Music for Sight Singing, Student Edition

For courses in sight singing and music theory.

The most celebrated, engaging, and musical sight-singing text on the market

A freshly updated edition of the classic musical textbook, Music for Sight Singing, 10th Edition, is structured around organized melodies, drawn from the literature of composed music and a wide range of the world’s folk music. Real music exercises allow readers to practice sight singing and develop their “mind’s ear,” the ability to imagine how music sounds without first playing it on an instrument. The new edition includes even more melodies and several new topics; improved introductions to minor keys, pre-dominant leaps, and chromaticism; and increased use of bass and C clefs — while retaining the simple-to-complex arrangement that lays the foundation for success.

Nancy Rogers is an Associate Professor of Music Theory at Florida State University. With research interests including music cognition and its pedagogical implications, Dr. Rogers has presented papers at national and international conferences, including meetings of the Society for Music Theory, the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, and the Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology. She was a keynote speaker at the 2009 Musical Ear conference held at Indiana University. Several of her recent publications may be found in Music Theory Online, the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, and Em Pauta.

Professor Rogers received her PhD in music theory from the Eastman School of Music; she is also a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. She has served as President of Music Theory Southeast, Secretary of the Society for Music Theory, and Treasurer of Music Theory Midwest. Before coming to Florida State University, she served on the faculties of Northwestern University, the University of Iowa, and Lawrence University.

PART I.

MELODY: DIATONIC INTERVALS

RHYTHM: DIVISION OF THE BEAT

1. RHYTHM: Simple Meters; The Beat and Its Division into Two Parts

2. MELODY: Stepwise Melodies, Major Keys

RHYTHM: Simple Meters; The Beat and Its Division into Two Parts

3. MELODY: Leaps within the Tonic Triad, Major Keys

RHYTHM: Simple Meters

4. MELODY: Leaps within the Tonic Triad, Major Keys

RHYTHM: Compound Meters; The Beat and Its Division into Three Parts

5. MELODY: Minor Keys; Leaps within the Tonic Triad

RHYTHM: Simple and Compound Meters

6. MELODY: Leaps within the Dominant Triad (V); Major and Minor Keys

RHYTHM: Simple and Compound Meters

7. THE C CLEFS Alto and Tenor Clefs

8. MELODY: Further Use of Diatonic Leaps

RHYTHM: Simple and Compound Meters

9. MELODY: Leaps within the Dominant Seventh Chord (V7); Other Diatonic Seventh Leaps

RHYTHM: Simple and Compound Meters

PART II.
MELODY: DIATONIC INTERVALS

RHYTHM: SUBDIVISION OF THE BEAT

10. RHYTHM The Subdivision of the Beat: The Simple Beat into Four Parts, The Compound Beat into Six Parts

11. MELODY: Leaps within the Tonic and Dominant Triads

RHYTHM: Subdivision in Simple and Compound Meters

12. MELODY: Further Use of Diatonic Leaps

RHYTHM: Subdivision in Simple and Compound Meters

PART III.
MELODY: CHROMATICISM

RHYTHM: FURTHER RHYTHMIC PRACTICES

13. RHYTHM and Syncopation Melody

14. RHYTHM and Triplet Division of Undotted Note Values;

MELODY: Duplet Division of Dotted Note Values

15. MELODY: Chromaticism (I): Chromatic Embellishing Tones; Tonicizing the Dominant; Modulation to the Key of the Dominant or the Relative Major

16. MELODY: Chromaticism (II): Tonicization of Any Diatonic Triad; Modulation to Any Closely Related Key

17. RHYTHM and Changing Meter Signatures; The Hemiola;

MELODY: Less Common Meter Signatures

18. RHYTHM and Further Subdivision of the Beat;

MELODY: Notation in Slow Tempi

19. MELODY Chromaticism (III): Additional Uses of Chromatic Tones; Remote Modulation

PART IV. THE DIATONIC MODES AND RECENT MUSIC

20. MELODY The Diatonic Modes

21. RHYTHM and The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

MELODY

APPENDIX A: RHYTHM SOLMIZATION

APPENDIX B: PITCH SOLMIZATION

APPENDIX C: MUSICAL TERMS

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