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Musical dictation was written on almost 100 sites

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Musical dictation was written on almost 100 sites


21.10.2019

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The universal musical dictation is to become international this year, the website of the Ministry of Culture reports. On October 19, it was written by representatives of Russia, Great Britain, Italy and Mexico.

According to Alexander Aleinikov, who leads the campaign, about a hundred sites will open in almost seventy cities. Foreign participants will join the dictation online.

The broadcast will go from the central venue - the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music.

This year, participants were be offered ten different dictations, from one to three voices. They were designed for a very different level of training - from the third grade of a music school to the level of a professor. One person can write several dictations.

An experienced teacher of music theory or solfeggio played a piece of music several times, and participants had to note down what they heard. This year, the composers Vitaly Aleev and Svyatoslav Ovodov became the authors of the composition for dictations.

The organizers expressed the hope that the number of dictation participants would increase this year. They expect about two thousand works. A year ago, there were about one and a half thousand of them.

One can test musical literacy and a sense of pitch at three venues in Moscow, as well as in Arkhangelsk, Chuvashia, Murmansk, Rostov-on-Don, Smolensk and some other regions.

The universal musical dictation was first held in Russia in 2018.

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