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Music for Sight Singing (7th Edition) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Robert W. Ottman, Nancy Rogers
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
List Price: $87.40
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 850
Media: Spiral-bound
Edition: 7
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.7 x 1.1
ISBN: 0131872346
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
EAN: 9780131872349
ASIN: 0131872346
Publication Date: August 31, 2006
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Product Description
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.
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 Unfamiliar Melodies March 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 October 10, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book came in as selected from the site...everything was correct..and it's used well in my sight-singing class.
 Great service! September 30, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
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!
Great educational material! April 30, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful compilation of singable melodies from the folk and art music repertoires. Singing these melodies is far more appealing than just reading through purely made up solfege excercises. Each chapter contains melodies which are progressively harder and will help you, with practice and patience, to become a good sight reader, a skill any choral singer, composer, and musician in general should have.
Excellent, but what's the real excuse for the high price? April 11, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I agree with the reviewer who highlights the usefulness of the Ottman text; the additions and improvements (such as adding contemporary melodies) are indeed welcome. That's five stars for the book. Four for the high price.
However, I also understand the other reviewer's complaint about the very high price, particularly in the case of this particular sight-singing text. College book stores are frequently asked why their textbooks cost so much, and their current excuse is that "since textbooks often come bundled with CD-ROMs and other extras"--that is why the high price.
THIS price is just for a spiral-bound, soft-cover book. "1000 melodies," perhaps, but in a sight-singing text like this one most of these are simple and short (less than a page each). There are none of the above-mentioned "extras" bundled with it. This book, though excellent, has ALWAYS been, in my opinion, OVERPRICED.
The publisher is interested in profits, THAT IS their business, and that goal is in itself is not necessarily bad, when pursued honestly. We sometimes are oblivious that THAT is the main reason that standard college textbooks are constantly being revised (read: slightly altered) every couple of years. Older editions of the same textbooks would be just as effective, for instructive purposes. But business is business.
Addendum: Making money, in itself, is not a sin. In fact, isn't that one of the main reasons most people attend college, so that that they can become more effective at "making money"? Music majors have to recognize this fact, that their art has a business side. A great book on that subject is Angela Beeching's "Beyond Talent: Create a Successful Career in Music."
Finally, check out the comments about the business of music and art, made by the fictitious composer Richard Halley in Ayn Rand's 1957 novel, "Atlas Shrugged."
--Majok
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