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McGill & Stevens: A Singer's Resource for Competitive Sightsinging

Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
Baubles, Bangles and Beads
Between The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea
Black Coffee
Blame It On My Youth
Body And Soul
Break It To Me Gently
A Day in the Life of a Fool
Deep Purple
Don't Worry 'Bout Me
Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
Do You Know What It means To Be In New Orleans?
Don't Get Around Much Any More
Free Again
Good Morning Heartache
Here's To Life
How Did He Look?
How Little We Know
I Ain't Got Nothing But The Blues
I Can Dream Can't I?
I Didn't Know About You
I Just Found Out About Love
I Love A Piano
I Should Care
I'll Be Seeing You
I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise
I'm Always Drunk In San Francisco
I'm Beginning To See The Light
Keeping Out of Mischief Now
The Last Dance
Let's Stay Together
Mama
Maybe You'll Be There
Mean to Me
Memories of You
More Than You Know
My Favorite Year
My Foolish Heart
No One Ever Tells You
The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else
The People You Never Get To Love
Poor Butterfly
Rough Ridin'
Shiny Stockings
Taking A Chance On Love
Teach Me To Love
That Sunday, That Summer
There Will Never be Another You
There'll Be Some Changes Made
Too Close For Comfort
Twisted
Unchain My Heart
Walking Happy
Watermelon Man
We'll Be Together
What A Diffrence A Day Makes
What A Wonderful World
What Now My Love?
When The Sun Comes Out
Where Are You?
Wild Is The Wind
Willow Weep For Me
Without A Song
Without You
You Go To My Head
Your Mind Is On Vacation

This sight reading workbook targets the secondary choir student preparing for vocal sight reading auditions. There are several sight reading methods that could be used. These include moveable do solfege, fixed do solfege, numbers, etc. It is the hope of the authors that with daily usage, this workbook will build the singer's confidence and sharpen sight reading skills as they prepare for sight reading auditions. The eight-measure exercises are a combination of original compositions and prior sight reading audition examples. The key signatures were selected to fit the comfortable vocal range of each voice part. The helpful hints are compilations of nearly fifty years of successful secondary choral teaching. This workbook is designed to prepare secondary choir students for sight reading auditions by providing them with materials for individual study. The book is designed to give the student three exercises a day, five days a week for eighteen weeks. This is the equivalent of a school semester. Each week's exercises progress in difficulty. The warm-up exercises are designed with two possible uses in mind. First, the novice will find the easier exercises very helpful in developing confidence and security in the sight reading process. The exercises have no intervals larger than a major 2nd, and therefore, develop strength in sequencing syllables together. Second, the exercises also are intended to be used by the experienced reader any time during the 90 day program for review or confidence building. Rehearsal CD: The CD track number beside each exercise refers the singer to the correct keyed accompanied track for that particular exercise. On each track, the singer will hear a tonic triad in broken style, followed by the starting pitch, then thirty seconds of silence. After the period of silence, the tonic triad in broken style will be replayed, followed by the starting pitch.

6665 01 Songbook $14.95