Introduction

Introduction

Student Directions

How to create exercises

Exercises:

Wes Golightly

Judson Bracey

Music Virtual Center

This project consists of two sets of exercises for melodic dictation. Those designed by Wes Golightly are intended for first-year theory students and consist entirely of monophonic melodies. Those designed by Judson Bracey are designed for harmonic dictation, exercises normally encountered by second year theory students.

The objective of these exercises is to give students practice in melodic dictation with instructor-designed examples, while also giving them experience using Finale music notation software.

The files are to be used two at a time: a worksheet file ("a") to be customized by the student and submitted electronically or in hard copy to the instructor, and a playback file ("b") to be minimized and activated for playing the example to be notated by the student.

Overview: The student opens a worksheet file, then opens a playback file. After customizing the worksheet file by adding his name, the student uses the playback controls to listen to the playback file, one exercise at a time. When an exercise is completed, the student may check his answer by playing back the example on the worksheet file. Student anwers may be printed out or else emailed to the instructor.

Option: Coda Music, developers of Finale software, now offers a free, downloadable program called Finale Notepad, which will play these files and may be used to complete them. I highly recommend Finale Notepad for very simple computer notation.

Of course, it is ideal for the student to use the full version of Finale so he will become more familiar with that professional tool.