Sight Reading Guided Notes

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SIGHT READING
SEQ UENCING MUSICIANSHIP
TREBLE CLEF CHO IR, GRADES 9 -10
TYLER ALESSI

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Slide 2 – Fill in the Blanks!

LECTURE OBJECTIVES

STUDENT O BJECTIVES
• Students will be introduced to ____________________
• Students will learn how to _________ in a musical example
• Students will learn how to ____________ present in music example using ‘DO ’
• Students will learn how to sight read a musical excerpt out of time.
CA Standards
• NOV.MU:3.Pr4.1 – Select varied repertoire to study based on interest, music-reading skills, and
understanding of the structure of music, context, and the technical skill of the individual ensemble

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Slide 3 – Was this difficult? Why?

SIGHT READ THIS!

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Slide 6 – Fill in the blanks!

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Slide 9 – Fill in the blank. Draw your sharps and flats.

BUT HOW DO I FIND DO?

• This is a _____________________
• Any several combinations of sharps or flats that indicate the key of a composition
• Key signatures can be sharp (_____) or flat (_______)
• W e can use the key signature to find ‘______’
• If the key signature is flat (_______)
• The last flat is ‘_______’
• Count down from ‘_______’ to find ‘______’
• ‘____’ - ‘MI’ - ‘RE’ - ‘____’
• If the key signature is sharp (_____)
• The last sharp is ‘____’
• Count up from ‘___’ to find ‘___’
• ‘___’ – ‘___’

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Slide 11 – Fill in the blanks by drawing your sharps and flats.

What kind of key signature is this? Sharps (___) or Flats (___)

Slide 15 – Write a mnemonic device to remember your lines and spaces.

Lines

E-

G-

B-

D-

F-

Spaces

F-

A-

C-

E-
Slide 17 – 28 – Write in your lines and spaces. Circle the last sharp (TI). Circle the letter name of the line
that (TI) is on.
Slide 31 – 38 – Write in the letter names on the left-hand side of the staff (circled). Write your solfege
underneath the notes (fill in the blanks). Try audiating the excerpt!

NOW YO U TRY!
Step 3: Use ‘DO ’ to find other Solfege syllables

Write letter names 1. Write in your letter names on the left-hand side
here of the staff.
2. Write your solfege underneath the notes

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REMEMBER:
E = ‘DO’ B = ‘SO L’
F = ‘RE’ C = ‘LA’
G = ‘MI’ D = ‘TI’
A = ‘FA’

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