A New Approach to Sight Singing

With the Sixth Edition, A New Approach to Sight Singing continues to offer the best collection of melodies for sight sining. The text combines author-composed examples with music carefully selected from the literature for an ideal pedagogical progression. The text is organized into four chapters by activity type - Melodies, Rhythm, Duets, and Sing and Play. Within each chapter, activities are organized into sections by difficulty, so finding the right activity for a class is simple. This organization gives instructors the flexibility to focus on the types of activities that interest them and their students. New in the Sixth Edition: Melodies from the literature and author-composed melodies have been combined into a single chapter for an ideal pedagogical progression. Throughout the text, additional simple exercises have been added to improve pacing. Twentieth-century materials have been carefully revised to develop students' skills more gradually. -- From back cover.

Об авторе (2017)

Perry Goldstein is professor of music at Stony Brook University, where he is currently chairman of the Department of Music. He is responsible for all aspects of the undergraduate and graduate musicianship programs and also teaches music composition, theory, and analysis. His teaching has been recognized by Stony Brook University's President's Award for Excellence in Teaching and by the State University of New York's Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is the author of Rudiments of Music: A Concise Guide to Music Theory and has written about music for the Library of Congress as well as the New York Times and many other publications. He is an active composer, with nineteen recordings to his credit and performances worldwide. Edward Smaldone is professor of music at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and was director of the School of Music from 2002 to 2016. An active composer, he is the recipient of the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as grants and awards from ASCAP, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Charles Ives Center for the Arts, and the American Music Center. Smaldone's music has been performed by the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Denver Chamber Orchestra, the Memphis Symphony, the EOS Repertoire Orchestra (Beijing), and many other ensembles throughout the United States, Canada, Asia and Europe and is recorded on the Naxos, CRI, New World Records, Ablaze, and Capstone labels. Smaldone has more than thirty years of college teaching experience in the areas of music theory and musicianship.

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