Review: The Reproducible Companion/CD kit for the second level of Alfred's popular sight-singing curriculum is now available! This sequential sight-singing text introduces new music reading concepts using both rhythmic and pitch exercises, plus actual excerpts from real choral music. The new Reproducible Companion/CD offers additional exercises, activities, and assessments, plus a CD with accompaniments and ear training lessons.

Chapters: Singing in Minor, Chromatics, 2-Part, 3-Part, and 4-Part Harmony, Major and Minor Intervals, Changing Meter, Sixteenth-Note Patterns

Review: Sing at First Sight is a sequential sight-singing curriculum for all choirs! This Level 2 book opens with a comprehensive Rhythm Review and Pitch Practice reinforcing the concepts studied in Sing at First Sight, Level 1. Each of the four units that follow features a helpful Getting Ready page, progressive Rhythm Readiness exercises, and thorough music-reading Lessons with practice Exercises, useful Hints, and motivating Challenge Exercises. Unit summary and assessment is easily achieved with choral excerpts from Alfred's Choral Designs series, fun-filled Review games, and Evaluating Your Performance questions. Plus, Alfred has included a full-length Performance Piece to measure and celebrate your choir's sight-singing progress, and then perform in concert.

Chapters: Singing in Minor, Chromatics, 2-Part, 3-Part, and 4-Part Harmony, Major and Minor Intervals, Changing Meter, Sixteenth-Note Patterns

Review: Augment your sight-singing curriculum with this well-written supplemental textbook which directly correlates to the lessons taught in Alfred's popular Sing at First Sight method. Includes over 80 reproducible pages of additional exercises, activities, and assessments designed to strengthen the music reading skills of developing musicians. A listening CD provides ear training activities and recorded accompaniments for the six end-of-unit songs. Plus, a handy appendix with easy-to-follow charts and diagrams of music fundamentals. The Reproducible Companion is highly effective when used with Sing at First Sight; on a routine basis after each of the 24 sequential lessons; as needed to master challenging musical concepts; or as a general review following the completion of the original textbook. Logically layed out in a 96 page spiral-bound book, ready for the photocopier!

Chapters: Rhythm Exercises, Pitch Exercises, Written Activities, Ear Training, Assessment, Answer Key

Review: For beginners with no prior musical training. Learn the basics of singing including breathing, posture, warming up and more. Includes an easy and comprehensive approach to reading music. The Enhanced CD has an audio portion with practice exercises, demonstrations by professional singers and exciting accompaniments to sing along with. The software portion includes an interactive song player, which lets you adjust tempos, mix accompaniment tracks, record your performance and transpose song accompaniments to any key! There are 40 all-time favorite songs included in the book in a variety of styles, from Popular, to Jazz, Classical and Musical Theater. Book & CD

Chapters: Getting Started, The Basics of Singing, More Basics of Singing, Interpreting Vocal Music, Performing Music

Review: This book covers what every rock singer needs to know. Exercises and songs are included to help you strengthen your voice and extend your range. Live and studio singing is explained including information on the equipment you'll need to sing with a band. The CD includes accompaniments for songs and exercises.

Chapters: The Singer Within, The Basics of Singing, Advanced Rock-Singing Concepts and Techniques, Making It Happen: Singing Live with a Band, Making It Happen: Singing in the Studio

Review: A sequential sight singing curriculum for all choirs. Each of the six units (containing four lessons each) clearly introduces new music reading concepts, reinforces those concepts with several rhythm and pitch exercises, motivates students with helpful hints and challenge exercises, and concludes with fun-filled review games and "Evaluating Your Performance" questions. The helpful "Getting Ready" pages (which precede each unit) are filled with music fundamentals, and for choirs who have never read music before, an optional "Before We Begin" chapter opens the book. And it's all neatly laid out in a 96-page octavo sized publication; a perfect fit for your students, and their folders. From whole notes to sixteenth note patterns, seconds to sevenths, key signatures, dynamics, articulations, and tempo markings; it's all here, and it's all logically ordered to insure student success! Spend just a few minutes a day with this book and your choir, too, will learn to "Sing At First Sight!"

Chapters: Quarter None, Quarter Rest, Do, Re, Half Note, Half Rest, Mi, Fa, Whole Note, Whole Rest, Sol, La, Eighth Note, Eighth Rest, Ti, High Do, Choral Designs: "Song of Joy" by Jay Althouse, Review: Scavenger Hunt, Find the Wrong Note, Name That Tune, Evaluation Your Performance, Tie, Dotted Half Note, Low Ti, High Re, Dotted Quarter Note, Low La, Low Sol, Intervals, 2nds, 3rds, Choral Designs: "Sleep, My Child" by Mary Donnelly and George L.O. Strid, Dotted Half Note, Low Ti, High Re, Dotted Quarter Note, Low La, Low Sol, Intervals, 2nds, 3rds, Choral Designs: "Sleep, My Child" by Mary Donnelly and George L.O. Strid, 3/4 Time, 2/4 Time, 8ths/Octaves, Eighth-Quarter-Eighth Note Pattern, 4ths, 5ths, Choral Designs: "Where Go the Boats" by Dave and Jean Perry, 6ths, 7ths, Changing Meter, Pick-up Notes, Sixteenth Note, Sixteenth-Eighth Note Patterns, Choral Designs: "La Musica" by Jerry Estes, Rounds/Canons, Two-Part Harmony, Dotted Eighth Note, Dotted Eighth-Sixteenth Note Patterns, Triplet, Choral Designs: "Frozen December" by Jackie O'Neill, 2/3 Time/Cut Time, 6/8 Time, 9/8 Time, Three-Part harmony (Treble), Three-Part Harmony (Mixed), Choral Designs: "Alleluia Madrigal" by Donald Moore, "Sing Alleluia, Allelu!" by Andy Beck "I Am a Small Part of the World" by Sally K. Albrecht and Jay Althouse

Review: Singing 101 starts with the very basics and gets you singing right away. Every lesson in the book is explained and performed by the instructor on the DVD. It's just like taking a class in the privacy of your own home. If you're new to vocals and want a grasp of the fundamentals so you can start singing your favorite songs, pick this up today!

Chapters: Introduction, How to Read Music, Breathing, Singing Posture, Vowels, Vocalizing, The Tongue and Throat, D.C. al Fine or Da Capo al Fine, The Jaw, Incomplete Measures, Repeat Signs, Singing Vowels and Consonants, 6/8 Time Signature, Matching Pitches, Vocal Space, The Fermata, Energy, Breath Marks, More About Breathing, Vocal Resonance, Higher Pitches, Musical Expression, Dynamics, Legato and Staccato