I tried a new activity in our weekly Studio Class yesterday: Dynamic Dictation. If you've been through sight-singing and ear training courses, you know about rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic dictation. This is when the instructor plays something on the piano, and you have to write down what you hear. Well, in a Dynamic Dictation exercise, one horn student plays part of a prepared solo, etude, or excerpt, and the rest of the students mark the dynamics they hear.
