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This innovative sightreading book for Level 2A builds confident readers through recognition of individual notes and perception of note patterns, both rhythmic and melodic. Entertaining musical art and rhythm road exercises motivate and guide student progress.
This inventive sightreading course uses sets of exercises based on melodic and rhythmic patterns from the 2nd Edition Primer Lesson Book. Students play one exercise a day, completing one set per week. Entertaining musical art helps guide the sightreading process and each page presents a new learning vignette in a spirit of fun.
By Level 4 students are sightreading variations on Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag, new settings of Grieg’s Hall of the Mountain King, and patterned variations of Bach’s Prelude in C. Rhythm patterns become more complex with the dotted eighth to sixteenth; harmonic patterns advance to the V7 chord in root position and sharp key signatures of D, A and E major.
Based on the Associated Board theory syllabus. Contains music examples and interesting exercises are plentiful throughout the text. Printed Music THEORY Grade level: 1