300 Progressive Sight Reading Exercises for Cello Large Print Version: Part Two of Two, Exercises 151-300: Volume 1 - Softcover

Anthony, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1505989574 ISBN 13: 9781505989571

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

This series of large print books has been updated and has a brand new cover design and title. It is now called Large Print 300 Progressive Sight Reading Exercises for Cello.

Visit the Large Print page of Robert Anthony Publishing webpage for links.

For the Large Print Version, the 300 exercises are broken down into two books. Part One contains exercises 1-150 and Part Two contains exercises 151-300.

THIS IS NOT A METHOD BOOK. It is precisely what it says it is: 300 Progressive Sight Reading Exercises!

All of the exercises are eight measures long. Many sonatinas, jazz standards, and pop songs use “32 Bar Form” (A A B A), “Binary Form” (A B), and “Ternary Form” (A B A), with each section often being eight bars. Thus, eight measures (one ‘period’ of music) makes the perfect length for sight-reading studies in my opinion.

While this book is intended to train sight-reading skills, it may also be used by beginners or those new to reading to acquire basic reading skills, but it assumes one either has a teacher or can at least find C on their instrument. It starts at a very basic level (only three notes) and adds a new note, rhythm, or concept every four exercises and thoroughly reinforces them throughout the rest of the book.

Next, the music’s composition is a slave to its function: The purpose of the books is to train reading skill, and the exercises keep challenging the range that has been established by previous exercises as well as less-than-convenient intervals. They are composed from a ‘music-first’ perspective, as opposed to an ‘instrument-first’ perspective, and are purposely composed to be difficult to memorize.

Additionally, a 20th-century composition technique (Bartok, Stravinsky) — Serial Composition — has also been used on several of the pieces, so if your ears are unfamiliar with this type of music, you might at first be uncomfortable with what you are hearing.

About this title

About the Author

Robert Anthony is a Multi-Instrumental Musician and has worked with Gene Simmons, A&E Television, Friends of Distinction, Ron Keel, Andy Byrd, Billy Truitt, and many more. Robert has been teaching music students for greater than 25 years.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1505989574
• ISBN 13: 9781505989571
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 164