TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tacka, Philip
TI  - Sound Thinking: Music for Sight Singing and Ear Training
SN  - 978-0-913932-56-8
U1  - 781.424 23
PY  - 1991///
CY  - U.S.A.
PB  - Boosey & Hawkes
N1  - Part I Expanding the Tonal Repertoire

The Single Eighth Note and Its Use in American Folk Songs
Teaching Syncopation
Teaching Dotted Eighth and Sixteenth Combinations
Teaching high Do
Pentatonic Scales
The Diatonic Scale
Teaching Fa
Do Pentachord and Do Hexachord
Introducing the Flat
Teaching Ti
Introducing the Sharp Sign
Teaching T and Z
Altered Notes and Forms of the Minor Scale
Interval Practice 
Part II Upper Level Concepts and Ear Training

Advanced Rhythmic Concepts
Introducing 4/4, 3/2 and 4/2 Meter
Changing Meter
Eighth and Sixteenth Notes as the Beat
Compound Time Signatures
Asymmetric Meters (7/8, 5/8, 5/4)
Introduction to the Modes
Musicianship Training for Older Beginners
Musical Units
Development of Musical Memory
Sight-Singing and Interval Practice
Dictation
Part Singing
Musical Units for the Older Beginner 
Part III Other Musical Skills

The Development of Harmonic Hearing
The Teaching of Tonic, Subdominant and Dominant Chord Functions
Triads and Their Functions
Harmony and Form
Introducing Typical Harmonic Progressions
Modulation
Listening
Improvisation and Composition
Improvisation
Composition Using Twentieth Century Technique
Music Literature for Children’s Choir
Appendix: Index of Songs and Chants
ER  -