The Follow-Up to the widely used Sight Reading Manual, Volume II offers more than 1,000 exercises to help your singers hone their
sight reading skills.
This book is a revision of Volume I with additional new and additional exercises designed to help you teach your students to sight read music. This book is merely a tool. You are the teacher! You decide which method best fits your needs when using these exercises.
Why Teach Sight Singing?
Sight singing is a skill that helps students understand music more fully.Students who learn to sight sing will be better equipped to sing when they leave school. Students will have more confidence in their singing and actually be better ensemble members. For you as the director, you will find that you will have more time to work on pieces since you dont have to spend so much time playing parts. And you will be able to learn more repertoire as well. It is a win/win situation.
A synopsis of Volume II:
Level I: All exercises in C, no rhythmic considerations.
Level II: Focus on rhythm. No melodic considerations
Level III: Rhythmic duets. No melodic considerations.
Level IV: Learning Time Signatures. All exercises in C.
Level V: Introduction to Accidentals
Level VI: D and Db Major
Level VII: E and Eb Major
Level VIII: F and F# Major
Level IX: G and Gb Major
Level X: A and Ab Major
Level XI: B and Bb Major
Level XII: Bass Clef
Level XIII: Two Part Exercises. SA and SB
Level XIV: Three Part Exercises. SSA and SAB
Level XV: Four Part Exercises
Teaching sight reading can be fun.
You can also teach music theory with the syllables. Teach them the natural minor scale from La to La. Teach them how to sing the melodic and the harmonic minor scales as well.
Teach them to sing triads: major, minor, diminished and augmented.
Teach them to sing the modes.
Teach them to sing triads and inversions.
Then show them how to write what they have sung. You will be surprised at how easy they will learn the concepts.
Sight singing is a skill development that takes practice and repetition. Do it every day and watch your singers grow both in knowledge and skill level, but also in their self confidence. No longer will they pick up a piece of music and look at it as if it is in a foreign language
Sample Pages:
12 sample pages from the Bruce Phelps Sight Reading Manual Volume I and II.
Bruce Phelps Sight Reading Manual Perusal Pages.pdf
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