ear-training

A reader inquired about how he could use the GNU Solfege freeware ear-training program to help acquire foundational skills required to learn Gregorian Chant.

"Learning Gregorian chant with the help of GNU Solfege - interval recognition" bls 2008

A reader inquired about how he could use the GNU Solfege freeware ear-training program to help acquire foundational skills required to learn Gregorian Chant.

Archive 2008-05-01 bls 2008

Jaques-Dalcroze naturally uses his own methods of ear-training, which are extremely successful, but he does not lay stress on them; he does, however, emphasize the need of such training, whatever the method, as shall give the pupil an accurate sense of pitch, both absolute and relative, and a feeling for tonality.

The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

Here, too, Jaques-Dalcroze has his own system, with which he obtains results often remarkable, but, as in the case of the ear-training, this is a detail not peculiar to the method as

The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

The solfège lessons are chiefly for ear-training and practical harmony.

The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

Let him work indefatigably at ear-training, and particularly at harmonic ear training, so that notes and tones may become closely associated in his mind, the printed page then giving him auditory rather than merely visual imagery; in other words, let him school himself to make the printed page convey to his mind the actual sounds of the music.

Essentials in Conducting Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928

This is due to the great neglect of the study of ear-training in early musical education.

Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression James Francis Cooke 1917

For this reason all children should have the advantage of a course in ear-training.

Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression James Francis Cooke 1917

In fact, ear-training and harmony lead to great economy of time.

Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression James Francis Cooke 1917

By ear-training I mean the differentiation of sounds -- articulate, inarticulate, and musical -- fixing the child's attention and causing it to _imitate_.

Mankind in the Making 1906