Featuring over 300 rhythmic studies in simple musical forms, with short preliminary exercises–this text introduces students to the basic processes and complexities of musical rhythm and helps them develop the ability to perform all kinds of rhythmic patterns accurately at sight. Suitable not only for reading, but for dictation, improvisation, and composition; the collection contains one- and two-part rhythmic studies–mostly 12 to 16 measures long–that are intended to be sung, spoken, and tapped or clapped.

• NEW - Three-part study added to each chapter—Designed to be performed with voice and two hands, or with voice and hand.

  • Familiarizes students with performing more than one rhythm at a time.

• NEW - Septuplets studies added.

• NEW - Revised and improved studies throughout.

  • Provides students with improved studies with a dynamic shape.

• Focuses exclusively on rhythm—Metrical rhythm as it is found in the Western tradition of art music to the present time.

  • Provides students with more extensive work in rhythm than is available in other texts.

• Clearly defined and limited groups of patterns introduced in each chapter.

  • Enables students to develop competence with one meter or group of rhythmic patterns before proceeding to another.

• Various ways of performing the exercises and studies.

  • Offers students a variety of ways of approaching the studies.

• Studies that are musically coherent—Composed of well-defined phrases grouped in traditional simple musical forms.

  • Provides students with studies that are long enough to afford repetition, reinforce learning, and give practice in maintaining a steady tempo.

  • Involves students in making music, however simple at the beginning or complex at the end, rather than performing drills.

• Short preliminary exercises—Consisting of single measures or pairs of measures separated by whole-measure rests.

  • Provides students with exercises that serve as preparation for the studies that they precede.

• 130 two-part studies to be sung and clapped—Designed for solo performance, or with one or more people on each part.

  • Provides students with extensive practice in cross-rhythms—Singing and clapping at the same time, different and (in the later chapters) conflicting rhythms.

• Emphasizes singing the rhythms.

  • Provides students with a musical experience that demonstrates that rhythm consists of durations as well as attack patterns.

• Three-part study added to each chapter—Designed to be performed with voice and two hands, or with voice and hand.

  • Familiarizes students with performing more than one rhythm at a time.

• Septuplets studies added.

• Revised and improved studies throughout.

  • Provides students with improved studies with a dynamic shape.

 1. Two-Four Meter.


 2. Three-Four Meter.


 3. Four-Four Meter.


 4. Dotted Quarters and Tied Eighths in Simple Meter.


 5. Six-Eight Meter.


 6. Sixteenth-Notes in Simple Meter.


 7. Dotted Eighths in Simple Meter.


 8. Sixteenth-Notes in Six-Eight Meter.


 9. More Rests and Syncopation in Simple Meter.


10. More Rests and Syncopation in Six-Eight Meter.


11. Nine-Eight and Twelve-Eight Meter.


12. Triplets.


13. Two Against Three.


14. Half-Note Beat.


15. Dotted-Half-Note Beat.


16. Eighth-Note Beat.


17. Dotted-Eighth-Note Beat.


18. Small Subdivisions.


19. Changing Simple Meter.


20. Changing Compound Meter.


21. Changing Between Simple and Compound Meter With the Division Constant.


22. Changing Between Simple and Compound Meter With the Beat Constant.


23. Three Notes in Two Beats; Two Notes in Three Beats.


24. Four Against Three.


25. Four Notes in Three Beats; Three Notes in Four Beats.


26. Quintuplets and Septuplets.


27. Five-Eight Meter.


28. More Meters With Unequal Beats.


29. Changing Meters With Unequal Beats.


30. More Cross-Rhythms.


31. Tempo Modulation.

Music Fundamentals  [RHYTHM]   (Music)
Sight Singing  (Music)
Ear Training  (Music)

Fluency in reading musical rhythms, and accuracy in performing them, are essential skills for musicians. To help students acquire these skills, Studying Rhythm offers over 350 extended rhythmic studies, to be sung or spoken, tapped or clapped. Each of the thirty-one carefully graded chapters deals with a different meter or metrical patterns or rhythmic combination. The book begins with the simplest patterns in short measures and progresses to cross-rhythms and metric modulation, and may therefore be used for three- or four-year programs in musical theory and skills.

• musically coherent studies, in such traditional simple musical forms as ternary, variation, and canon.
• studies of sufficient length to afford repetition, reinforce learning, and give practice in maintaining a steady tempo.
• many two-part and some three-part studies, providing practice in solo and ensemble performance of different rhythms and, in later chapters, conflicting rhythms at the same time.
• studies suitable not only for reading, but for dictation, improvisation, and composition.
• materials that may be used with a variety of pedagogical approaches, several of which are explained.
• very short preparatory exercises for each group of studies and
• a chapter of cross-rhythms based on patterns found in African music.

• a three-part study in each chapter.
• studies dealing with septuplets.
• more studies with dynamic shapes specified, which foster performance as an enterprise in music-making.

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