IMPROVISATION:
LUDUS VOCALIS I:
major and minor chords
1: PREPARATORY EXERCISES chord tones
LUDUS VOCALIS
VOCAL IMPROVISATION PRIMER
PREPARATORY EXERCISES
The top line is to be sung and the lower line is to be heard in the head. The purpose of these preparatory exercises is to learn to always hear the root of the chord being sung. Each bar is a motive (the smallest bit of music that has meaning). After singing the preparatory exercises aloud they are to be sung sotto voce, and then just heard in the head. Care must be taken always to hear both the motive and its root simultaneously. There are three groups of exercises: chords (bugle calls), passing tones, and neighbouring tones. Each group systematically explores major, and minor, moving to the next chord tone, jumping to the chord tone after next (leaps), and is presented in duple and triple time.