Building Better Dictation Skills provides a phenomenal resource for teachers and students of aural skills. It covers important musical concepts in an easy-to-use format. Buonviri truly understands that by building better dictation skills, we are building better musicians, and he shows us how to accomplish this lofty and meaningful goal.
American Music Teacher
Dictation skills can clearly be ... Read moredeveloped by us all with good resources like this and with good teaching. I only wish I had been able to use such a book years ago.
Peter R. Webster, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University, Scholar in Residence, University of Southern California This is a well-crafted resource in which Dr. Buonviri treats the melodic dictation process like an art form. The carefully sequenced methodology presented in this book will assuredly equip musicians with the tools and strategies necessary to be proficient and successful.
Rollo A. Dilworth, professor of choral music education, Temple University This is a thoughtful, well-sequenced, easy-to-use book that I would have loved to have used when I was a student struggling with aural theory. Dr. Buonviri breaks complicated tasks down into their component parts and encourages the learner to keep trying and to love learning.
Andrew Paney, associate professor of music education, University of Mississippi Show Less