Authors: Carol Krueger
ISBN-13: 9780195386042, ISBN-10: 0195386043
Format: Other Format
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: June 2010
Edition: 2nd Edition
Carol Krueger received a DMA in Choral Conducting from the University of Miami and has taught in public schools as well as in higher education. An active clinician and guest conductor, Dr. Krueger is widely recognized for her work with music literacy and has presented interest sessions at the American Choral Directors National Convention in New York, the ACDA Southern Division Convention in Nashville, and at MENC and ACDA state conventions throughout the United States.
Ideal for undergraduate courses in aural skills, Progressive Sight Singing introduces students to the underlying grammar and syntax of musical structure and prepares them to perceive that structure with both the ear and the eye. Working from the premise that students learn musical skills in much the same order as they do language skills, this book employs a unique pedagogical structure that introduces the concept of sound before sight. It trains the ear firstthrough hearing and imitating patternsteaching students to hear and perform before they read and write.
FEATURES:
• Extensively and successfully class-tested at colleges and universities nationwide
• Adds only one new element per chapter and incorporates components from previous chapters into examples and exercises, thereby continuously reinforcing learned skills
• Integrates a rich variety of well-paced, graduated exercises covering rhythmic and melodic reading, dictation, audiation, musical memory, and error detection
• Encourages students to actively participate (sing, chant, write, create, improvise) in the practice of each concept in order to become skilled musicians
• Offers instructors great flexibility in that they can use the tonal and reading systems they prefer; the appendixes provide a brief overview of each system
• Packaged with an audio CD that includes rhythm and tonal patterns introduced in the book; this connects the eye to the ear and helps student hone their aural skills
• Supplemented by an Instructor's Manual that expands upon the pedagogy underlying the book, offers solutions to the exercises, and provides additional exercises and teaching tips
An introduction to the music literacy process | ||
Strategies for successful sight singing | ||
Building musicianship and independence | ||
Pt. I | Rhythmic reading | |
1 | Simple meter - quarter note = beat unit; undivided beat | 3 |
2 | Simple meter - quarter note = beat unit; divided beat | 12 |
3 | Simple meter - quarter note = beat unit; slur, tie, and extension dot | 21 |
4 | Terms and symbols | 28 |
5 | Compound meter - dotted quarter = beat unit; divided beats | 37 |
6 | Simple meter - quarter note = beat unit; borrowed division | 44 |
7 | Simple meter - quarter note = beat unit; syncopation | 52 |
8 | Simple meter - quarter note = beat unit; subdivided beats | 59 |
9 | More terms and symbols | 67 |
10 | Simple meter - quarter note = beat unit; more rhythms with borrowed best division | 75 |
11 | Simple meter - quarter note = beat unit; more rhythms with syncopations | 82 |
12 | Simple meter - quarter note = beat unit; more rhythms with subdivided beats | 88 |
13 | Half note = beat unit | 94 |
14 | Simple meter - eighth note = beat unit | 101 |
15 | Compound meter - more rhythms | 107 |
16 | Cross-rhythms and hemiola | 114 |
17 | Asymmetrical meters | 119 |
18 | Mixed meters | 128 |
Pt. II | Melodic reading | |
1 | Tonic pentachord in major mode; simple meters, undivided beat | 137 |
2 | Diatonic steps and tonic triad in the major scale; simple meters, undivided beat | 153 |
3 | Diatonic steps and tonic triad in the natural minor scale; simple meters, undivided beat | 168 |
4 | Diatonic steps and tonic triad in the major scale; simple meters, divided beat | 178 |
5 | Diatonic steps and tonic triad in the major scale; simple meters, dotted quarter notes | 189 |
6 | Natural, harmonic, and melodic minor scales; simple meters, eighth and dotted quarter notes | 200 |
7 | Major and minor modes; compound meters - dotted quarter = beat unit | 227 |
8 | I and V[subscript 7] in major mode; simple and compound meters | 242 |
9 | i and V[subscript 7] in minor mode; simple and compound meters | 270 |
10 | I and V[subscript 7] in major mode; other rhythms in simple meters | 295 |
11 | i and V[subscript 7] in minor mode; other rhythms in simple meters | 318 |
12 | I and V[subscript 7] in major and minor modes; half note = beat unit | 335 |
13 | I and V[subscript 7] in major and minor modes; eight note = beat unit | 347 |
14 | I and V[subscript 7] in major and minor; compound meters - more rhythms | 357 |
15 | I, ii, IV, and V[subscript 7] in major mode; simple and compound meters | 374 |
16 | i, iv, and V[subscript 7] in minor mode; simple and compound meters | 401 |
17 | Chromatic alterations; simple and compound meters | 417 |
18 | Modes | 435 |
App. A | Rhythm reading systems | 445 |
App. B | Tonal reading systems | 457 |
App. C | Dictation | 462 |
App. D | Conducting patterns | 465 |
App. E | Glossary of foreign terms | 466 |