The most innovative and user-friendly introduction to sight singing. Widely used for over two decades, A New Approach to Sight Singing contains original melodies composed by the authors for the express goal of teaching sight singing. The new edition retains the user-friendly organization professors and students love. New to the Fifth Edition are more exercises in atonal and post-tonal twentieth-century idioms, a section of unpitched rhythmic exercises, and a topical index that makes key concepts easy to find.' Synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. About the Author: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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Condition: Neu. Neuware - Widely used for over two decades, A New Approach to Sight Singing contains original melodies composed by the authors for the express goal of teaching sight singing. The new edition retains the user-friendly organization professors and students love. New to the Fifth Edition are more exercises in atonal and post-tonal twentieth-century idioms, a section of unpitched rhythmic exercises, and a topical index that makes key concepts easy to find. Seller Inventory # 503.
Page/Link:Page URL:HTML link:The Free Library. Retrieved Aug 22 2019 from503A new approach to sight singing, 5th ed.Berkowitz, Sol et al.W.W. Norton2011410 pages$78.75Spiral BindingMT870Berkowitz et al. (music, Queen's College of the City U. Of NewYork and Stony Brook U.) present a textbook that instructs undergraduateand graduate music students in sight singing skills. Exercises increasein difficulty within each chapter and include melodies, rhythms, andduets (expanded for this edition) mostly composed for the book.
Thisedition has more basic melodies and complex exercises, expandedsing-and-play exercises with excerpts from standard classical and folkrepertories, expanded explanations, and new chapters of unpitchedrhythms and atonal and post-tonal twentieth-century idioms. The themeand variations chapter has been omitted.(c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR).