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Music for Sight Singing (8th Edition) (MyMusicLab Series) |  | Authors: Robert Ottman, Nancy Rogers
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
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Media: Spiral-bound
Edition: 8
Pages: 448
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0205760082
Dewey Decimal Number: 780
EAN: 9780205760084
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Music for Sight Singing, 8/e is the best-selling book for Music Theory students. It features over 1700 examples, many drawn from “real music” that professors value and students enjoy singing. With the passing of author Robert Ottman, new author Nancy Rogers has added new vitality to the book, introducing exercises to develop creativity as well as to build basic skills.
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 An excellent resource for developing an essential musical skill January 26, 2007
Craig Matteson (Ann Arbor, MI)
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
Typically, music students resist their music theory courses and enjoy the sight singing exercises associated with them even less. My experience as a student and as a teacher leads me to believe that this is usually because by the time the students first get around to learning this skill, they are already confident musicians on their instruments or have learned to sing some other way. To have to learn a new skill from scratch is disturbing and seems unnecessary to them. However, learning to sight sing brings many benefits.
Singing music helps one internalize the music more fully. One also develops a greater confidence with pitch than having it done in an instrument. It also helps one learn to sing through one's instrument - that is, to play even more musically. And by developing strategies to sing chromatic music, one has to think through the relationships within the piece. Once the skills are more fully developed, one can learn to come to terms with a new piece of music quite quickly. Therefore, one becomes not only more professional, the whole of one's musical experience deepens.
We used the second edition of Ottman's book when I was an undergrad in music in the late seventies and early eighties. This seventh edition is a much richer and more useable book. There are more than a thousand melodies, all nicely arranged to teach something specific. They are actual melodies from the literature rather than some abstract theoretical nothing. And there are lots of rhythmic exercises, so the student can gain skills in becoming more precise in rhythm and especially in rests (you know, letting the silence be silent). A new chapter with melodies from the 20th century is also a nice addition. The new edition also adds some exercises with structured improvisation for the student to experiment with his or her own melodies.
The spiral binding actually makes the book more durable and useable. It lays flat on your piano or music stand and the spine won't break and the pages won't be falling out. The print is crisp and clear which makes reading easy. This is important for a book you will be using in your theory courses for several terms.
Not only is this great for college students, I think high school and private music teachers would do well by their students to use this as part of their regular music lessons. Their students might fight it a bit (they always seem to), but they will become better musicians and more musical students if they develop the skill to sight sing.
Great educational material! April 30, 2007
Javier F. Marquez (Salem, MA USA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful compilation of singable melodies from the folk and art music repertoires. Singing these melodies is far more appealing than just reading through purely made up solfege excercises. Each chapter contains melodies which are progressively harder and will help you, with practice and patience, to become a good sight reader, a skill any choral singer, composer, and musician in general should have.
Sight Singing February 14, 2010
Benjamin I. Andrews
What I asked for, bent rings, old edition so have to use a classmate's book to figure out how the numbers are related.
Great review!!! February 12, 2009
ThatTechGuy
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Product arrived in a timely manner and in good condition. Would do business with again. A++++
Great service! September 30, 2007
Lupe Ojeda (California)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
I received this book well before the due date which was fortunate as my class had already begun. Thank you for your prompt attention and action!
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