Full Description
For courses in sight singing and music theory. The most celebrated, engaging, and musical sight-singing text on the market A freshly updated edition of the classic musical textbook, Music for Sight Singing, 10th Edition, is structured around organized melodies, drawn from the literature of composed music and a wide range of the world's folk music. Real music exercises allow readers to practice sight singing and develop their "mind's ear," the ability to imagine how music sounds without first playing it on an instrument. The new edition includes even more melodies and several new topics; improved introductions to minor keys, pre-dominant leaps, and chromaticism; and increased use of bass and C clefs — while retaining the simple-to-complex arrangement that lays the foundation for success.
Contents
Brief Contents
PART I MELODY: DIATONIC INTERVALS RHYTHM: DIVISION OF THE BEAT
RHYTHM: Simple Meters; The Beat and Its Division into Two Parts
MELODY: Stepwise Melodies, Major Keys
RHYTHM: Simple Meters; The Beat and Its Division into Two Parts
MELODY: Leaps within the Tonic Triad, Major Keys
RHYTHM: Simple Meters
MELODY: Leaps within the Tonic Triad, Major Keys
RHYTHM: Compound Meters; The Beat and Its Division into Three Parts
MELODY: Minor Keys; Leaps within the Tonic Triad
RHYTHM: Simple and Compound Meters
MELODY: Leaps within the Dominant Triad (V); Major and Minor Keys
RHYTHM: Simple and Compound Meters
THE C CLEFS: Alto and Tenor Clefs
MELODY: Further Use of Diatonic Leaps
RHYTHM: Simple and Compound Meters
MELODY: Leaps within the Dominant Seventh Chord (V7); Other Diatonic Seventh Leaps
RHYTHM: Simple and Compound Meters
PART II 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: Leaps within the Tonic and Dominant Triads
RHYTHM: Subdivision in Simple and Compound Meters
MELODY: Further Use of Diatonic Leaps
RHYTHM: Subdivision in Simple and Compound Meters
PART III MELODY: CHROMATICISM RHYTHM: FURTHER RHYTHMIC PRACTICES
RHYTHM and MELODY: Syncopation
RHYTHM and MELODY: Triplet Division of Undotted Note Values; Duplet Division of Dotted Note Values
MELODY: Chromaticism (I): Chromatic Embellishing Tones; Tonicizing the Dominant; Modulation to the Key of the Dominant or the Relative Major
MELODY: Chromaticism (II): Tonicization of Any Diatonic Triad; Modulation to Any Closely Related Key
RHYTHM and MELODY: Changing Meter Signatures; The Hemiola; Less Common Meter Signatures
RHYTHM and MELODY: Further Subdivision of the Beat; Notation in Slow Tempi
MELODY: Chromaticism (III): Additional Uses of Chromatic Tones; Remote Modulation
PART IV THE DIATONIC MODES AND RECENT MUSIC
MELODY: The Diatonic Modes
RHYTHM and MELODY: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
APPENDIX A: RHYTHM SOLMIZATION APPENDIX B: PITCH SOLMIZATION APPENDIX C: MUSICAL TERMS
