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Zoltan Kodaly said that children can best learn to sing in tune through two-part unaccompanied singing, and this should start at a very early age - possibly even first grade. This set has been developed in the hope of building that skill and developing children's taste for a cappella singing. While intended for classroom use, these songs can also be used with elementary choruses. Of the 27 songs in this collection, 22 have been kept in the pentatonic idiom. The songs appear in approximate order of difficulty.

46 Two-Part American Folk Songs

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This versatile resource presents many sight-singing exercises for early practice in reading standard notation. The two volumes are full of familiar folk and classical melodies set with easy two- and three-part harmony parts for students to read in a variety of ways. Both volumes include a helpful teacher's edition, and are available in a fully reproducible digital download format that can be used year after year.

Easy Beginnings in Note Reading, Vol. 2

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The time-tested top-selling classic sight-singing course has been utilized by choirs from middle school through college level for many years. Encompassing a short, accelerated approach, it is designed to help non-reading singers quickly integrate into a choir that already possesses sight-reading skills. Each drill is a day's lesson, focusing on the skips or steps surrounding a particular pitch level. The High School Sight-Singer and The University Sight-Singer are completely identical in contents, except for title and cover. Fully reproducible and available as a digital download, these volumes present years of sight-singing material at budget-stretching price.

The High School Sight-Singer

Unison PDF Complete Set (Vols. 1-5)

These reproducible interactive lessons offer an exciting new approach to learning the basic elements of music. A lesson a day or a lesson a week - it's your choice. Individual students can use this as a self-paced series, or it can be used in a general classroom setting at a pace guided by the teacher. This solfege-based course introduces all musical concepts through concise lessons, followed by short exercises for immediate reinforcement. Ear training exercises include rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic recognition and dictation based on the material introduced in each unit. A teacher's answer key provides the answers to all exercises, reviews, quizzes, and exams to assist with graded assessment. Graded assignments, quizzes, and exams will make your grading system more objective. Available in two separate volumes or as a complete set, this fully reproducible downloadable course can be used year after year.

Music Theory for Choirs

Unison PDF Complete Set (Vols. 1 & 2)

If your choir can sing up and down the scale, they're ready to dive into this series! Each exercise is limited to a brief eight measures, so one or two a day should easily fit into your available time. Each volume contains 30 pages of choral exercises, presented in both open and closed score, progressing sequentially from completely step-wise and diatonic melodies to more difficult intervallic leaps and rhythms in virtually all keys, both major and la-based minor. The Three-Part edition volumes are available in three different versions: SAB, SSA and TTB. This series can also be used by solo singers or by choir members on an individual basis and all five volumes are fully compatible with the parallel unison, two- or four- part versions. Fully reproducible, and available as a digital download, this comprehensive series provides an exhaustive library of sight-singing material that is useful year after year.

Let's Get Started!

SAB PDF Complete Set (Vols. 1-5)

Round singing is an effective and enjoyable way to teach singers to sing independent parts. Rounds help us hear vertically, so that participants can become skilled harmonizers in no time. In these sets, the rhythms are simple and ranges are usually an octave or less. Forty-eight of the rounds in each volume are completely diatonic. The few chromatics that do occur in the remaining five are limited to easy, stepwise patterns.

Rounds for All Ages

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If your choir can sing up and down the scale, they're ready to dive into this series! Each exercise is limited to a brief eight measures, so one or two a day should easily fit into your available time. Each volume contains 30 pages of choral exercises, presented in both open and closed score, progressing sequentially from completely step-wise and diatonic melodies to more difficult intervallic leaps and rhythms in virtually all keys, both major and la-based minor. The Four-Part edition volumes are available in three different versions: SATB, SSAA and TTBB. This series can also be used by solo singers or by choir members on an individual basis and all five volumes are fully compatible with the parallel unison, two- or three- part versions. Fully reproducible, and available as a digital download, this comprehensive series provides an exhaustive library of sight-singing material that is useful year after year.

SATB PDF Complete Set (Vols. 1-5)

Geared perfectly for young, changing voices, this series was written specifically for choirs that need simple rhythmic exercises with a sequential progression of solfege skills. To accommodate choirs with changing voices (cambiata), each mixed choir version contains one voice part that stays within the cambiata range. This five-volume series is available in SATB, SA(T)B, SAB, SSA, TCB, TTB, and TBB editions. Each edition is offered in a fully reproducible digital download format for continued use year after year.

The Easy Rhythms Sight-Singing Series

If your choir can sing up and down the scale, they're ready to dive into this series! Each volume of this flexible series contains 300 exercises that can progress sequentially from completely step-wise and diatonic melodies to more difficult intervallic leaps and rhythms in virtually all keys. The Unison edition volumes are available in three different versions: Treble clef, Bass clef, Cambiata (all melodies remain within the limited cambiata range), or Treble/Bass. This series can also be used by solo singers or by choir members on an individual basis and all five volumes are fully compatible with the parallel unison, three- or four- part versions. Fully reproducible, and available as a digital download, this comprehensive series provides an exhaustive library of sight-singing material that is useful year after year.

Unison PDF Treble Clef - Complete (Vols. 1-5)

This series was designed to be useful in all teaching situations, from middle school on up. The range is limited to one octave - C to C - so that everyone sings in a comfortable range throughout. The flexible, modular design of this series allows you to concentrate on just the levels of complexity you want and adapt them for any kind of choir configuration. Ideal for use in a music curriculum spanning several grade levels. Beginning with stepwise, diatonic quarter notes, it's written polyphonically, so that every part is melodious and develops independence. Each exercise is written so that it can be performed in an unison, 2-part, or 3-part format. Since the lines of each exercise are interchangeable, each exercise can be sung three times, each voice singing a different line each time. The original volumes were available for treble clef choirs with a separate edition for bass clef singers and a combined version, but SAB, TTB and TBB versions were also added. Fully reproducible and available as a digital download, this reusable resource works year after year in a variety of formats.

Steps to Harmony

Unison PDF Treble Clef (SSA) - Complete Set (Vols. 1-5)

If your choir can sing up and down the scale, they're ready to dive into this series! Each volume of this flexible series contains 150 duet (or 300 unison)exercises that progress sequentially from completely step-wise and diatonic melodies to more difficult intervallic leaps and rhythms in virtually all keys. The Two-Part edition volumes are available in two different versions: SA (all treble clef) or Two-Part Mixed or TB (treble clef and bass clef). This series can also be used by solo singers or by choir members on an individual basis and all five volumes are fully compatible with the parallel unison, three- or four- part versions. Fully reproducible, and available as a digital download, this comprehensive series provides an exhaustive library of sight-singing material that is useful year after year.

Two-Part PDF Complete Set (Vols. 1-5)

Abbreviated and accelerated, this method for teaching sight-singing is specifically designed for school, church, and community choirs that only meet once a week. Using standard tunes that many singers already know, this method develops a connection between familiar melodies and the solfege system. The short, flexible units include extra material that singers can practice at home to reinforce the acquired skills and self-assess. The many game-like learning activities are fun and encourage confidence and further progress. Fully reproducible and available as a digital download, this material will be useful for your choirs year after year in a variety of formats.

The Weekly Sight-Singer Vol. 2

A complete 3-volume method for reading rhythms, starting with basic notation and progressing step-by-step to the most advanced rhythmic skills. Perfect for the elementary classroom, children learn and practice rhythms through slap/clap/tap and speaking. Volume one explores notes, rests, and simple meters. Volume two explores compound meter and syncopation. Volume three explores tuplets, double dots, no meter and irregular and shifting meters. Reproducible PDFs.

You've Got Rhythm

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Presented in two volumes, available separately or as a complete set, singers are taken through the sequence of the Kodaly approach to sight-singing. The first volume is 200 Progressive Pentatonic Exercises which begins with Sol-Mi interval and gradually progresses to include the  complete pentatonic scale. The rhythmic content progresses similarly, beginning with the quarter note, and gradually adding additional note values. This volume also includes exercises centered on La (for minor mode practice), as well as other modal centers. A number of the exercises in this volume may be sung together as partner songs, and some as rounds, offering an effective means for developing vocal independence. The second volume is 175 Progressive Diatonic Exercises, which completes the progression by systematically adding Fa and Ti and more complex rhythms. Fully reproducible and available as a digital download, these volumes are reusable year after year in your music classroom.

Progressive Kodaly Exercises

The classic sight-singing guide Melodia is now available in a flexible fully reproducible digital download format for use year after year. Purchase the entire course, or just a section or two. In 200 pages, and over 1,500 unison and two-part melodious exercises, the series leads the student from the simplest of scales to the most complex music a choir is likely to encounter in traditional music.The normal range of average voices is carefully observed. The two-part exercises are all written so that they may be inverted, the bass part being sung by treble voices, and the treble part by the bass voices; or they may be sung by treble voices only or by tenor-bass voices only. The first series consists of 424 melodies of gradually increasing complexity that guide your choir through the sight-reading process, starting with simple scales, and progressing to complex, diatonic, stepwise melodies. Subsequent series develop reading skills further, methodically introducing chromatics, intervals, rhythms and modulations. Whether you use Melodia as your primary method, or as a supplement to other methods, you’ll find plenty of reusable material suitable for any level of sight-reading development.

Melodia

PDF Complete set (Series 1-11)

Round singing is an effective and enjoyable way to teach singers to sing independent parts. In these sets, the rhythms are simple, and ranges are usually an octave or less. Based on the wit and wisdom of Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack, this begins with a volume of progressively arranged pentatonic rounds followed by a second volume that builds skills to include the full diatonic scale. Reproducible PDFs.

Poor Richard's Rounds

Reproducible PDF Complete Set (Vols. 1 & 2)

Liberate your choir from dependence on solfege and help them to move on to this next level of musicianship with this series that draws its texts from a variety of American poets, historical figures and national documents. These compositions are short, yet musically satisfying and textually meaningful. Not intended to be a substitute for systematic solfege training, rather this series assumes a reasonable ability in solfege as a prerequisite. Available in four different editions for three-part choirs - SAB, SSA, TTB and TBB - the five volume series progress from easier exercises to the more complex. Special attention is also given to make each exercise appropriate for young changing voices, and the ranges are kept within those parameters. Fully reproducible and available as a digital download, this series will keep your choir singing for years to come.

National Treasures

Your choir will thoroughly enjoy this break from their sight-singing routine! You don’t even have to tell them that they are improving their rhythm skills, as they challenge themselves to keep together in perfectly unison speech, through humorous, miniature dramatic scenes in which they become the characters. Additionally, each composition is entertaining enough and of sufficient duration to include in your concerts as a novelty number that audiences will love! The texts are little rhythmic encounters from everyday life that set up an innovative, fun approach to practicing rhythm and improving rhythmic sight-singing skills. Starting with the simple unison exercises, the series gradually progresses to challenging rhythmic excursions for up to four voice parts in the subsequent volumes. Available as fully reproducible digital downloads, this series provides quality educational material that will last for years and years!

Happy Rap!

PDF Complete Set (Vols. 1-5)

For nearly 200 years, the 371 four-part chorales (371 vierstimmige Choralgesange) of Johann Sebastian Bach have enjoyed popularity and usefulness in music education. This classic collection has been used in choral classrooms for years and is especially accessible because the chorales have been reordered from the easiest to most chromatically complex in a four volume set. The parts are presented in open score format, instead of the customary keyboard reduction, for easier reading for choral students, and all measures are numbered for convenient rehearsal. The entire collection is presented in a reproducible digital download format for economy and utility.

371 Bach Chorales

SATB PDF Complete Set (Vol. 1-4)

The University Sight-Singer

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