Music for Sight Singing - Softcover

Ottman, Robert W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0136075320 ISBN 13: 9780136075325

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1986

Synopsis

This study blends step-by-step guidance with frequent practice to cultivate an understanding of, and the skills for, sight singing - the ability to hear mentally a piece of printed music without using an instrument. This edition provides an organized collection of melodies taken from music literature mostly ranging from fundamental works of the past to representative excerpts taken from recent 20th-century music.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert W. Ottman, deceased, an internationally renowned music theorist, was an important contributor to Music Theory education. He wrote eight textbooks and co-authored four others, all which are used to educate English-speaking students worldwide. Dr. Ottman also was a professor and chair of the Music Theory Department at the University of North Texas and a conductor of the Madrigal Singers. He earned both his BA and MM from Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, NY, and his Ph.D. from what is now the University of North Texas in 1956. He was honored with the University of North Texas President's Citation for outstanding service to the university in April 2004. 

 

Nancy Rogers is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Florida State University and the current Secretary of the Society for Music Theory; she is also a Faculty Reader and Consultant for the Advanced Placement Test in Music Theory. She received her Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music, where she won both school-wide and university-wide teaching awards. Dr. Rogers' primary research interest is music cognition and its pedagogical implications, and she has presented papers at national, international, and regional conferences. Her recent publications may be found inMusic Theory Online, theJournal of Music Theory Pedagogy, andIndiana Theory Review.

From the Back Cover:

This versatile volume presents a collection of melodies carefully selected for their capacity to develop sight singing ability. Featuring singing material from folk music and the literature of composed music, Music for Sight Singing, Fifth Edition continues to expose students to a wide range of musical styles. All melodies are graded according to both rhythmic and melodic difficulty and progress from the easiest materials to more complex.

Featuring over one thousand melodies and exercises, each chapter presents a new problem in either rhythm or melody, allowing students to study one problem at a time—but giving them experience in performing both rhythmic and melodic patterns. In addition, the following revisions have been carefully incorporated to enhance t lie overall presentation:

• More easy melodic examples in the earlier chapters.
• Expanded chapter on "Modulation to the Dominant."
• Singing range of many melodies lowered in order to avoid high notes.
• Difficult key signatures found at the end of earlier chapters, as a separate presentation.
• More instructional materials.
• More suggestions for alternative presentations of sight singing materials.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0136075320
• ISBN 13: 9780136075325
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 304