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Jack Boyd: Teaching Choral Sight Reading

Half Step/Whole Step: Teaching the Basic Building Blocks

Step-wise Melodies: Extending the Range

Major and Minor Thirds: The First Skips

Discovering the Whole Tone Scale

Expanding the Rhythmic Vocabulary

Introduction of the Bass Clef

The Perfect Intervals: Tuning the Fourth and Fifth

Teaching the "Peg Legged" Time Signatures: 5/4 and 5/8

Double Sharps and Double Flats: The Problem Accidentals

Expanding the Ranges

The "Devil in Music"

Combining the Complications: Altered Tones, Triplets, Doubled Accidentals

The Big Jumps: the Major and Minor Sixth

Expanding the Keys to Five Sharps and Five Flats

Introducing the C Clef

Continued Complications: Changing Time Signatures, Chromaticism and the C Clef

Singing All Intervals and All Keys

Teaching Jazz Rhythms and Intervals

Introducing the New Notation

Anything Goes!

This book is specifically designed for the high school choral director who is having problems with sight reading among their choristers. This book presents the vocabulary of singing in a logical, planned manner that enables singers to gradually acquire the ability to sing moderately difficult music in two or more parts at sight.

6520 01 Book $16.95

209 Pages | Spiral-bound | 7 x 10 | Click for more Sightsinging material

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