Music for Sight Singing

by Thomas E. Benjamin

This text presents music that is challenging, yet not overwhelming to young musicians. Drawing on their own extensive experience as composers and arrangers who adapt music for their own students, the authors have struck a balance between rigor and accessibility.

Genres: Music, Reference

532 pages, Spiral-bound

First published April 1, 1984

Reviews

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Having attempted to create original material for a college-level sight singing class, I must admit that this book would have (and has since) saved me months of frustration. The music in this book is more than sufficient to create several sight-singing courses and I trust the folks who compiled it. There is a great range in both difficulty and complexity, and all meters, key signatures, and even "exotic" scales (their words) are included; the music progresses from single line to polyphonic; and rather than adhere to a rigid methodology, only short suggestions of how to approach the work are offered. There are more than enough examples for every type of student and I think this book would be a great supplement to other instrumentalists, as well, covering sight-reading skills that could also include comfort with different clefs, transposition, and melodic, harmonic, and contrapuntal figures that might be different than the standard repertoire for one's instrument.