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Music for Sightsinging

by: Ottman, Robert W.

ISBN: 9780131896628 | 0131896628

Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2004

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Summary Table of Contents

For freshman/sophomore-level courses in any Music Theory curriculum.Blending step-by-step guidance with frequent practice, this text helps students cultivate an understanding of sight singing. This text presents melodies and exercises that enable students to develop the skills of reading pitch, reading rhythm, and combining these two essential elements.The Sixth Edition contains nearly 1200 melodies taken from a wide spectrum of music literature and the world's folk music.

The study of sight singing is one of the m... MOREost important means of developing the ability to recognize ("to hear") mentally the sound of music notation on the printed page without the necessity of recourse to a musical instrument. For the professional musician, performer, or teacher, this skill is a necessity, while for others, achievement will greatly amplify the pleasures of musical activity in performance and listening. To achieve success in sight singing, students must have large numbers of melodies available for practice. Once a melody has been sung, repetition is no longer "singing at first sight," although reviewing for study purposes is highly recommended. To this end, this volume includes 1,199 examples. Most of these are chosen from worldwide folk sources and a wide variety of composed music, ranging from melodies simpler than Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star to excerpts from Bartok string quartets. The remaining examples, written by the author, provide practice for rhythm alone, and for singing melodies composed only of adjacent scale steps, valuable for initial study but rarely found in music literature. Each chapter presents only one new problem, either in rhythm or in melody, allowing students to concentrate on the newly introduced feature. Otherwise, no chapter will include any material not already presented in earlier chapters. For the dedicated student, this careful selection and grading of melodies guarantees steady and rewarding progress to a successful accomplishment of sight singing skills. Some of the changes in the new edition include: bull; bull;Additional melodies incorporating modulation and other uses of chromaticism. bull;In many chapters, order of materials reorganized to reflect a better sequence from easy to more difficult. bull;Revised and/or added materials in introductory statements, especially in the subjects of the hemiola, melodic use of the Neapolitan sixth harmony, and twentieth-century music. bull;Numerous new melodies, including a "find" of easy but effective melodies by Schubert, especially in modulation and syncopation.

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Melody: Diatonic Intervals
Rhythm: Division of the Beat
Rhythm: Simple Time (Meter); The Beat and its Division Into Two Parts
Melody: Scale-line Melodies
Rhythm: Simple Time; The Beat and its Division Into Two Parts
Melody: Intervals from the Tonic Triad, Major Keys
Rhythm: Simple Time
Melody: Intervals from the Tonic Triad, Major Keys
Rhythm: Compound Time; The Beat and its Division into Three Parts
Minor Keys; Intervals from the Tonic Triad
Rhythm: Simple and Compound Time
Intervals from the Dominant (V) Triad; Major and Minor Keys
Rhythm: Simple and Compound Time
The C Clefs: Alto and Tenor Clefs
Melody: Further Use of Diatonic Intervals
Rhythm: Simple and Compound Time
Melody: Intervals from the Dominant Seventh Chord V7; Other Diatonic Intervals of the Seventh
Rhythm: Simple and Compound Time
Melody: Diatonic Intervals
Rhythm: Subdivision of the Beat
Rhythm: The Subdivision of the Beat; The Simple Beat into Four Parts; The Compound Beat into Six Parts
Melody: Intervals from the Tonic and Dominant Triads
Rhythm: Subdivision in Simple and Compound Time
Melody: Further Use of Diatonic Intervals
Rhythm: Subdivision in Simple and Compound Time
Melody: Chromaticism
Rhythm: Further Rhythmic Practices
Melody: Chromaticism (I): Chromatic Nonharmonic Tones; Dominant of the Dominant Harmony (V/V); Modulation to the Key of the Dominant
Melody: Chromaticism (II): Modulation to Closely Related Keys; Additional Secondary Dominant Harmonies
Rhythm: Syncopation
Rhythm and Melody: Triplet Division of Undotted Note Values; Duplet Division of Dotted Note Values
Rhythm and Melody: Changing Time Signatures; The Hemiola; Less Common Time Signatures
Rhythm and Melody: Further Subdivision of the Beat; Slow Tempo
Melody: Chromaticism (III): Additional Uses of Chromatic Tones; Remote Modulation
The Medieval Modes and Twentieth-Century Music
Melody: The Medieval Modes
Twentieth Century Music
Appendix: Musical Terms
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