Aural skills: Interactive studies

by Mario Arenas Navarrete

Overview

The purpose of this book is to contribute to the acquisition of competencies in auditory learning and musical literacy. In didactic terms, it discusses the theoretical concepts of Western music tradition and contextualizes them through exercises and miniatures. The methodology emphasizes the behavior of the sound flow. Through its practice, complemented with technical exercises and dictations, it hopes to facilitate the analysis, memorization, and recognition of rhythms, metrical feet, intervals, harmonic figurations, scales, and modal exchanges, among other subjects, to be able to write with conventional signs of western music, what is heard in rhythmic, melodic and harmonic terms.
The book aims to avoid imposing instructional limitations that are often found in written content and expects them to emerge from the reflections produced by what the scores allow: the goal is to systematically organize the acoustic transformation of reality through musical phenomena using musical signs accepted by the academy...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798892045773
Publisher:	BARKER PUBLISHING
Publication date:	02/02/2024
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

Was born in Quillota, Chile. He is a composer and doctor of Educational Sciences with a specialization in Intercultural Education from the University of Santiago, and he holds a Master’s degree in Musical Composition from the University of Chile. He also completed a Composition and Electronic Music postgraduate program from the Academy of Music in Krakow, Poland. In addition, he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education, focusing on Rhythm, Auditive Rhythm, Solfeggio, and Harmony from the
University of Chile.
He has served as Director of the Music Department at Universidad de La Serena for three terms while also being a full-time associate professor. He has given courses and conferences in Chile (Santiago, Antofagasta, Copiapó, Coquimbo, and La Serena) through the Ministry of Education and in Argentina at the Universidad Nacional de Lanús. In Mexico, he has given master lectures at two international congresses at the
Centro de Investigaciones Pedagógicas de Sonora, and later, he was hired by CRESUR in Chiapas, in Guadalajara, and at the University of Quintana Roo. He taught intensive onemonth courses for teachers in different countries through the Interamerican Institute of Music Education, which is dependent on the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile and the Organization of American States (OAS), two at the Conservatory of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia, four, at the Higher Institute of Education (ISE) of Asuncion, Paraguay, eight, between the Conservatory of Quito and the Higher Institute of Education “Luis
Ulpiano de La Torre” of Cotacachi; three, at the University of Nariño, Pasto, Colombia. At the UCR of Costa Rica, he gave a conference, and at the National University of Heredia, he gave two intensive courses for teachers of Music Education; two at the Palace of Fine Arts of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and gave a workshop at the University of Missouri, United States. At the same time, he participated in the technology and music education round table of the international ISME held in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain,
and at the University of Valencia, where he has given lectures and conducted research and teaching. He is co-author of the software Punto y Tono and author of the sound monument Imágenes Eólicas del Elqui in the Fourth Region of Coquimbo, Chile.
He is the author of symphonic and electroacoustic works and has been a jury of numerous composition contests.