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Reddit mentions of The Musician's Guide to Aural Skills: Sight-Singing, Rhythm-Reading, Improvisation, and Keyboard Skills (Second Edition) (Vol. 1)
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Height | 11 Inches |
Length | 9.3 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | August 2011 |
Weight | 2.38981092008 Pounds |
Width | 1.1 Inches |
I'm leaving out a lot of foundational material of course, and so far we're only talking about root position chords. But yes, this is a simplified yet expandable way of looking at four-part writing.
But you're always going to run into people who have problems with any system. Complaints I can see for the above approach:
And there are other complaints that are usually lobbed at music theory curricula or music theory as a field generally, but I won't enumerate them here. What I'm presenting here is a form of figured bass pedagogy, which students are notoriously (and wrongly, if you ask this theorist) resistant to.
Keyboard harmony classes are not as common as they once were, for various reasons. Joel Phillips (co-author of The Musician's Guide to Aural Skills) teaches theory and musicianship with a strong attachment to keyboard skills and technique, but I don't know of other curricula that are structured this way. I'm sure they're out there.