This book is designed for beginning Aural Skills (Ear Training and Sight Singing) courses required of freshmen music majors; these courses are usually taken concurrently with the beginning Music Theory sequence. The course introduces students to the underlying grammar and syntax of musical structure and prepares them to perceive that structure with both the ear and the eye. This text introducesbasic concepts in a carefully thought out and well-paced systematic manner. It provides abundant examples for practice in rhythmic and melodic reading, dictation, audation, musical memory, and error detection.