Highlights
A Variety of Activities
- One-part excercises and two-part exercises for one performer improve a student’s coordination.
- Ensemble exercises with two, three, or more parts are ideal for performance by the whole class or a few students.
- Exercises that review meters, rhythm patterns, and concepts from previous chapters are given in each chapter.
- Worksheets enable the student to rewrite previously learned rhythms in meters with a different beat unit.
- A self-test at the end of each chapter quizzes students on the material covered.
- Three chapters of excerpts from music literature, from the medieval period to the present, feature many different styles of rhythmic notation.
Enhanced Pedagogy
Rhythm Reading offers concise and clear explanations of important terms, practices, and concepts, as well as conducting patterns for all beat groupings. Helpful performance hints precede many of the exercises, and the more difficult rhythm patterns are introduced in a step-by-step process. In addition, the author suggests alternative ways that the exercises may be performed in class.
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