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Designed for the "musicianship" portion of the freshman theory sequence, Benjamin/Horvit/Nelson MUSIC FOR SIGHT SINGING, Sixth Edition, presents music that is carefully chosen to challenge--not overwhelm--you.
Contents
Part I1. 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: Supertonic Traid. Pitch: Submediant and Mediant Triads. Pitch: Tenor Clef.9. Rhythm: Triplets and Duplets.10. Music from the Literature.11. Rhythm: Syncopation. Pitch: Other Seventh Chords.Part 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. Rhythm: Quintuple Meters. Pitch: Chromaticism Implying Altered Chords; Modulation to Distantly Related Keys.17. Music from the Literature.Part III: TWENTIETH-CENTURY TECHNIQUES.18. Rhythm: Irregular Meters. Pitch: Diatonic Modes. Pitch: Changing Clefs. Part Music.19. Rhythm: Changing Meters.Pitch: Pandiatonicism.20. Rhythm: Syncopation Including Irregular and Mixed Meters. Pitch: Extended and Altered Tertian Harmony.21. Pitch: Exotic Scales.22. Rhythm: Complex Divisions of the Beat. Pitch: Quartal Harmony.23. Rhythm: Polyrhythms and Polymeters. Pitch: Polyharmony and Polytonality.24. Pitch: Interval Music.25. Serial Music.26. Music from the Literature.
