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A new approach to sight singing / Sol Berkowitz, Gabriel Fontrier, Leo Kraft, Perry Goldstein and Edward Smaldone.

By: Berkowitz, Sol [author].
Contributor(s): Fontrier, Gabriel, 1918-1998 [author] | Kraft, Leo [author] | Goldstein, Perry, 1952- [author] | Smaldone, Edward M [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelScorePublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2024]Edition: Seventh edition.Description: xvi, scores (457 pages) ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781324071563 (spiral bound).Subject(s): Sight-singingDDC classification: S/2136
Contents:
Melodies -- Rhythm -- Duets -- Sing and play
Summary: "The classic sight-singing anthology, updated and expanded With the Seventh Edition, A New Approach to Sight Singing continues to offer the best collection of melodies for teaching sight singing. The text combines author-composed melodies and exercises with carefully selected excerpts from the literature, all arranged for an ideal pedagogical progression. New for this edition, the range of examples has been expanded considerably to encompass more popular styles and more music by women and composers of color"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Barcode
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending S/2136 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MTU Cork Module MUSC6005-Supplementary reading. MTU Cork Module MUSC8022 -Recommended reading. -- Sight-singing. 00219843
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

With the Seventh Edition, A New Approach to Sight Singing continues to offer the best collection of melodies for teaching sight singing. The text combines author-composed melodies and exercises with carefully selected excerpts from the literature, all arranged for an ideal pedagogical progression. New for this edition, the range of examples has been expanded considerably to encompass more popular styles and more music by women and composers of color.

Melodies -- Rhythm -- Duets -- Sing and play

"The classic sight-singing anthology, updated and expanded With the Seventh Edition, A New Approach to Sight Singing continues to offer the best collection of melodies for teaching sight singing. The text combines author-composed melodies and exercises with carefully selected excerpts from the literature, all arranged for an ideal pedagogical progression. New for this edition, the range of examples has been expanded considerably to encompass more popular styles and more music by women and composers of color"-- Provided by publisher.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Edward Smaldoneis 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.