Music for Sight Singing

Contents

• Part I : COMMON PRACTICE TECHNIQUES: DIATONIC.
• 1. Rhythm: One-and-Two-Pulse Units (Unmetered). Pitch: The Major Scale.
• 2. Rhythm: Simple Meters. Pitch: Introducing Thirds. Pitch: Introducing Fourths.
• 3. Pitch: Tonic Triad in the Major Mode. Introducing Fifths, Sixths, and Octaves.
• 4. Rhythm: 2:1 Subdivisions of the Beat. Pitch: I, V, and V7; Introducing Sevenths.
• 5. Rhythm: Anacruses (Upbeats) and 4:1 Subdivisions of the Beat. Pitch: I, IV, V, and V
• 7. Pitch: Introducing the Alto Clef.
• 6. Rhythm: Dots and Ties. Pitch: Minor Mode.
• 7. Music from the Literature.
• 8. Rhythm: Compound Meter. Pitch: Supertonic Traid. Pitch: Submediant and Mediant Triads. Pitch: Tenor Clef.
• 9. Rhythm: Triplets and Duplets.
• 10. Music from the Literature.
• 11. Rhythm: Syncopation. Pitch: Other Seventh Chords.
• Part II : COMMON PRACTICE TECHNIQUES: CHROMATIC.
• 12. Pitch: Decorative Chromaticism. Pitch: Inflected Scale Degrees. Pitch: Scalar Variants in Minor. Pitch: Modal Borrowing.
• 13. Music from the Literature.
• 14. Pitch: Secondary Dominants.
• 15. Pitch: Modulations to Closely Related Keys.
• 16. Rhythm: Quintuple Meters. Pitch: Chromaticism Implying Altered Chords; Modulation to Distantly Related Keys.
• 17. Music from the Literature.
• Part III : TWENTIETH-CENTURY TECHNIQUES.
• 18. Rhythm: Irregular Meters. Pitch: Diatonic Modes. Pitch: Changing Clefs. Part Music.
• 19. Rhythm: Changing Meters. Pitch: Pandiatonicism.
• 20. Rhythm: Syncopation Including Irregular and Mixed Meters. Pitch: Extended and Altered Tertian Harmony.
• 21. Pitch: Exotic Scales.
• 22. Rhythm: Complex Divisions of the Beat. Pitch: Quartal Harmony.
• 23. Rhythm: Polyrhythms and Polymeters. Pitch: Polyharmony and Polytonality.
• 24. Pitch: Interval Music.
• 25. Serial Music.
• 26. Music from the Literature.