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This text presents music that is challenging, yet not overwhelming to young musicians. Drawing on their own extensive experience as composers and arrangers who adapt music for their own students, the authors have struck a balance between rigor and accessibility.
About the Author
Thomas E. Benjamin has recently retired as Chair of the Department of Music Theory at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. A composer, conductor, performer, and music theorist with more than 40 compositions published and recorded, he also holds fellowships and awards from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Michael Horvit is Professor of Composition and Theory at the Moores School of Music. His works range from solo instrumental and vocal pieces to large symphonic and choral compositions and operas; widely performed in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Israel. He has published with C.F.Peters, MorningStar, Recital Publications, Shawnee Press, E.C.Schirmer, Southern, and Transcontinental, and has CDs with the Albany label. Horvit?s awards include the Martha Baird Rockefeller award as well as the National Endowment for the Arts. Robert Nelson teaches music theory and composition at the Moores School of Music. A composer in residence and music director of the Houston Shakespeare Festival for 17 seasons, he has also received numerous commissions for compositions and arrangements for the Houston Symphony Orchestra.
Music for Sight Singing,Thomas E. Benjamin,Michael Horvit,Robert S. Nelson,Wadsworth Publishing,0534628028,Instruction & Study - Voice,Music,Music / General
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