Ear Training for Twentieth-Century Music

by Michael L. Friedman, Michael L. Friedmann, Assoc. Prof. Michael L. Friedmann

Book Overview

How can the musician's ear penetrate the complexities and theoretical abstractions of the twentieth-century music? This book offers a solution: it enables the student to perceive essential musical connections at the core of modern music by identifying and drilling the distinctive structures and processes of the twentieth century's greatest composers. Michael L. Friedmann has developed and successfully tested a method that combines theory and exercises...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300045379
• ISBN13: 9780300045376
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

De-mystify 20th Century classical melodies, harmonies, and structures with this method.

This type of training should be required for every music program in the country, in my opinion. You will be able to transpose, invert, and deconstruct post-tonal melodies with MUCH greater ease after going through this practice method. For me, it was a revelation in hearing.