Ear Training for Twentieth-Century Music Michael L. Friedmann

"Michael Friedmann's exemplary and innovative textbook will undoubtedly have a very significant impact on the teaching of twentieth-century music. I regard it as a major contribution to the field of music-theoretical pedagogy."?Allen Forte, Yale University

"Challenging and vastly rewarding. The particularly original, inventive exercises on trichords and tetrachords will go far towards helping students make the music their own."?David Lewin, Harvard University

"Michael Friedmann's Ear Training for Twentieth-Century Music is a skills text in every sense of the word; using non-tonal materials, students are asked to improvise at the keyboard, sing at sight, take dictation, memorize melodies by rote, and identify selected set classes by eye and ear. Friedmann's sequence of presentation, lucid explanations of set-theoretical concepts, and appendices of well-chosen examples from the classics of twentieth-century literature make these skills goals entirely attainable."?Elizabeth West Marvin, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester

"Systematic and imaginative, Ear Training for Twentieth-Century Music will provide a worthwhile challenge for the serious music student."?Gary Wittlich, Professor of Music Theory, Indiana University

"At last! A basic but far-reaching text for teaching Twentieth Century ear training that is commensurate with sophisticated accounts of post-tonal music. Students and instructors of theory, analysis and composition will benefit from this first-class introduction to hearing pitch-class relations in new music."?Robert Morris, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester

"This is a valuable book. Its primary purpose of developing ear-training is well served by a lucid writing style and by careful attention to intricate details. Equally significant, however, is the comprehensive explanation of set theory contained in the book. . . . I strongly recommend this book for use in college and university classes, whether the emphasis be ear training or analysis. . . . The book is a unique contribution to the literature, and its presence is welcome."?G. Larry Whatley, American Music Teacher

"A course of intellectual analyses and practical exercises, each complementing the other. . . . There is no doubt that the book will help advanced students of music to sharpen up their analysis of pitches, intervals and chords in that part of the twentieth century repertoire which depends heavily on exact pitches and durations of notes. It will, too, develop a memory for these two elements within a time continuum."?George Pratt, British Journal of Music

Winner of the 1992 Special Citation Award given by The Society for Music Theory

?A superb contribution to a seriously neglected area of musical study.  It has the potential, particularly in view of the clarity and sensitivity of the author?s writing style, to revolutionize the approach to teaching both twentieth-century music in general and twentieth-century music ear training in particular.??Deborah Stein, New England Conservatory of Music