Assistant Professor of Music Education at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. He has published in the top research journals in his field, and has presented papers and workshops across the United States and around the world on aural skills training, percussion pedagogy, and instrumental improvisation.
Part I. Attention Direction
Chapter 1. Mental Preparation
Chapter 2. The Big Picture
Chapter 3. Ignoring Extraneous Information
Part II. Task Prioritization
Chapter 4. Pitch and Rhythm
Chapter 5. Chronological Decisions
Chapter 6. Changing Priorities
Part III. Skills Coordination
Chapter 7. Incorporating Musical Skills
Chapter 8. Notation Strategies
Chapter 9. Musical Proofreading
Chapter 10. Polishing Your Personal Approach
Appendix A. Answer Key
Appendix B. Brief Description of the Research Base
Glossary
Building Better Dictation Skills provides a phenomenal resource for teachers and students of aural skills. It covers important musical concepts in an easy-to-use format. Buonviri truly understands that by building better dictation skills, we are building better musicians, and he shows us how to accomplish this lofty and meaningful goal.
— American Music Teacher
Dictation skills can clearly be developed by us all with good resources like this and with good teaching. I only wish I had been able to use such a book years ago.
— Peter R. Webster, Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California
This is a well-crafted resource in which Dr. Buonviri treats the melodic dictation process like an art form. The carefully sequenced methodology presented in this book will assuredly equip musicians with the tools and strategies necessary to be proficient and successful.
— Rollo A. Dilworth, professor of choral music education, Temple University
This is a thoughtful, well-sequenced, easy-to-use book that I would have loved to have used when I was a student struggling with aural theory. Dr. Buonviri breaks complicated tasks down into their component parts and encourages the learner to keep trying and to love learning.
— Andrew Paney, associate professor of music education, University of Mississippi