Please click on the link below to access the sight singing assignment for next week. You must bring the assignment to your sight singing lesson. You may choose to print it out, or to view it on a laptop or tablet device. Please do not attempt to read the assignment from your phone in the lesson. This seldom results in a high score.
Sightreading The coming week’s sight singing lesson will feature sightreading. The difficulty level will be approximately that of melodies we were studying back in Unit 3 and Unit 4. Your instructor will give you a moment to practice the sightreading before you perform it. As always, take careful note of the clef, the key signature, the time signature, and so on. What is the beat note? How many beats are in the measure? Where are do, mi, and sol, and other “signposts”? How is the beat divided? Sing and conduct confidently, aiming for a steady tempo, fluent solfege, and perfect intonation.
Prepared Examples: melodies with tones from the tonic and dominant triads; major and minor keys; simple and compound meter By now, you should have the solfege of the tonic and dominant triads – do-mi-sol and sol-ti-re – firmly committed to memory. This week’s melodies will feature tones from chords I and V (our tonic and dominant triads), illustrating that we can gauge the implied harmony of a melody even when no harmonic line is present.