Course Schedule (very approximate)
Class Notes (Model Progression Sheets, etc.)
About this Course (Quicktime movie of lecture notes -- automatic)
About this Course (Quicktime movie of lecture notes -- click to advance slide)
The following harmonic dictation program requires some form of MIDI on your system (Quicktime should work). It works well with Internet Explorer or FireFox. Timbres sometime get stuck (won't change) in Safari. Please be aware that you will be asked to download Shockwave player from Macromedia, and Sequence Xtra (from SourceForce Inc) in order for the program to work.
Use the following program to practice hearing intervals. In addition to hearing tonal realations (using movable do), you need to learn to hear intervals in the abstract, outside of the "tonal" context.
Melodic Dictation Practice
Use the following for Melodic Dictation Practice. Listen to each tune until you can sing it using Movable Do Solfege, then write it down. The answers are given, but don't look until you have completed each exercise.
Practice Dictation Set 2 <<< NEW!
PRACTICE EXAM (for FINAL DICTATION EXAM)
The following are practice problems for the most difficult portion of the final exam -- including modulation, neapolitans, and longer problems that can include all materials that we have studied. The practice exams also contains links to answers to each problem for you to study. Version 1 is the problems we did in class last week, and version 2 contains similar problems. The exam will also include short problems in each of the diatonic categories that we have studied plus one melodic dictation problem similar to ones we did earlier this semester, and on many homework assignments. You can practice the short problems most effectively using the harmonic dictation program that is online (see above). For melodic dictation use the exercises in Practice Dictation Set 1 and 2 (above). Follow the link below to practice modulations to all closely related keys in Major and minor.
Longer practice problems:
Version 3 (this version has three longer problems)