Molto Cantabile! Sight Singing the World's Greatest Melodies
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Copyright: 2013
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Molto Cantabile! The title says it all. This anthology contains 500 melodies from the folk, popular, and classical repertoires from around the world that are joyful to sing. All the examples in the book were chosen because they represent some of the most memorable music from the past seven centuries. The book has been designed to provide college music majors with enough sight singing challenges to cover four semesters. Level One is comprised of melodies that are strictly diatonic. Levels Two, Three and Four provide increasingly more chromatic and disjunct melodies that take students up to the challenges of the early 20th century. The purpose is to provide students with a wide variety of pitch and rhythm material that can be read at sight to develop a higher level of music literacy. This book assumes that students can already read music at a rudimentary level.
About nine percent of the book employs C clefs, a number sufficient to familiarize students with challenges faced by players of the viola, bassoon, trombone, and cello. The alto clef is introduced in the second half of Level 1 and the tenor clef in Level 2.
The music from the folk and popular repertoires has been placed in a wide variety keys so that students will be comfortable reading multiple accidentals. The music from the classical repertoire has been kept in its original key.
Each of the levels contains enough multi-part tunes, mostly duets, that students can prepare at least one a week for class presentation.
Ninety percent of the melodies have a range that is no greater than a twelfth, a reasonable limitation for students who are not trained singers. A quarter of the melodies are in time signatures other than 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4. The scales employed range from major and the three versions of minor to Greek modes, pentatonic, hexatonic, whole-tone, octatonic, Lydian-dominant, and chromatic.
By the time students have finished this book they will be familiar with a representative selection of war-horses from every musical genre from campfire to concert hall.
USA Love Somebody, Yes I Do
England Pop Goes the Weasel
Lehar The Merry Widow Waltz
USA The Rock Island Line
Blake The Sidewalks of New York
Spiritual All God's Children Got Shoes
Christy Good Night Ladies
England Three Blind Mice
USA Cindy (Get Along Home)
Germany Du, du liegst mir im Herzen
Mahler Symphony No. 1, III
Sibelius Finlandia
Mouret Rondeau
USA Yankee Doodle
Kelley Home on the Range
USA The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Darce Bicycle Built for Two
Scotland Bunessan (also Morning Has Broken)
Mozart Horn Concerto No. 4, III
Stravinsky Chant du Rossignol (68)
USA Eency, Weency Spider
Dvorak Symphony No. 8, I
Israel Hineh Ma Tov
USA Sweet Betsy From Pike
England Vive l'amour
England Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
Beethoven Moonlight Sonata, II
Paterson Waltzing Matilda
Handel Hornpipe 2, Water Music
Cowboy Red River Valley
Spiritual When the Saints Go Marching In
Cowboy Goodbye Old Paint
Spiritual One More River to Cross
Holst Second Suite for Military Band
Burns Auld Lang Syne
USA Down in the Valley
Spiritual Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
Israel Artza Aleenu (Our Land)
China Feng Yang Hua Gu
USA The Riddle Song
Sea Chantey Blow the Man Down
Cowboy Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Sea Chantey What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor?
Korea Arirang
Tindley I'll Overcome Someday
Molloy Love's Old Sweet Song
Wagner Bridal Chorus, Lohengrin
Bland In the Evening By the Moonlight
Brahms Wiegenlied
Newton Amazing Grace
Sea Chantey Blow Ye Winds in the Morning
Spiritual Go Down, Moses
Mexico Cielito Lindo
Thompson Far Above Cayuga's Waters
Rameau Le Tambourin
Shaker Hymn Simple Gifts
Cowboy The Streets of Laredo
USA On Top of Old Smokey
USA She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, I
English Carol God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
English Carol We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Spiritual He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
Scotland I Know Where I'm Going
Gullah Kum Ba Yah
Spiritual Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
Poulton Aura Lee
England God Save the Queen
Christmas Carol Good King Wenceslas
Israel Hevenu Shalom Aleichem
England The Water Is Wide
Holland We Gather Together
France Sur le pont d'Avignon
USA The Crawdad Song
USA The Wabash Cannon Ball
Mussorgsky Coronation Scene, Boris Godunov
Schumann First Loss, Album for the Young
Rentaro Kojo No Tsuki
Foster Oh, Susanna
Danks Silver Threads Among the Gold
Gilmore When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Foster Old Folks at Home
Lyle The Man on the Flying Trapeze
Wade Adeste Fideles
Gruber The Caissons Go Rolling Along
Scott Annie Laurie
Nigeria Everybody Loves Saturday Night
USA Nine Hundred Miles
Ireland Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
England Country Gardens
Spiritual Go Tell It on the Mountain
Scotland Loch Lomond
Hastings Rock of Ages
Minstrel The Blue-Tail Fly
Delibes Mazurka, Coppelia
Foster My Old Kentucky Home
USA Pick a Bale of Cotton
France L'homme armé
Lowry Shall We Gather at the River?
Evans In the Good Old Summertime
USA The Erie Canal
Spiritual Oh, Won't You Sit Down?
Offenbach The Marines' Hymn
French-Canadian Alouette
Chabrier Habanera
Bach Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Dvorak Symphony No. 8, III
England The Foggy, Foggy Dew
USA Turkey in the Straw
Jamaica Mango Walk
Schubert Serenade
Vivaldi Spring, The Four Seasons
Mexico La Cucaracha
Grieg Norwegian Dance, Op. 35, No. 2
USA Shortnin' Bread
Spiritual Do, Lord
Gruber Stille Nacht
Haydn String Quartet, Op. 3, No. 5, II
Schubert Impromptu, Op. 90, No. 1
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1, II
Haydn Saint Anthony Chorale
Root The Battle Cry of Freedom
USA The Yellow Rose of Texas
Mozart The Bird-Catcher's Song, The Magic Flute
USA Tom Dooley
Verdi Triumphal March, Aida
Beethoven Symphony No. 9, IV
Ireland The Irish Washerwoman
von Suppe The Light Cavalry Overture
Nicolai The Merry Wives of Windsor, Overture
Mozart Clarinet Concerto, II
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, I
Bland Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
Bland Oh, Dem Golden Slippers
Adam Cantique de Noel (O Holy Night)
Weber Der Freischutz, Overture
Sousa Semper Fidelis
Beethoven Symphony No. 1, IV
Yale Boola Boola
Verdi Questa o quella, Rigoletto
Bach Suite for Lute
Sea Chantey A-Roving
China Kang Ding Qing Ge
Spiritual Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
England It's The Same The Whole World Over
Englemann Melody of Love
Gibbons The Silver Swan
Ravel Fairy Garden, Mother Goose Suite
Japan Sakura
Spiritual Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Foster Camptown Races
Spiritual Deep River
Franck Symphony in Dm, III
Jablonsky Child's Play
Dvorak Symphony No. 9, III
English Carol The Twelve Days of Christmas
Edwards In My Merry Oldsmobile
Tilzer Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Godard Berceuse, Jocelyn
Handel Ombra mai fu, Serce
Mendelssohn Songs Without Words, Op. 19, No. 1
Chopin Waltz in Am
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1, I
Faulkner The Arkansas Traveler
Mozart Violin Concerto, K. 219, III
Petzold Minuet in G
Glover The Rose of Tralee
USA Careless Love
Jablonsky More Leaves
Hawaii Aloha Oe (Farewell to Thee)
Bishop Home Sweet Home
Germany O Tannenbaum
Italy Santa Lucia
Barnby Sweet and Low
Mendelssohn On Wings of Song
Ward The Band Played On
French Carol Angels We Have Heard on High
Russia Korobushka (The Peddler)
Philippines The Mango Seed
Puccini O mio babbino caro, Gianni Schicchi
Granados Playera No. 5, "Andaluza"
Haydn Symphony No. 94, II
Ireland Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5, II
Sullivan I'm Called Little Buttercup, HMS Pinafore
Rubinstein Melody in F
England Scarborough Fair
Mexico Señor Don Gato
Offenbach Intermezzo (Barcarolle), Les Contes de Hoffmann
Brahms Waltz in A flat
Taiwan Alishan Jr Ge
Spiritual Down By the Riverside
Handel Lascia ch'io pianga, Rinaldo
USA The House of the Rising Sun
Albeniz Cadiz, Suite Espagnole
Tchaikovsky Sweet Dreams
Clarke Trumpet Voluntary
England Greensleeves
Schubert Marche Militaire
Sullivan When I Was a Lad, HMS Pinafore
Medieval Sumer Is Icumen In
Ball When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
Cohan Give My Regards to Broadway
Friedman Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Cowboy Git Along Little Dogies
Mozart Horn Concerto No. 4, I
Cohan The Yankee Doodle Boy
Strauss Jr. Emperor Waltz
Mozart Symphony No. 40, I
Monk Abide with Me
Clarke Prince of Denmark March
USA Shenendoah
USA I've Been Working on the Railroad
Beethoven Pathetique Sonata, II
USA Battle Hymn of the Republic
Emmett Dixie
USA Black is the Color
USA Clementine
Swift Sailing, Sailing
Cannon Bill Bailey
Ravel Pavane for a Dead Princess
Puccini Quando m'en vo, La Boheme
Gershwin I'll Build a Staircase to Paradise
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, I
USA Worried Man Blues
Ward America the Beautiful
Mendelssohn Wedding March, Midsummer Night's Dream
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March 1
Mascagni Innegiamo il Signor non e morto, Cavalleria Rusticana
Czechoslovakia Stodola Pumpa
Dvorak Symphony No. 9, IV
Spiritual Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
Balfe When Other lips, The Bohemian Girl
Israel Hava Nagila
Bizet Intermezzo, L'Arlesienne
Newton Casey Jones
Scotland The Campbells Are Coming
Robles El Condor
Schumann The Merry Farmer, Album for the Young
USA Frankie and Johnny
Mozart Violin Concerto, K. 219, II
Cohan You're a Grand Old Flag
University Gaudeamus Igitur
Strauss Jr. The Blue Danube Waltz
Westendorf I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen
Foster Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair
Purcell Dido's Lament, Dido and Aeneas
Mozart La ci darem la mano, Don Giovanni
di Capua Maria, Mari
Beethoven Minuet in G
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23, I
Puccini Che gelida manina, La Boheme
Pierpont Jingle Bells
Schubert The Trout Quintet
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3, I
Mahler Symphony No. 1, II
Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik, I
Beethoven Fur Elise
Liszt Liebestraume No. 3
Handel Where'er You Walk, Semele
Franck Symphony in Dm, II
Beethoven Symphony No. 3, II
Schumann Wild Rider, Album for the Young
Handel Air, Water Music
Bizet Prelude, L'Arelsienne
Brazil A Zing-a Za
Caribbean Jamaica Farewell
Bach Keyboard Concerto No. 5, II
Mendelssohn Nocturne, Midsummer Night's Dream
Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture
Verdi La Forza del destino, Overture
Brahms Symphony No. 1, IV
Debussy Reverie
Ravel Sleeping Beauty Pavane, Mother Goose Suite
Schoenberg Verklaerte Nacht
Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Revelge
Ireland Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye
Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings, I
deCurtis Come Back to Sorrento
Russia Song of the Volga Boatmen
Christmas Carol Joy to the World
Joplin The Easy Winners
Wagner The Meistersingers of Nuremberg, Prelude
Chopin Etude in E major
Debussy La cathedrale engloutie, Preludes, Book I
Mussorgsky The Old Castle, Pictures at an Exhibition
USA Columbia, The Gem of the Ocean
Ravel Menuet, Le tombeau de Couperin
Debussy Claire de Lune, Suite Bergamasque
Debussy Passpied, Suite Bergamasque
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 5, II
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8, III
Bach Suite No. 2, Rondeau
Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik, II
Delibes Valse Lente, Coppelia
Dvorak Waltz in A, Op. 54, No. 1
Bach Keyboard Concerto in Dm, II
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, IV
Schubert Waltz, Op. 9, No. 1
Grieg Folk Song, Lyrical Pieces
Brahms Haydn Variations, III
Ravel Petite Poucet, Mother Goose Suite
Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty Waltz
Satie Gymnopedie 1
Bach Wachet auf, ruft uns die stimme
Tchaikovsky Chanson Triste
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, IIb
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, III
Chopin Mazurka, Op. 59, No. 2
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4, I
Grieg Solvejg's Song, Peer Gynt
Granados Danzas Espanolas 2
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, II
Bach Et exultavit spiritus meus, Magnificat
Handel Hornpipe, Water Music
Schubert Impromptu, Op. 90, No. 3
Brahms Symphony No. 2, III
Smith To Anachreon in Heaven
Grieg Sarabande, From Holberg's Time
Beethoven Symphony No. 1, I
Dvorak Symphony No. 8, III
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 17, I
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, II
Sullivan The Lost Chord
De Koven Oh Promise Me
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, I
Schubert Symphony No. 8, I
Meacham American Patrol
Mendelssohn March of the Priests, Athalia
Mahler Symphony No. 4, III
Martini Plaisir d'Amour
Franck Symphonic Variations
Schumann Symphony No. 3, I
Verdi Gloria all' Egitto, Aida
Friedman Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland
Joplin The Strenuous Life
Gounod Funeral March of a Marionette
Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings, IV
Mozart String Trio in E flat, IV, K.563
Herbert I'm Falling in Love with Someone, Naughty Marietta
Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King, Peer Gynt
Cui Orientale
Grieg Piano Concerto, I
Spiritual Rock-A My Soul
Franck Symphony in Dm, II
Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien, m. 95
Chopin Grande Valse Brillante
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23, I
Chopin Fantasie-Impromptu in C#m
Mozart Symphony No. 40, III
Tchaikovsky Waltz of the Flowers, The Nutcracker
Taylor Down By the Old Mill Stream
Chopin Prelude No. 7
Dvorak Symphony No. 8, IV
Grieg Piano Concerto, III
Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings, III
Vernor The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik, III
Armstrong Sweet Adeline
Weber Euryanthe Overture
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2, III
Bach Suite No. 2, Sarabande
Tchaikovsky Waltz, Serenade for Strings
Russia Ochi Chornya (Dark Eyes)
Franck Symphony in Dm, II
Mexico Laredo
Chopin Prelude No. 15
Grieg Morning Mood, Peer Gynt
Borodin Polovetsian Dances
Mahler Symphony No. 5, I
Sullivan Tit-willow, The Mikado
Paganini Caprice No.24
Bizet Habanera, Carmen
Strauss Jr. Tales from the Vienna Woods
Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien, m.19
Villoldo El Choclo
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2, I
Schumann Piano Concerto, I
Franck Symphony in Dm, I
Verdi Sempre libera, La Traviata
Leoncavallo Vesti la giubba, Pagliacci
Granados Danzas Espanolas 1
Mahler Symphony No. 1, IV
Rachmaninov Elegie, Op. 3, No. 1
Chopin Mazurka, Op. 17, No. 4
Bizet Seguidilla, Carmen
Chopin Nocturne in C#m, Op. 27, No. 1
Rimsky-Korsakov Song of India, Sadko
Haydn Symphony No. 103, II
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23, II
Mozart Piano Sonata, K. 330, II
Verdi La donna e mobile, Rigoletto
Bizet Toreador Song, Carmen
Johnson Lavender, My Lavender
Schoenberg Verklaerte Nacht
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, II
Gershwin Swanee
Bizet La fleur que tu m'avais jetee, Carmen
Beethoven Symphony No. 7, II
Albinoni Adagio in G minor
Beethoven Symphony No. 1, II
Italy Carnival of Venice
Beethoven Symphony No. 5, II
Foster Beautiful Dreamer
Debussy Girl with the Flaxen Hair, Preludes I
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4, II
Stravinsky Petrushka: Rehearsal 71
Wolf Der Verlassene magdlein
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, II
Mahler Symphony No. 5, Adagietto
Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien, m. 197
Saint-Saens The Swan, Carnival of the Animals
Strauss Jr. Die Fledermaus
Mozart Rondo II
Ives The Housatonic at Stockbridge
Stravinsky The Firebird: Finale
Mexico La Raspa
Brahms Symphony No. 2
Harrison In the Gloaming
Wagner Song to the Evening Star, Tannhauser
Tchaikovsky Romeo & Juliet, Overture-Fantasy
Haydn Trumpet Concerto, II
Delibes Waltz, Coppelia
Daniels You Tell Me Your Dream
USA A Man Without a Woman
Scotland Comin' Thro' the Rye
Brahms Symphony No. 2, II
Bach Suite No. 2, Overture
Ravel Daphnis & Chloe (156)
Ravel Sonatine, I
Stravinsky The Firebird: Round Dance
D'Indy Laufenburg
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2, II
Tchaikovsky Arabian Dance, The Nutcracker
Brahms Intermezzo, Op. 118, No.2
Tchaikovsky None But the Lonely Heart
Mendelssohn Songs Without Words, Op. 19, No. 6
Stravinsky The Firebird: Lullaby
Germany Lovely Evening
USA Row, Row, Row Your Boat
USA The Farmer in the Dell (enhanced)
USA Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Borodin Nocturne, String Quartet 2
Brahms Symphony No. 1, II
Mahler Symphony No. 4, IV
Brahms Symphony No. 4, IV
Lincke Glow Worm (duet)
Haydn Piano Sonata in G, H. 27, II
Ravel Sonatine, II
Bach Suite No. 3, Air
Sibelius Symphony No. 2, II
Wales All Through the Night
Bach Bouree II, Suite No. 3 for cello
Greece Gerakina
Debussy String Quartet, III
Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Joplin The Entertainer
Chopin Mazurka, Op. Post. 68, No. 4
Grieg Piano Concerto, II
Bizet L'Arelsienne, Overture
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, I
Strauss An einsamer Quelle
Debussy String Quartet, I
Brahms Violin Concerto, II
Bayly Long, Long Ago
Brahms Symphony No. 4, I
Schubert Ave Maria
Mussorgsky Goldenberg & Schmulye, Pictures at an Exhibition
Prokofiev Vision Fugitive
Tchaikovsky String Quartet, Op.11, II
Wagner Tannhauser Overture
Rachmaninov Prelude, Op. 23, No.6
Brahms Wie Melodien zieht es mir
Chopin Nocturne, Op. 9, No.2
Wagner Prelude, Tristan und Isolde
Stravinsky Le Sacre du printemps: Danse sacrale
Stravinsky Le Sacre du printemps: Mystic Circle
Ravel Daphnis & Chloe (176)
Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Stravinsky Petrushka: Opening
Stravinsky Petrushka: Rehearsal 30
Stravinsky The Soldier's March, L'Histoire du soldat
Ravel Menuet, Le tombeau de Couperin
Schoenberg Three Pieces for Piano, Op. 11, No. 1
Rossini Una voce poco fa, The Barber of Seville
Schoenberg Five Pieces for Orchestra, II
Jablonsky I Want to Be Wanted
Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain
Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain
Faure Apres un reve
Weber Overture, Oberon
Brahms Symphony No. 3, III
Scriabin Poem of Ecstasy
Bach Sicilienne, Flute Sonata 2
Bach Keyboard Concerto in Dm, I
Dvorak Slavonic Dance No. 1
Dvorak Symphony No. 9, II
Bugle Call Taps
Puccini The Humming Chorus, Madama Butterfly