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Description
- An approach based on self-learning and recognition of rhythmic and melodic patterns
- Original tunes rather than abstract sight-reading exercises
- 237 carefully graded pieces in a range of musical styles
- Nine sections ranging from open strings to extensions and slurs
- Each section concludes with a set of duets and accompanied pieces for practice of ensemble sight-reading
- Tunes progress to all key signatures up to four sharps and three flats
- Preliminary towards grade 4
Content
To the pupil: why sight-reading?
Section 1: Open strings
Section 2: Open strings and 1st finger
Section 3: 3rd-finger notes, key signatures and rests
Section 4: 4th-finger notes, quavers and the 4/4 time signature
Section 5: 2nd-finger notes, accidentals and slurs
Section 6: Ties, dotted notes, bow markings and the anacrusis
Section 7: Forward extensions and semiquavers
Section 8: The flattened 1st finger
Section 9: 3/8 and compound time
Glossary
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Sight-reading is an important aspect of making music and should in some form become a regular part of a student’s routine each time they play their instrument. Regular sight-reading helps the pupil to gain greater confidence when approaching any new piece of music for the first time.
Schott's Sight-Reading books aims to establish the habit early in every student’s learning process and the emphasis is on providing idiomatic tunes and structures for the specific instruments rather than sterile sight-reading exercises. Starting from very easy pieces with familiar shapes and rhythms, the range of notes, keys and rhythms gradually develops. In addition to this, each section of the books concludes with duets and accompanied pieces allowing the student to gain experience of sight-reading within the context of ensemble playing. Accompaniment exercises can be found at the end of the piano books.