Music for Sight Singing

Name: Music for Sight Singing
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ISBN: 9780134475455

by Nancy Rogers, Robert W. Ottman

10th Edition

Publisher: Pearson Education

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Print ISBN	9780134475455
eText ISBN	9780134475431
Publisher	Pearson Education
Publishing Year	2019
Edition	10th Edition
Language	English
Pages	464

Music for Sight Singing, 10th Edition, provides a practical framework for students taking sight singing and music theory courses. Written by Nancy Rogers and Robert W. Ottman and published by Pearson Education, this textbook uses real musical exercises to help learners read notation and strengthen their mind's ear.

The material establishes a logical progression that balances rhythm and pitch. Students work through rhythmic reading in simple and compound meters, mastering beat divisions before advancing to melodic notation. Melodic coverage begins with stepwise movement and expands to include leaps within the tonic triad across both major and minor keys.

To encourage active musical engagement, the text incorporates structured improvisation drills alongside vocal duets. The authors select musical examples from composed literature and global folk traditions, giving students direct experience with diverse notation styles. This comprehensive methodology prepares sight singing students for advanced ear training and collaborative musicianship.

Chapter 1: RHYTHM: Simple Meters; The Beat and Its Division into Two Parts
Chapter 2: MELODY: Stepwise Melodies, Major Keys RHYTHM: Simple Meters; The Beat and Its Division into Two Parts
Chapter 3: MELODY: Leaps within the Tonic Triad, Major Keys RHYTHM: Simple Meters
Chapter 4: MELODY: Leaps within the Tonic Triad, Major Keys RHYTHM: Compound Meters; The Beat and Its Division into Three Parts
Chapter 5: MELODY: Minor Keys; Leaps within the Tonic Triad RHYTHM: Simple and Compound Meters
Chapter 6: MELODY: Leaps within the Dominant Triad (V); Major and Minor Keys RHYTHM: Simple and Compound Meters
Chapter 7: THE C CLEFS: Alto and Tenor Clefs
Chapter 8: MELODY: Further Use of Diatonic Leaps RHYTHM: Simple and Compound Meters
Chapter 9: MELODY: Leaps within the Dominant Seventh Chord (V7); Other Diatonic Seventh Leaps RHYTHM: Simple and Compound Meters
Chapter 10: RHYTHM: The Subdivision of the Beat: The Simple Beat into Four Parts, The Compound Beat into Six Parts
Chapter 11: MELODY: Leaps within the Tonic and Dominant Triads RHYTHM: Subdivision in Simple and Compound Meters
Chapter 12: MELODY: Further Use of Diatonic Leaps RHYTHM: Subdivision in Simple and Compound Meters
Chapter 13: RHYTHM and MELODY: Syncopation
Chapter 14: RHYTHM and MELODY: Triplet Division of Undotted Note Values; Duplet Division of Dotted Note Values
Chapter 15: MELODY: Chromaticism (I): Chromatic Embellishing Tones; Tonicizing the Dominant; Modulation to the Key of the Dominant or the Relative Major
Chapter 16: MELODY: Chromaticism (II): Tonicization of Any Diatonic Triad; Modulation to Any Closely Related Key
Chapter 17: RHYTHM and MELODY: Changing Meter Signatures; The Hemiola; Less Common Meter Signatures
Chapter 18: RHYTHM and MELODY: Further Subdivision of the Beat; Notation in Slow Tempi
Chapter 19: MELODY: Chromaticism (III): Additional Uses of Chromatic Tones; Remote Modulation
Chapter 20: MELODY: The Diatonic Modes
Chapter 21: RHYTHM and MELODY: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Chapter A: RHYTHM SOLMIZATION
Chapter B: PITCH SOLMIZATION
Chapter C: MUSICAL TERMS