Campaign for the Removal of Aural Perfidiousness.



I'm in!! Anyone else!?

yes me to

I'll join

Just the removal of the singing bit

No..all of it"!!!

what is aural perfidsousness?

I'd be ok ish with the rest.... I think... It's just singing which features a lot...

Betraying me *sobs*

Take the initials of the full title!

LOL
and another reading is the campaign for the removal of AP which I couldn't support!!

Campaign for the *Retention* of AP maybe

Bring back the optional and alternative tests for Piano and Organ - "Harmonize at Sight the Given Melody" and "Continue a Melodic Line from the given 4 bars".

It is not AP don't panic hehe

Is there no option for keyboard harmony these days? Not that I would have done it *scary*

That's the easiest part!

No, I think I could have coped with that.
I have an old copy of the tests and they were not very complicated.

The singing bit has got to go! I'm convinced it's the reason I only got a merit in my last exam. And it's the cause of all my nervousness.

Wow, they would be so much better - I don't mind aural (perfect pitch helps) but still find the memory tests stressful, so I'd love an alternative .

Some other music examination boards (is it LCM or VCM? I'm sure someone will know) allow one to be exempt from the aural tests in the exam, being given full marks, if one has a good mark in practical musicianship in the grade, as sufficient skills have been demonstrated there. I'd love it if the AB offered this option too - it'd encourage the uptake of practical musicianship skills, arguably more useful than the academic exercises in the aural tests, and one wouldn't have to repeat aural tests in every exam one sat.

well I certainly couldn't join the campaign for the removal of AP . Maybe my next statement will get the campaign renamed to that though .

I quite like the aural tests in the exams, I find them the least stressful marks to get: pieces one works hard on; scales, although not 'difficult' when practised, do require quite a bit of practice; sightreading is worrying because having practised it one could get a horrible example that one doesn't get along with; but aural is just a few questions, if one question is nasty one will lose at most one or two marks and the rest will probably be okay. It's certainly the section I usually put the lest effort into (explicitly that is although I do listen to a lot of music anyway) and my marks aren't generally lower. So I'd like to keep aural; it's the quickest source of marks in the exam . I wouldn't choose to remove aural from my next exam even if I could (assuming that the other option was to have the other marks scaled of course; if it was to be awarded the 18 marks for nothing then I'd go for that ).

I'm like AP, aural has always been the easy part for me and I think my lowest mark for it in AB exams is 16/18.

Yep, me too!! I had full marks last time, so I feel I can at least count on this section, even if I let myself down in the others .

Pah.










Just kidding

Aural Shmaural

Count me in. I'd have joined earlier but I have only just sseen this.

Steve

How can anyone get good marks for aural...its mental...I hate it..pointless pathetic (insert rude word here)

Shall I suggest one way.

... bribery?

That said, I have no idea how other people get good marks in aural: I have no idea what techniques they might be using....

Having a deaf examiner I guess

Keep guessing.

Skimpy clothing?

Now there's an idea

*CONFUZZLED*

Car Expert

Don't say practice because that is a load of codswallop

KODALY!!!!!!!

Oh, narh

Nar then young lady, is that what the' teach thee at' Royal College o' Northern Myoe-sic?

Hehe - some of us need them, Nat, to make up for our other deficiencies (well, I mean, I do !)

Singing back a tune: never had a "technique", just don't have a problem with doing that.

Clapping back a rhythm: been doing that since I was 7, never been a problem.

Sight-singing: well I know my intervals well and sight-sing a lot, and thus far the grade 4 one that I did (with no previous practice) and the grade 4 5 and 6 sight-singing samples that I have done have been easy. I was a bit unsure on the grade 4 one, I think that's where I lost a couple of marks but mainly because I was rather diffident, I should have trusted myself more.

The bit about features of a piece: not too bad if you have fairly good general musical knowledge, or at least the ones I have done.

What else is there? I can't remember.

I've never done a Kodaly lesson in my life and find aurals generally the easiest part of the exam, so though it seems to be a good way it isn't the only way. Not sure I've ever used "techniques" - just been well taught.

Campaign for the Removal of Aural Perfidiousness

Indeed

I just had a thought. I can enrol on their behalf, every student I ever entered for graded and professional standard music exams.

That takes the membership to just over 1,000.

Steve

Wow Steve..that will help so much.

I can't thank you enough

Actually, come to think about it, many former students are now earning a living as musicians. All but the most stunning performers have to teach, so:

I unilaterally sign up all students of my former students as members.

This should take the membership up to about 3,000.

We're on a roll.

Ooh yey..this campaign is really taking off

I'll Join!

Isn't it at Easter that ressurrection occurs?
Having had to sight-sing in public the other week as the only alto, I have decided that it's not something I will ever be doing again! There were pupils of mine in the audience who were mortified on my behalf, and one was overheard saying to her mother as I stood up, "OMG, she really can't sing, you know; I know from when we do the aural tests..."