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INNEHALLSFORTECKNING IN HALT REGISTER

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Inledning . 6 Einleitung . 9 Introduction 13
Studieanvisningar . 7 Studienanweisungen . 10 Directions for Study. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 14
Absolut gehor . 8 Absolutes Gehor . 12 Absolute Pitch 15

Kapitel: Kapiteln: Chapters:


I Stor och Iiten sekund, ren kvart . 17 I Grosse und kleine Sekunde . 17 I Major and minor second.... 17
11 Ren kvint .•.•.•............. 25 11 Reine Quint . 25 11 Perfect fifth 25
III Stor och liten ters . 31 III Grosse und kleine Terz . 31 III Major and minor thirds. 31
IV Melodiexempel Iran litteraturen. VI Melodienbeispiele aus der Lite- IV Examples of melodies from the
(Tillampningsovningar pa kap. ratur. (Obungsstucke zu Kapitel repertoire. (Application exercises
I-Ill) . 40 I-Ill) . 40 for Chapters I-Ill) 40
V Tritonus ...•................ 49 V Tritonus . 49 V The Tritone 49
VI Liten sext . 56 VI Kleine Sext . 56 VI Minor sixth .•. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
VII Stor sext . 63 VII Grosse Sext . 63 VII Major sixth 63
VIII Melodiexempel Iran litteraturen. VIII Melodienbeispiele aus der Lite- VIII Examples of melodies from the
(Tlllampnlngsovningar pa kap. ratur, (Obungsstucke zu Kapitel repertoire. (Application exercises
V-VII) . 68 V-VII) . 68 for Chapter VIII) . . . . . . . . . . . .. 68
IX Liten septima . 81 IX Kleine Septime . 81 IX Minor seventh 81
X Stor septima . 87 X Grosse Septime . 87 X Major seventh ...•........... 87
XI Melodiexempel fran litteraturen. XI Melodienbeispiele aus der Lite- XI Examples of melodies from the
(Tillampnlngsovningar pa kap. ratur, (Obungsstucke zu Kapitel repertoire. (Application exercises
IX-X) . 92 IX-X) . 92 for Chapter IX-X) .... . . . • . . . 92
XII Interval! stcrre an oktaven. XII Interval!e grosser als die Oktave. XII Compound intervals. "Weit-
Vidmelodik . 105 Weitmelodik . 105 melodik" 105
INTRODUCTION.

The main object of aural training should be to develop musical have this perspective in order to be able to understand the struc-
sensitivity. The different exercises--sight-reading (sight-singing), ture of the material on which our method is to be based.
dictation etc., should not be regarded as an end in themselves We ask ourselves, therefore: Does the music so far composed
but as a means to attain this sensitivity. It is a concrete study tu in the 20th century contain any such logical structural principles
develop the power of obtaining a conscious and clear comprehen- which could serve as a basis for a method of training the ear?
sion 01 musical structures. This power of comprehension depends Hitherto the methods have been based on the major/minor
primaril), it is true, on a fast and accurate reading technique tonality with the triad as tonal basis. Is there any other equally
and on the proficiency acquired in the dictation exercises, but it clear tonal principle in 20th-century music, and any just as clearly
also includes emotional elements. It is important that we do not discernible basic tonal design? The answer to this, of course, is
lose sight of these elements in the training of the ear. The prof- "No"! The study material presented in this book. however, has
fessional musician should indeed be able to give a more detailed been built up on a number of tonal and melodic figures which
account of the constructice elements of the musical "gestus", in the author's opinion have played some part in avoiding the
than the listener, but the most essential thing for both of them is major/minor-tonal limitations in 20th-century music. (The 20th
to have a feeling for the nuances in the expression of the music. century is to be understood here as approximately "the first half
After all, a feeling for the nuances of the musical idiom probably of the 20th century". The sight reading problems connected with
means more than a mere technical command of its grammar. the most recent so-called radical music are not dealt with here.)
This book is addressed primarily to students of music, and deals These melodic figures have been grouped together, according to
in the first instance with the reading of 20th-century music. The the intervals they contain, in different chapters with an increas-
traditicnal aural training was based on the major/minor tonality, ing degree 01 difficulty. Each chapter may also be said to deal
and its obiect was to acquire :m aural command of the major/ with one more special interval. One of the author's main thesis,
minm-tcnal music. The methods applied in aural training have however, is that Freat accuracy in singing individual intervals is
thus heen dictated 11\ lIlt' musical material, and during this epoch. not always a guarantee 01 accuracy in reading atonal melodies;
it has been based on the laws of the tonal cadence. With the this is because most students still leel the interval with a major/
"collapse" 01 the mujcr/minor tonality, however. those concerned minor interpretation. which in turn can be ascribed to the fact
with aural training have been confronted with an entirelv new that irnrn childhood the factor that most actively intluences our
situation. The conventional aural training does not meet the ear and our instinct lor the hanuonic relation 01 the tones is still
requirements 01 20th-centuT) music. Indeed. it is quite natural the major/minor music.
that only a few attempts, it any. have been made in ear-training- From a point 01 view of sight reading training, therefore, the
techniques In connection with the music that has emerged aftei most important thing now is to practice combinations of intervals
the major/minor epoch. for it we postulate the truth that the that will break the bonds of the major/minor interpretation of
method is largely determined by the nature of the material each individual interval. It is clear that the individual interval
studied, it follows that we have to obtain some perspective of as an "atonal" ligure is of great importance in this training. The
this material before we can produce a sound method. We must student's command (visual and aural) of the theory of intervals
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in the absolute sense of the word, however, is here merely a pre- music to that for which it stands as a symbol-the sounding
i equiwte lor the turther study of what I would like to call "the music. the most abstract and intangible of the arts! To acquire
aural study of the musical patterns". proficiency in reading music demands a great deal of work, and
Reading music is a difficult art to master, and its mechanism this even more so alter the great revolutions that have occurred
is a very complicated process. Take, b} way of comparision, the in contemporary music, specially III the domain of tonality. This
difficult) a, chud has in learning to read by putting together book is an attempt to assemble material for this work. It is my
letters and syllables into lorms that are lingual symbols not only hope that it will also stimulate others to add to the material b)
of concrete things but also of abstract concepts, known or un- presenting new ideas and new publications!
known to the child. Still less clear is the relation of the written

DIRECTIONS FOR STUDY.

The contents of the chapters of this book are in principle built music. The teacher plays or sings the phrase with a few
up around the lollowing headings 'H( ng notes. The pupil analyses the wrong notes.
1. Presentation 01 the interval material to be used. (e) DICtatIOn. 1 he teacher gh es the name of the first note
2. Preparatory exercises. ,(possibly also the time), plays the phrase (several times, if
3. Melodies. required). The pupil ~ings the phrase (but not on the names
4 Chord series. ol the notes), and writes it down
There are also chapters containing; "Examples of Melodies from (f) ~lIIg or pld) the phrase dgam at a different pitch. This
the Repertoire" at four different stages in the consecutive chap- C'(PI crse I, ol special importance in the case of pupils with
ters. ciitlerent forms of absolute pitch. (See "Absolute Pitch" on
Some directions for the use of the material are ghen below p.!.'>.)
Needless to '><1) one should not Iirst 01 all work through each
preparatorv exercise from (d) to (0. lor in that case the dictation
Fi eparatoru ExeTCHe~. These consist of some ,30 short phrases exercise. tor instance \\ ould be r.ither too \\ ell prepared. Instead,
built up on the intervals in question. These phrases may be used the principle should be to go through all off the preparatory exer-
in the lollowing ways cises accordmp to one of them, t' g as in (a), and then "tart from
(a) The phrase is sung from the music the bef!lIInin!! ag.lin and pr.ictise them as in (d), (e) etc. There are
(b) The teacher give~ the first note and plays the phrase The enough phrase., and the} .n e often sulficlently alike to prevent
pupil sll1gs it on the names of the notes w ithout looking at their bell1g learned b) he.irt af ter pr,lCtbing them once.
the music and without accompaniment, Some ot the prep.u.itory exercises h.rve been written with black
(c) Play the phrase. The same as (b), except that the pupil notes on I} The idea is that the} are to be sung on the names of
repeats the phrase on his instrument. the notes lrom dillerent ~t<lrhllg pouus .md w uh ditlerent rhythms,
(d) Locate deviations lrom the notation. The pupil sees the e.g. according to the follo\\ing Iormulae
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feeling of major/minor tonality. With increased experience, the
n~J· ~ need for it will disappear.
'I he melodies h.we been composed by the author.

n· n n· Chord Series. The teelrna lor tone plays a very important part

rnrnrn in contemporary music. This applies both to the harmony and


colour of the tone. The most recent music, in particular in this

mmm respect, calls for a new approach to aural training.


The chord series given here may be used in the following
ways:
a) Chord dictation. The pupil does not see the music. The
M elodies. The melodies are to be sung b) the pupil on a suit- teacher plays the first note, and then plays each chord, say,
able vowel. The teacher should give them as home-work, which twice, at an interval of approx. 5 seconds. The pupil writes
is to be supervised. It goes without saying that they should not be dew n the notes 01 the chord. w hi eh are then checked.
practised with the aid of an instrument, but on the other hand b) The pupil sees the music. He plays the chcrds one by one.
the pupil may check up occasionally on a well-tuned piano. Creat While the chord is still sounding he sings the name 01 a
importance is attached to the reading and understanding of the certain note in the sounding chord. He checks up whether
melodic ligures and their organic context in the melodic pro- it is correct.
gression. See the comments on Melody No. 1, Chap. I, (p, 22).
In controlling the pi.pil's singing the teacher should distinguish Examples of Melodies from the Repertoire. These examples
clearly between faults due to uncertainty regarding the interval lrom the Repertoire can be used in the same wa) as in the
as such, and those due to faulty intonation. Needless to say both preparatory exercises and melodies. Man} of them are impossible
of these laults have to be dealt with. Regarding the intonation to sil1g because of their compass and pitch. The exercises under
If one wants the final note of the melodies to agree with the "Preparatory Exercises". p.14, gh e an idea of how these examples
corresponding note on a wel!-tuned "clavier", one has to sing in can be used. If possible the teacher should give the pupil an idea
a "well-tempered" tone of voice. 01 the entire compositlonal situation in which the example origi-
From the point of view of method there is no cause for great nally occurs. The chapters containing examples have therefore
anxiety because of a pupil's possible tendency to read major/minor been prefaced \\ ith <1 list of the sources and the pages on which
cells in to the melodies, or to feel them. If the pupils will only the} occur in the publications available. The examples have been
accustom themselves to the frequent "mutations" between these taken from a limited selection of 20th-centur} classics and from
cells, it will promote their routine music-reuding in spite of this the works of some Swedish composers.

ABSOLlJTE PITCH AND RE;\DING THE MELODY

Special problems are encountered in connection with absolute which notes are being sung or played on the piano or some other
pitch. Pupils with active absolute pitch generally have little diffi- instrument, but cannot with equal accuracy sing the written or
culty in training the ear as far as melody and harmony are con- heard note, often find themselves in a difficult "in-between" posi-
cerned. Those with passive absolute pitch, i.e. those who can hear tion when it comes to reading atonal music. As long as the exet-
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cises are limited to major/minor melodies, this passive absolute Those who can boast of having so-called, absolute pitch are thus
pitch may function perfectly, since absolute pitch is largely a form often deficient in atonal melody-reading. They have difficulty
01 memory, and in this case the objects to be remembered in reading the melodic patterns, apart from separate intervals,
probably consist of both absolute note pitches and the major/rni- These same pupils, however, may often react with great accurac)
nor tonality's supply of fonuulae. It is clear, however, that pupils to wrong notes in an atonal example. It is very important that
with this passive form of absolute pitch only rarely give any this type of pupil should consciously practise producing the inter-
thought to the interval they are singing, and still less do they val combinations and melodic designs that are of fundamental
think of the tonal function of that interval in the musical con- importance in this book. In doing 50 they should think more of
text. When they are then confronted with the exercises in melody- the intervals and their melodic function than of the actual
reading in which the major/minor tonal functions have been names of the notes. For these pupils the exercises on transposi-
disrupted and weakened, it is often found that their memory for tion sung according to their own comprehension of the melodic
the pitch of notes (on the keyboard) is of little avail, and in this design, and not on the names of the notes, are of special import-
situation their insufficient knowledge of intervals is also revealed. ance. See p. 14, exercise (e) and (f)!

RHYTHM

This book does not contain any special studies in rhythm. In in the reading and performance of rhythm students are referred
mallY 01 the melodies and examples quoted from the repertoire, to [ergen jersild's "Laerebog i Rytmelasning" (Text-book on the
however, the rhythm is fairly complicated. It is important that Reading of Rhythm), Copenhagen, 1962.)
this rhythm should be carefully observed. For systematic training

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KAPITEL VIII. K-\PITEL \'I11 CHAPTER VIII.
Melodi-exempel Iran Iitteraturen Melodienbeispiele aus der Literatur. Examples of Melodies from the Repertoire.
(Tillampningsovningar till kap. V-VII. (Ubungsstucke zu Kapitel V-VII (Application exercises for Chapters V-VII.
Se studieanv sid 8). Siehe Studienanweisungen Seite in. See directions for study, page 15).

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