Music for Sight Singing

by Benjamin, Thomas E.; Horvit, Michael; Nelson, Robert S.

• ISBN13: 9780534532994
• ISBN10: 0534532993
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Spiral Bound
• Copyright: 2000-01-18
• Publisher: Schirmer

Summary

This text presents music that is challenging, yet not overwhelming to young musicians. Drawing on their own extensive experience as composers and arrangers who adapt music for their own students, the authors have struck a balance between rigor and accessibility.

Table of Contents

I

COMMON PRACTICE TECHNIQUES: DIATONIC

1. Rhythm: One-and Two-Pulse Units (Unmetered)

Pitch: The Major Scale

2. Rhythm: Simple Meters

Pitch: Introducing Thirds

Pitch: Introducing Fourths

3. Pitch: Tonic Triad in the Major Mode

Introducing Fifths, Sixths, and Octaves

4. Rhythm: 2:1 Subdivisions of the Beat

Pitch: I, V, and V7. Introducing Sevenths

5. Rhythm: Anacruses (Upbeats) and 4:1

Subdivisions of the Beat

Pitch: I, IV, V, and V7. Pitch: Introducing the Alto Clef

6. Rhythm: Dots and Ties

Pitch: Minor Mode

7. Music from the Literature

8. Rhythm: Compound Meter

Pitch: All Diatonic Triads

Pitch: Tenor Clef

9. Rhythm: Triplets and Duplets

10. Music from the Literature

11. Rhythm: Syncopation

Pitch: Seventh Chords

II

COMMON PRACTICE TECHNIQUES: CHROMATIC

12. Pitch: Decorative Chromaticism

Pitch: Inflected Scale Degrees

Pitch: Scalar Variants in Minor

Pitch: Modal Borrowing

13. Music from the Literature

14. Pitch: Secondary Dominants

15. Pitch: Modulations to Closely Related Keys

16. Music from the Literature

17. Rhythm: Quintuple Meters

Pitch: Chromaticism Implying Altered Chords

Modulation to Nonclosely Related Keys

18. Music from the Literature

III

TWENTIETH-CENTURY TECHNIQUES

19. Rhythm: Irregular Meters

Pitch: Diatonic Modes

Pitch: Changing Clefs

20. Rhythm: Changing Meters

Pitch: Pandiatonicism

21. Rhythm: Syncopation

Pitch: Extended and Altered Tertian Harmony

22. Pitch: Exotic Scales

23. Rhythm: Complex Divisions of the Beat

Pitch: Quartal Harmony

24. Rhythm: Polyrhythms and Polymeters

Pitch: Polyharmony and Polytonality

25. Pitch: Interval Music

26. Serial Music

27. Music from the Literature