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abstract

i am writing to correct an omission from my article "absolute pitch perception and the pedagogy of relative pitch," published in the most recent issue of journal of music theory pedagogy (vol. 21, 2007). among the strategies i suggested for teaching relative-pitch skills to students with absolute pitch were (1) the use of scale-degree and roman-numeral singing and dictation without staff notation or key specified, and (2) the use of dictation excerpts drawn from music literature (for the variety of timbres and textures). i discussed these strategies with reference to several sight-singing and dictation textbooks: wittlich and humphries (1974), yasui and trubitt (1989), karpinski (2000, 2007), and phillips et al. (2005).

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