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Title: Music for Sight Singing by Thomas E. Benjamin, Michael Horvit, Robert S. Nelson ISBN: 0-534-53299-3 Publisher: Schirmer Books Pub. Date: 18 January, 2000 Format: Spiral-bound Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: not the best choice
Comment: Of the three texts I have used to teach college-level ear training, this is definitely the weakest. Most of the material is composed by the authors, and it is often ugly, awkward stuff. The chapters could be definitely be sequenced in a more reasonable way (the minor mode, for example, is not introduced until Ch 6) and the level of difficulty is very poorly managed. Indeed, it doesn't seem like the authors have many good ideas about how students actually learn to sight-sing - many of their primitive early exercises (rhythms without meters, melodies that wander randomly up and down the scale) are actually much more difficult than later ones.

I would strongly recommend either Richard's Ottman's "Music for Sight-Singing" or Berkowitz-Fontrier-Kraft's "A New Approach to Sight Singing" over this book.

Rating: 4
Summary: This was a text for my college class on sight singing
Comment: This is a good text in aid for learning to sight sing. Many great excersizes are provided. Mary Kadderly, whose CDs are available on Amazon, used this in the class I attended. She highly recommends this book.

Rating: 4
Summary: Music fo Sight Singing
Comment: Love it, just great. superior book for serious musician wanting to improve their sight singing skill!

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