Using an abundance of meticulously organized melodies drawn from the literature of composed music and a wide range of the world’s folk music, Ottman and Rogers provide the most engaging and comprehensive Sight Singing text on the market. Arranging its 21 chapters to study both pitch and rhythm, this book presents melodies and over 1200 exercises that enable readers to develop the skills of reading pitch, reading rhythm, and combining these two essential elements. The Seventh Edition contains 30% more rhythmic exercises and new structured improvisation exercises. For professionals with a career in music, music education, and composition.
Music for Sight Singing I never recieved my book and Amazon still has not refunded me for cancelled orders. I am extremely dissatisfied and will not use Amazon in the future.
Lots of great melodies.... ...but it doesn't make any sense to pay so much money for a bunch of melodies that ottman didn't even write!
Unfamiliar Melodies Students don't like to practice the material out of this book because they often find it boring and difficult. There are many more beautiful and efficient ways to hone ones aural skills. The main thing is to practice, but if the material is a turn off practicing is unlikely.
An article out of the Journal of Research in Music Education, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Autumn, 2004), pp. 206-217 by Michele L. Henry titled The Use of Targeted Pitch Skills for Sight-Singing Instruction in the Choral Rehearsal states there is no significant difference between singers taught targeted pitch skills with unfamiliar melodies and singers taught targeted pitch skills with familiar songs.
Henry's article combined with the boredom brought on by the abstractness of Ottman's book makes me believe training with familiar music is more effective. Maybe something like the Classical Fake Book published by Hal Leonard would not only help the music student with aural skills, but would also familiarize the student with the serious repertoire. Maybe tv themes, hits, anything one likes that they can get sheet music for is better than not practicing at all which is far too common with Ottman's book.
Ottman's book is repackaged in a nice shiny overpriced 7th edition, but other than moving things around the material is unchanged. All new approaches like that in the book Progressive Sight Singing by Carol Krueger should be explored. The bulkiness of the book may also make students turn away from it. It's not one specific melody in the text that is boring. It's that if a teachers requires students to take it upon themselves to get something out of it with very little structure and specific spoon fed guidance they wont. That is unless they are so advanced they can already sight read almost every melody in the book, but then why get it at all.
Good The book came in as selected from the site...everything was correct..and it's used well in my sight-singing class.
Great service! 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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