STUDENT INITIATED SIGHT SINGING

An interactive program for the instruction of rudimentary sight singing skills by David Otis Castonguay

THE CHALLENGE

• Provide a way for any student to practice sight singing at home. The student receives immediate
  assessment by listening and singing along with the melody played correctly by an audio file.

• The program should work with various levels of technology to adapt to the student’s available resources, print and audio CD’s or a personal computer.

• Provide an opportunity to customize sight singing melodies for individual instructional tastes.

• Provide this flexible instruction in a low cost per student package that may be used by an unlimited number of students at little or no cost to the student.

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THE PROGRAM

• 120 graded sight singing melodies in Treble clef and 120 melodies in Bass clef.

• The melodies are presented as individual PDF files which can be opened on any computer (MAC or PC) using free ware such as Preview or Adobe Acrobat Reader.

• Solfeggio syllables are provided for the initial melodies.

• A matching MIDI file of each melody is provided which may be opened using free ware such as
  Quicktime, RealPlayer, iTunes or similar programs.

• Solfeggio syllables are provided for the initial melodies.

• Student Initiated Sight Singing (SISS) is compatible for integration with SmartMusic (a program available for purchase from Finale) that provides unique capabilities for assessment and customized instruction.
  

Purchasers may request customized keys and melodies from the publisher.

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TO PURCHASE

• SISS 1.0 is available on one CD-ROM for $120. The lawful purchaser may make an unlimited number of copies of these materials for distribution to the students in their school. Distribution to others outside of the school requires an additional license fee.

• If purchased prior to 1 October 2008, owners will receive a FREE UPGRADE to SISS 2.0 which will contain an additional 50 melodies expanding the examples through minor keys and basic modulations.

• To purchase or receive additional information, contact:

David Otis Castonguay
dcastong@radford.edu
540.831.5260

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Created: September 2008

Last modified: 24 September 2008

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