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Free Sight Singing: Melodia, A Comprehensive Course in Sight Singing by Leo Lewis

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ENTIRE BOOK: Melodia: A Comprehensive Course in Sight Singing by Leo Lewis
INTRO: Introduction and Table of Contents
Book 1, FIRST SERIES, p. 1-20: One-part diatonic exercises in step-wise melody – G and F clefs – All major keys to B and to D-flat inclusive – All representations of notes and rests of whole-beat length and multiples thereof – Elementary presentation of the divided beat.
Book 1, SECOND SERIES, p. 21-40: Two-part diatonic exercises in step-wise melody – Keys B and to D-flat inclusive – All representations of notes as in First Series, with greater variety and length of rests – The divided beat in fuller presentation.
Book 1, SECOND SERIES--MINOR KEYS, p. 21-29: Pages 21-29 from Melodia, rewritten in minor keys for 2-part minor key singing without modulation.
Book 2, THIRD SERIES, p. 41-60: One-part exercises in step-wise melody in all keys – Graded presentation of all chromatic tones, except flat-2 and flat-5 – Development of the minor – The dotted note involving division of the beat – Triple and quadruple division of the beat.
Book 2, FOURTH SERIES, p. 61-80: Two-part exercises in step-wise melody in all keys – Chromatic tones, modulatory and ornamental – Development of incidental and extended modulation – Syncopation – Mingling of double and triple divisions of the beat.
Book 2, FIFTH SERIES, p. 81-100: One-part exercises – Systematic treatment of intervals, beginning with the larger – Skips to and from chromatic tones having obvious key-relationship – The commoner augmented and diminished intervals.
Book 3, SIXTH SERIES, p. 101-130: Two-part exercises embodying all intervals treated in Fifth Series – More elaborate development of rhythmical difficulties, especially of syncopation – Lengthy solfeggi from German, French, and English sources – Canon and Fugue.
Book 3, SEVENTH SERIES, p. 131-150: One-part exercises – Systematic treatment of skips to, from, and between chromatic tones – Introductory study of passages whose chromatics “deny” the signature – Advanced solfeggi from foreign sources – Specimen difficulties, without text, from the classics.
Book 3, EIGHTH SERIES, p. 151-160: Two-part exercises, involving all the difficulties treated in Seventh Series, and fully reviewing the rhythmical problems earlier treated – Maximum difficulties of mediated modulation – Special studies in the development of independence of the parts.
Book 4, NINTH SERIES, p. 161-176: One-part exercises – Typical passages from early and recent composers, with text, of difficulty ranging from medium to great – Full exposition of chromatics which “deny” the signature – Arbitrary changes of tonality.
Book 4, TENTH SERIES, p. 177-190: Two-part exercises, with text – Representative excerpts from early and recent composers, with a few new exercises, embodying maximum difficulties of pitch and rhythm, as well as the utmost independence of parts.
Book 4, ELEVENTH SERIES, p. 191-200: Two-part exercises, partly without and partly with text, in the following Church Modes: Aeolian, Dorian, Ionian, Mixolydian, Phrygian – Canonic imitation, strict and free, in other intervals than that of the octave.
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