Tempo Press

Authors: Kathleen DeBerry Brungard, Michael Alexander, Sandra Dackow
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Viola

Expressive Sight-Reading for Orchestra offers a sequential approach to teaching sight-reading in the string ensemble. Applicable to performing ensembles from middle school through high school, it provides a comprehensive curriculum for group sight-reading instruction.

Features:

• 29 Individual sight-reading pieces selected from the symphonic repertoire, arranged for string orchestra by Sandra Dackow and Michael Alexander
• Sight-Reading notes for the teacher written for each arrangement by Kathleen DeBerry Brungard
• Materials arranged into 3 Units organized by hierarchy of Meter, Rhythms, and Key
• Pre-test/Post-test for each unit for assessing individual student progress

Unit 1 contains: Repertoire in Primary Keys, Meters, and Rhythms (Book I Review)

Unit 2 contains: Repertoire in New Meters and Rhythms

• Meters include: 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, Cut Time, 3/8, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8, 5/8, 5/4, 4/2, 5/2
• New Rhythms include: Syncopation in Cut Time, Eighth note Triplet vs. Dotted Eighth-Sixteenth note Also: rhythmic groupings: in 1, alla breve, and divided 4/4 (in 8)

Unit 3 contains: Repertoire in New Keys: A, E, F, B♭, E♭, A♭ Major as well as F♯, D, G, C, F Minor

Unit format:

• Pre-Test/Post-test (found in teacher guide)
• Scale studies on bowings / keys (1-2)
• Sequenced string orchestra pieces (Unit 1: 6 pieces, Unit 2: 11 pieces, Unit 3: 12 pieces)