Melodic reading practice 1.

gif microphone 1- Look through the staves in the exercises and sing the notes aloud according to their pitch. While you sing, mark the corresponding time signature with your hand.

2- Remember 6/8 is a compound duple time signature. Compound because each beat is subdivided into three notes and duple because there are two groups of three beats.

3- Listen to the sound file to check if you have done it properly or simply to help you follow the melody.

4- You should increase speed gradually till you get to the given tempo marking and check for semitones too.


Exercise 1: 4/4 time signature.
Use the sound file to see how well you are doing.
Exercise 2: 3/4 time signature.
Again there's a sound to check your improvements.
Exercise 3: 6/8 time signature.
Listen to the following file to check your progress.

Melodic reading practice 2.


Here's another exercise. In this case it is a canon, a musical form in which one second voice repeats exactly what a first voice presents but shifted in time, creating a texture known as strict imitative polyphony. 1- Study the score, sing the notes aloud taking care of performing the right pitch and practise hand movements to represent the correct time signature. It doesn't matter if you start slowly, the idea is that speed is increased with practice till you get to the given tempo marking. 2. Check your progress with the sound file. 3. Rehearse enough till you have no doubts and can perform properly and fluently and pay attention to bars seven and fifteen where notes are sung in unison.
Exercise
Here's the sound file to check your performance. Don't forget to increase speed as you rehearse til you perform the given tempo marking.