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Milne, A. Forbes: An Introduction to Sight Singing. Part 1 Ref: ES26

For over fifty years, A. Forbes Milne's text has been the classic route to mastery of the art of sight-singing, an essential skill for vocalists and a most valuable study for all musicians besides. Preparing each section of carefully graded exercises in various keys with a detailed yet concise theoretical account, the author offers a thorough preliminary training in time, rhythm and pitch before proceeding to major and minor scales, groupings of rests, crotchets, quavers, semiquavers and triplets, and chromatic notes within non-modulating melodies. The method includes the so-called French time-names and Solfa note-names for those wishing to use them.

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Milne, A. Forbes: An Introduction to Sight Singing. Part 2 Ref: ES27

Proceeding from the basis of simple, chromatically inflected tunes mastered in Book 1, An Introduction to Sight-Singing Book 2 extends the student's technique to encompass the performance of extensive, modulating melodies. There is further work on minor keys and chromatic notes, and stress is laid on the value of learning to sing by interval as well as by sense of key in order to pitch notes in passages of rapid and frequently changing tonality. Copiously furnished with examples and exercises, the book concludes with 50 sight-singing studies containing chromaticism and more extreme modulation, representing the most challenging standard of sight-singing technique required in the course of everyday practical musicianship.

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Tosi, Pier Francesco: Observations on the Florid Song. Paperback Ref: B675

This 18th-century bel canto manual includes ornamentation, cadences, divisions and recitatives. Edited with additional notes by Michael Pilkington, it is an invaluable reference work for all performers concerned with period authenticity.

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