Sing at First Sight, Level 2

Sing at First Sight, Level 2
Author: Andy Beck
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 94
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457427817

Sing at First Sight is a sequential sight-singing curriculum for all choirs! This Level 2 book opens with a comprehensive Rhythm Review and Pitch Practice reinforcing the concepts studied in Sing at First Sight, Level 1. Each of the four units that follow features a helpful Getting Ready page, progressive Rhythm Readiness exercises, and thorough music-reading Lessons with practice Exercises, useful Hints, and motivating Challenge Exercises. Unit summary and assessment is easily achieved with choral excerpts from Alfred’s Choral Designs series, fun-filled Review games, and Evaluating Your Performance questions. Plus, Alfred has included a full-length Performance Piece to measure and celebrate your choir’s sight-singing progress, and then perform in concert. Includes: * Singing in Minor * Chromatics * 2-Part, 3-Part, and 4-Part Harmony * Major and Minor Intervals * Changing Meter * Sixteenth-Note Patterns

Sing at First Sight, Level 1

Sing at First Sight, Level 1
Author: Andy Beck
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2005-05-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457420115

A sequential sight-singing curriculum for all choirs. Each of the six units (containing four lessons each) clearly introduces new music reading concepts, reinforces those concepts with several rhythm and pitch exercises, motivates students with helpful hints and challenge exercises, and concludes with fun-filled review games and "Evaluating Your Performance" questions. The helpful "Getting Ready" pages (which precede each unit) are filled with music fundamentals, and for choirs who have never read music before, an optional "Before We Begin" chapter opens the book. And it's all a neatly laid out publication and a perfect fit for your students. From whole notes to sixteenth-note patterns, seconds to sevenths, key signatures, dynamics, articulations, and tempo markings; it's all here, and it's all logically ordered to insure student success! Spend just a few minutes a day with this book and your choir, too, will learn to "Sing at First Sight!"

Sing at First Sight

Sing at First Sight
Author: Andy Beck (Musician)
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2005
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780739037409

Augment your sight-singing curriculum with this well-written supplemental textbook which directly correlates to the lessons taught in level one of Alfred's popular Sing at First Sight method. Includes over 80 reproducible pages of additional exercises, activities, and assessments designed to strengthen the music reading skills of developing musicians. A listening CD provides ear-training activities and recorded accompaniments for the six end-of-unit songs. Plus, a handy appendix with easy-to-follow charts and diagrams of music fundamentals. The Reproducible Companion is highly effective when used with Sing at First Sight; on a routine basis after each of the 24 sequential lessons; as needed to master challenging musical concepts; or as a general review following the completion of the original textbook. Logically laid out in a 96-page spiral-bound book, ready for the photocopier! This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

Sight Singing Made Simple

Sight Singing Made Simple
Author: David Bauguess
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780793599738

This easy-to-use audio course for self or small group study is a step-by-step introduction to music reading skills. From the creator of The Jenson Sight Singing Course, this resource will be an effective tool for building student confidence and skill. Includes exercises on reading note and rest values, meter, echo drills, reading pitch from syllable letters and notes on the staff, movement by step and skip, key signatures, and clef signs. Available: Book, Cassette, CD, Book/CST Pak, Book/CD Pak, Book/CST Intro Pak (5 Books, 1 Cassette), Book/CD Intro Pak (5 Books, 1 CD). For Gr. 4-9.

Teach Yourself to Sing

Teach Yourself to Sing
Author: Karen Farnum Surmani
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1995
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780882846651

Learn at your own pace with this proven course for beginners. Learn proper breathing, posture, and warm-up techniques that will keep you singing for a lifetime with confidence and in a variety of styles. Includes practice exercises, demonstrations by professional singers and motivating accompaniments to sing along with.

Successful Sight-singing

Successful Sight-singing
Author: Nancy Telfer
Publisher: San Diego, Calif. : N.A. Kjos Music, c1992-c1993.
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1992
Genre: Sight-singing
ISBN:

Give your choir members the skills needed to sight-sing by themselves, away from a piano or other singers with Successful Sight-Singing. Organized into very short lessons, Successful Sight-Singing can be presented in five to ten minutes of each rehearsal. The Conductor's Edition provides a detailed plan for implementing a comprehensive program of vocal production through warm-ups. The large diagnostic chart lists vocal production problems, possible causes, and your choice of remedies.

A New Approach to Sight Singing

A New Approach to Sight Singing
Author: Sol Berkowitz
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 319
Release: 1986
Genre: Sight-singing
ISBN: 9780393954654

Now in its Fourth Edition, A New Approach to Sight Singing continues to lead the pack with its innovative and class-tested method of teaching the four-semester sight singing sequence. The authors "new approach" places the act of singing melodies at sight within the context of musicianship as a whole.

Music for Sight Singing

Music for Sight Singing
Author: Robert W. Ottman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Sight-reading (Music)
ISBN: 9780205760084

"...Developing the "mind's ear"--the ability to imagine how music sounds without first playing it on an instrument--is essential to any musician and sight singing (in conjunction with ear training and other studies in musicianship) is invaluable in reaching this fundamental goal...[This book has an] abundance of meticulously organized melodies drawn from the literature of composed music and a wide range of the world's folk music...Each chapter methodically introduces elements one at a time, steadily increasing in difficulty while providing a musically meaningful framework around which students can hone their skills..."--preface.

Successful Warmups

Successful Warmups
Author: Nancy Telfer
Publisher: San Diego, Calif. : Neil A. Kjos Music Company
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1995-06-01
Genre: Choral singing
ISBN: 9780849741753

Sing at First Sight . . . More Melodies: Reproducible Exercises for Sight-Singing Practice, Reproducible Book & Data CD

Sing at First Sight . . . More Melodies: Reproducible Exercises for Sight-Singing Practice, Reproducible Book & Data CD
Author: Andy Beck
Publisher: Sing at First Sight
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781470615628

Augment your sight-singing curriculum with this supplemental exercise book that directly correlates to levels one and two of Alfred Music's popular Sing at First Sight method. Every melody in this reproducible resource appears in both treble and bass clef, and the Data CD includes digital files of the entire book for printing and projecting. More Melodies! is highly effective when used on a routine basis after each of the sequential lessons, as needed for additional drill to master challenging concepts, or as a general review following the completion of the original textbooks.