The following Levels accompany the harmonic dictation exercises on CD as compiled by Professors Mancini and Wick at Southern Methodist University. They are available for download and printing for students enrolled at SMU. Click on the Level to open an Adobe PDF file for viewing and printing. If you need Adobe Acrobat, click here.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are listening to soundfiles on a laptop computer or system with small, non-music quality speakers, you may have great difficulty hearing low/bass parts due to the limited speaker range of those systems!!! Use high quality headphones to hear all parts equally!
Each level also includes all preceding chords
LEVEL 1 - I, V, and V7. (10 examples click here for the audio files)
LEVEL 2 - I6, V6, and viio6. (18 examples click here for the audio files)
LEVEL 3 - Dominant Preparations and Cadential Six-Four. (31 examples click here for the audio files)
LEVEL 4 - Inversions of V7. (27 examples click here for the audio files)
LEVEL 5 - ii7, vi7, and IV7. (12 examples click here for the audio files)
LEVEL 6 - iių7. (9 examples click here for the audio files)
LEVEL 7 - Mediant and Subtonic Chords. (16 examples click here for the audio files)
LEVEL 8 - Noncadential Six-Four Chords. (9 examples click here for the audio files)
LEVEL 9 - Borrowed Chords. (9 examples click here for the audio files)
LEVEL 10 - Leading-Tone Seventh Chords. (13 examples click here for the audio files)
LEVEL 11 - Secondary Dominant and Leading-Tone Chords. Other parameters as above. (15 examples click here for the audio files)
LEVEL 12 - Tonicizations of the Dominant and Relative Major. (14 examples click here for the audio files)
LEVEL 13 - All Secondary Dominant and Leading-Tone Chords. (19 examples click here for the audio files)
LEVEL 14 - Tonicizations Other than the Dominant and Relative Major. (16 examples click here for the audio files)
LEVEL 15 - Ninth, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Chords. (10 examples click here for the audio files)
LEVEL 16 - The Neapolitan Chord. (10 examples click here for the audio files)
LEVEL 17 - Augmented Sixth Chords. (10 examples click here for the audio files)
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