Music for Sight Singing

Music for Sight Singing

<P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B> <I>The most engaging and musical Sight-Singing text on the market.</I> </B> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <I>Music for Sight Singing </I>is structured around organized melodiesdrawn from the literature of composed music and a wide range of the world€s folk music. <I>Real</I> music exercises allow readers to practice sight singing and develop their €œmind€s ear€ €“ the ability to imagine how music sounds without first playing it on an instrument. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">The ninth edition continues to introduce a host of important musical considerations beyond pitch and rhythm- including dynamics, accents, articulations, slurs, repeat signs, and tempo markings. The book€s arrangement of simple to complex exercises lays the foundations for success.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B> </B> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B> <U>Learning Goals</U> </B> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Upon completing this book, readers will be able to: </P> <UL> <LI>Fluently read rhythms in simple and compound meters, including those in relatively unusual, irregular, or changing meter signatures. <LI>Sight sing melodies in any major or minor key, and in any diatonic mode. <LI>Effortlessly read all four common clefs. <LI>Understand common musical symbols and terms. <LI>Recognize and sing important harmonic features such as dominant seventh and Neapolitan chords. <LI>Improvise effectively from a variety of background structures such as a harmonic progression or an underlying contrapuntal framework. <LI>Negotiate chromatic passages from simple embellishing tones and tonicizations to modulations to post-tonal music.</LI> </UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>NOTE: </B>MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase the text with MySearchLab, order the package ISBN:</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>020595524X / 9780205955244 Music for Sight Singing Plus MySearchLab with eText -- Access Card Package </B> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Package consists of:    </B> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">0205938337 / 9780205938339 Music for Sight Singing </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">0205955053 / 9780205955053 MySearchLab with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card -- for Music for Sight Singing</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P>