Highlights
The Anthology for Sight Singing offers more than 1,200 short musical excerpts from a diverse range of real music literature. Comprehensive enough to be used alone, the Anthology is meticulously coordinated with the Manual for Ear Training and Sight Singing,, providing excerpts directly integrated with the topics covered in each chapter. Featuring music from the Middle Ages to the present, the anthology provides the material students need for a thorough and comprehensive curriculum in sight singing.
All selections drawn from real music literature.
The pieces included in the anthology have been carefully selected to introduce students to the broadest possible range of real music, preparing them for the diversity of styles and genres that musicians face in study and performance. Drawn primarily from the common practice period but including music from the Middle Ages to the present, this diverse collection offers traditional and popular repertories and a generous selection of American and female composers. The anthology uses well-known excerpts to help students learn new concepts through music that is already familiar, while lesser-known excerpts provide many unfamiliar sight-singing melodies to practice and test skills. Vocal and instrumental music in all major genres are well represented.
Progressively graded organization reinforces concepts as students learn.
The anthology’s excerpts are organized in sequence from simple to difficult and are coordinated with the learning sequence used in the Manual for Ear Training and Sight Singing. Each new element is clearly announced by a heading and followed first by excerpts that introduce that element in simple, isolated contexts and then through more complex contexts. This provides students with more real-music examples that focus on specific musical elements than any other textbook in the field.
Music in its original context.
In order to teach students to read the variety of musical sources they will encounter as professional musicians, each excerpt appears as it does in its original context. Examples are printed at their original pitch and retain their original tempo marks, dynamics, articulation, phrasing, beaming, and orthography.
Textual authenticity and reliability.
The anthology’s examples are excerpted from the most authentic versions possible, usually an Ur-text edition based on sources overseen or approved by the composer or other authoritative source. Each excerpt of composed literature is labeled with the name of the composer, the work (including movement number and measure numbers), and, if known, the date of the composition. Folk music is labeled with song name and country or region of origin.
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