top of page
Bringing Stories to Life Through Music — Composer, Educator, & Author Specializing in Emotional Storytelling
Audio Samples
From The Musical Storyteller 3rd edition
by Stephen Berkemeier

Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Audio 1.1_Vertical Interval and Horizontal Interval
Minor 2nd (Half Step)
Major 2nd (Whole Step)
Minor 3rd
Major 3rd
Perfect 4th
Tritone
Perfect 5th
Minor 6th
Major 6th
Minor 7th
Octave
Chapter 2
Chapter 2
Audio 2.1_Counting in Fours
Audio 2.2_Counting in Three's
Audio 2.3_Counting in Two's
Audio 2.4_The Seasons as Rhythm
Audio 2.5_I Appreciate All Music
Audio 2.6_Triplets
Audio 2.7_Quintuplets
Chapter 3
Chapter 3
Audio 3.1_C Major Scale
Audio 3.2_C Major Triad
Audio 3.3_C Minor Triad
Audio 3.4_C Diminished Triad
Audio 3.5_C Augmented Triad
Audio 3.6_C Major 7th
Audio 3.7_C Minor 7th
Audio 3.8_C Minor Major 7th
Audio 3.9_C Half Diminished 7th
Audio 3.10_C Diminished 7th
Audio 3.11_C Dominant 7th
Audio 3.12_Authentic Cadence
Audio 3.13_Deceptive Cadence V7 to VI-
Audio 3.14_Deceptive Cadence V7 to III-
Audio 3.15_Half Cadence
Audio 3.16_Plagal Cadence
Audio 3.17_Chord Progression Sample
Chapter 4
Chapter 4
Audio 4.1_Relative Major then Minor Scale
Audio 4.2_Sample Chord Progression
Audio 4.3_Sample Chord Progression
Audio 4.4_Sample Chord Progression with Bass line
Audio 4.5_Chord Progression Voice Leading Example
Audio 4.6_Sample Chord Progression
Audio 4.7_Simple Substitution Example 1
Audio 4.8_Simple Substitution Sample 2
Audio 4.9_Simple Substitution Sample 3
Chapter 5
Chapter 5
Audio 5.1_C Ionian
Audio 5.2_D Dorian
Audio 5.3_E Phrygian
Audio 5.4_F Lydian
Audio 5.5_G Mixolydian
Audio 5.6_A Aeolian
Audio 5.7_B Locrian
Audio 5.8_ Dorian Cadence (E minor to D minor)
Audio 5.9_ Dorian Cadence (G major to D minor)
Audio 5.10_ Sample Chord Progression
Audio 5.11_ Modal Reharmonization
Audio 5.12_Modal Reharmonization Sample 2
Chapter 6
Chapter 6
Audio 6.1_Default Bassline Example
Audio 6.2_Default Bassline with Rhythm
Audio 6.3_Rhythmic Bassline with Added 5ths
Audio 6.4_Anticipation
Audio 6.5_Pickup Tone
Audio 6.6_Simple Bassline
Audio 6.7_Inversions in Bassline
Chapter 7
Chapter 7
Audio 7.1_Extended Chords of the Major Key
Audio 7.2_Extended Chords of the Minor Key
Audio 7.3_Extending Triads (Sample)
Chapter 8
Chapter 8
Audio 8.1_Basic Chord Progression (Sample)
Audio 8.2_Secondary Dominant Sample
Audio 8.3_Different Types of Secondary Dominants
Audio 8.4_Secondary Diminished
Audio 8.5_Jazz Cadences
Audio 8.6_Gear Shift Up
Audio 8.7_Gear Shift Down
Audio 8.8_Common Chord Modulation
Audio 8.9_Modal Modulation
Audio 8.10_Secondary Dominant Modulation
Audio 8.11_Modulating to Relative Keys
Chapter 9
Chapter 9
Audio 9.1_Goose Eggs
Audio 9.2_Neighbor Tones
Audio 9.3_Double Neighbor Tones
Audio 9.4_Consonance in Action
Audio 9.5_Staggered vs Articulated Dissonance
Audio 9.6_Escape tones
Audio 9.7_Suspensions and Retardations
Audio 9.8_Anticipations
Audio 9.9_Chromatic Passing Tones
Audio 9.10_Appoggiaturas
Chapter 11
Chapter 11
Audio 11.1_Counting the Beat
Audio 11.2_Counting the Pulse
Audio 11.3_Staccato Comparison
Chapter 12
Chapter 12
Audio 12.1_Fate Motif
Audio 12.2_Batman Motif
Audio 12.3_Starting with Pitch
Audio 12.4_Adding Rhythm
Audio 12.5_Our Motif
Chapter 13
Chapter 13
Audio 13.1_Question Phrase
Audio 13.2_Answer Phrase
Audio 13.3_Original Motif
Audio 13.4_Rhythmic Augmentation
Audio 13.5_Rhythmic Diminution
Audio 13.6_Rhythmically Transformed
Audio 13.7_Metric Displacement
Audio 13.8 _Changing Time Signatures
Audio 13.9_Accentuation
Audio 13.10_Chromatic Sequencing
Audio 13.11_Diatonic Sequencing
Audio 13.12_Exact Melodic Inversion
Audio 13.13_ Diatonic Melodic Inversion
Audio 13.14_Complete Retrograde
Audio 13.15_Rhythmic Retrograde
Audio 13.16_Melodic Retrograde
Audio 13.17_Fragmentation
Audio 13.18_Interval Expansion and Contraction
Audio 13.19_Quantitative Embellishment
Audio 13.20_Qualitative Embellishment
Audio 13.21_Reduction
Audio 13.22_Reconstruction
Audio 13.23_Sentence Structure A
Audio 13.24_Sentence Structure A'
Audio 13.25_Sentence Structure B
Audio 13.26_Sentence Structure C
Audio 13.27_Period Structure
Audio 13.28_Sequencing Structure
Chapter 14
Chapter 14
Audio 14.1_Sample Chord Progression
Audio 14.2_Initial Motif
Audio 14.3_Initial Target Tones
Audio 14.4_Chords first melody
Audio 14.5_Sample Melody
Audio 14.6_Harmonized Melody
Chapter 17
Chapter 17
Audio 17.1_Species 1
Audio 17.2_Species 2A
Audio 17.3_Species 2B
Audio 17.4_Species 3
Audio 17.5_Species 4
Audio 17.6_Species 5
Audio 17.7_Cantus Firmus
Audio 17.8_Counterpoint Sketch
Audio 17.9_Counterpoint Sample
Audio 17.10_Call and Response
Audio 17.11_Active vs Inactive
Audio 17.12_Filler
Audio 17.13_Rhythmic Ostinato
Audio 17.14_Harmonic Ostinato
Audio 17.15_Melodic Ostinato
Chapter 23
Chapter 23
Audio 23.1_Staccato Violin
Audio 23.2_Spiccato Violin
Audio 23.3_Tremolo Violin
Audio 23.4_Trill Violin (Major 2nd)
Audio 23.5_Pizzicato Violin
Audio 23.6_Bartok Pizzicato Violin
Audio 23.7 _ Sul tasto (Violin Section)
Audio 23.8_Sul Ponticello (Violin Section)
Audio 23.9 _ Col Legno Battuto Violin
Audio 23.10_Con Sordino Violin
Audio 23.11_Legato Violin
Chapter 24
Chapter 24
Audio 24.1_Marcato (English Horn)
Audio 24.2_Legato Oboe
Audio 24.3_FLutter Tongue (Flute
Chapter 25
Chapter 25
Audio 25.1_Flutter Tongue (Trumpet)
Audio 25.2_Cuivre (Horns)
Audio 25.3_Muted Trumpet
Chapter 27
Chapter 27
Audio 27.1_Like Doubling
Audio 27.2_Unlike Doubling
Audio 27.3_Additive Accentuation
Audio 27.4_Additive Crescendo
Audio 27.5_Subtractive Decrescendo
Audio 27.6_Registral Accentuation
Audio 27.7_Registral Accentuation B
Audio 27.8_Coloristic Accentuation
Audio 27.9_Orchestral Resonance
Chapter 29
Chapter 29
Audio 29.1_Monophonic Texture
Audio 29.2_Simplified Variation
Audio 29.3_Flourishing Embellishment
Audio 29.4_Rhythmic Embellishment
Audio 29.5_Chordal Texture
Audio 29.6_Sustained Chords
Audio 29.7_Rhythmic Chords
Audio 29.8_Arpeggiated Chords
Chapter 30 & 31
Chapter 30 & 31
Audio 30.1_Out of the Box
Audio 30.2_Subtle Sequencing
Audio 31.1_Dovetailing
Chapter 32
Chapter 32
Audio 32.2_Out of the Box
Audio 32.3_Subtle Sequencing
Chapter 34
Chapter 34
34.1_Pink Noise
34.2_Trumpet Mix 20%
34.3_Trumpet Mix 80%
34.4_Realistic Tail
34.5_Extra Long Tail
34.6_Soft Room
34.7_Hard Room
bottom of page
