A sequential sight-singing curriculum for all choirs. Each of the six units (containing four lessons each) clearly introduces new music reading concepts, reinforces those concepts with several rhythm and pitch exercises, motivates students with helpful hints and challenge exercises, and concludes with fun-filled review games and "Evaluating Your Performance" questions. The helpful "Getting Ready" pages (which precede each unit) are filled with music fundamentals, and for choirs who have never read music before, an optional "Before We Begin" chapter opens the book. And it's all neatly laid out in a 96-page octavo sized publication; a perfect fit for your students, and their folders. From whole notes to sixteenth-note patterns, seconds to sevenths, key signatures, dynamics, articulations, and tempo markings; it's all here, and it's all logically ordered to ensure student success! Spend just a few minutes a day with this book and your choir, too, will learn to "Sing at First Sight!" This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

 

Contents

How to Use This Book

 

The Importance of Sight-Singing

 

Singing Posture

 

Breathing

 

Curwen Hand Signs

 

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

 

Beat, Rhythm, Notes, Rests, Staff, Treble Clef, Lines and Spaces, Ledger Lines, Flat, Sharp, Key Signature, Time Signature, Bar Lines, Measures, Double Bar Lines

 

Getting Ready for Unit 1

 

4/4 Time, Major Scale, C Major and F Major, Essential Exercise

 

UNIT 1

 

Lesson 1 Quarter Note, Quarter Rest, Do, Re

 

Lesson 2 Half Note, Half Rest, Mi, Fa

 

Lesson 3 Whole Note, Whole Rest, Sol, La

 

Lesson 4 Eighth Note, Eighth Rest, Ti, High Do

 

Choral Designs "Song of Joy" / Jay Althouse

 

Review Scavenger Hunt, Find the Wrong Note, Evaluating Your Performance

 

Getting Ready for Unit 2

 

Repeat Sign, 1st and 2nd Endings, G Major and D Major, Essential Exercise

 

UNIT 2

 

Lesson 5 Tie

 

Lesson 6 Dotted Half Note, Low Ti, High Re

 

Lesson 7 Dotted Quarter Note, Low La, Low Sol

 

Lesson 8 Intervals, 2nds, 3rds

 

Choral Designs "Sleep, My Child" / Mary Donnelly and George L.O. Strid

 

Review Scavenger Hunt, Find the Wrong Note, Name That Tune, Evaluating Your Performance

 

Getting Ready for Unit 3

 

Dynamic Signs (pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff, Crescendo, Decrescendo, B-flat Major and E-flat Major, Essential Exercise

 

UNIT 3

 

Lesson 9 3/4 Time, 2/4 Time

 

Lesson 10 8ths/Octaves

 

Lesson 11 Eighth-Quarter-Eighth Note Pattern, 4ths

 

Lesson 12 5ths

 

Choral Designs "Where Go the Boats" / Dave and Jean Perry

 

Review Scavenger Hunt, Find the Wrong Note, Name That Tune, Evaluating Your Performance

 

Getting Ready for Unit 4

 

Bass Clef, Da Capo, Dal Segno, Fine, Coda, A Major and E Major, Essential Exercise

 

UNIT 4

 

Lesson 13 6ths

 

Lesson 14 7ths

 

Lesson 15 Changing Meter, Pick-up Notes

 

Lesson 16 Sixteenth Note, Sixteenth-Eighth Note Patterns

 

Choral Designs "La Música" / Jerry Estes

 

Review Scavenger Hunt, Find the Wrong Note, Name That Tune, Evaluating Your Performance

 

Getting Ready for Unit 5

 

Articulation Marks (Slur/Legato, Staccato, Accent, Tenuto), A-flat Major and D-flat Major, Essential Exercise

 

UNIT 5

 

Lesson 17 Rounds/Canons

 

Lesson 18 Two-Part Harmony

 

Lesson 19 Dotted Eighth Note, Dotted Eighth-Sixteenth Note Patterns

 

Lesson 20 Triplet

 

Choral Designs "Frozen December" / Jackie O’Neill

 

Review Scavenger Hunt, Find the Wrong Note, Name That Tune, Evaluating Your Performance

 

Getting Ready for Unit 6

 

Tempo Markings (Largo, Adagio, Andante, Moderato, Allegro, Presto, Ritardando/Rallentando, Accelerando, Molto, Poco a Poco), B Major and G-flat Major, Essential Exercise

 

UNIT 6

 

Lesson 21 2/2 Time/Cut Time

 

Lesson 22 6/8 Time, 9/8 Time

 

Lesson 23 Three-Part Harmony (Treble)

 

Lesson 24 Three-Part Harmony (Mixed)

 

Choral Designs "Alleluia Madrigal" / Donald Moore

 

Review Scavenger Hunt, Find the Wrong Note,

 

Name That Tune, Evaluating Your Performance

 

Performance Piece 1 "Sing Alleluia, Allelu!" / Andy Beck

 

Performance Piece 2 "I Am a Small Part of the World" / Sally K. Albrecht and Jay Althouse

 

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