Aural Training

Aural training

• Aural Training for Groups This is a small handbook prepared whilst organising the Aural Training Programme at St Mary's Music School
• Sol-fa chart showing the seven church modes in PDF format
  The semitones are bracketed
• Kodaly Music Education Institute of Australia
  A clear and succinct exposition. Go to ‘Downloadable Resources’ for classroom charts of rhythm syllables, chromatic alterations and Curwen hand signs, as well as lesson plans etc.
• Tone rows for atonal dictation in PDF format
• Download the Sibelius score of the above tone rows for self dictation here, if you have the Sibelius software. The speed is set to 10 notes per minute, but you can change this yourself
• The Matrix
  A very useful tone row generator and converter by Dan Cavanagh

Below is a download of two charts, in PDF format, to help with the AB Grade 8 Aural chord recognition tests. The charts show the chords possible over the bass notes on each degree of the scale. The pupil should learn to hear (and mentally sing - in sol-fa if possible) the bass notes of the progression played in the test

• Charts showing the chords possible in the Grade 8 chord recognition tests