Choral Sight Reading

Micheál Houlahan is Professor of Music Theory and Aural Skills and Chair of the Tell School of Music at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. He is also a visiting professor of music at the China Conservatory of Music, Beiijing. Philip Tacka is Professor of Music at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. He is also currently a grant evaluator on the American Fellowship Panel for the American Association of University Women.

Unit 1 Phrase and Form
Unit 2 Beat, Meter, Rhythm
Unit 3 Simple Melodic Patterns
Unit 4 Simple Rhythm Patterns: First Division of the Beat
Unit 5 Orientation to the Pentatonic Scale: Trichord 1
Unit 6 Orientation to the Pentatonic Scale: Trichord 2
Unit 7 Simple Meter: Second Division of the Beat and Basic Patterns
Unit 8 Major Pentatonic Melodies
Unit 9 Simple Meter: Second Division of the Beat and More Complicated Patterns
Unit 10 The Extended Pentatonic Scale
Unit 11 Upbeats
Unit 12 Syncopation
Unit 13 Minor Pentatonic Melodies
Unit 14 Dotted Notes
Unit 15 Orientation to the Major Scale Pentachord and Hexachord Melodies
Unit 16 Simple Meter: Second Division of the Beat and Dotted Note Combinations
Unit 17 Major Scale
Unit 18 Triple Meter and Changing Meter
Unit 19 Orientation to Minor Scales
Unit 20 Compound Meter: First Division of the Beat
Unit 21 Natural Minor Scale
Unit 22 Compound Meter: Second Division of the Beat
Unit 23 Harmonic Minor Scale
Unit 24 Compound Meter: Second Division of the Beat and Dotted Notes
Unit 25 Melodic Minor Scale
Unit 26 Renaissance Style Compositions
Unit 27 Baroque Style Compositions
Unit 28 Classical Style Compositions
Unit 29 Romantic and Twentieth Century Style Compositions