The Sight-Singer, Volume II for Two-Part Mixed/Three-Part Mixed Voices: Choral Teacher Edition with 1 set of KEY cards

Volume II builds on a carefully designed foundation without retreating into review; it introduces harmonic minor, chromatic passages, larger intervallic leaps, and asymmetric meters in a way that feels like natural growth rather than sudden difficulty. With 195 musically interesting exercises (many with text), your singers spend rehearsal time on material that actually sounds like music, not mechanical drill patterns. The teacher edition and key cards give you the transparency and preparation tools to lead efficiently through more sophisticated concepts.

The exercises progress from familiar ground into genuinely musical challenge. Harmonic minor passages add color and minor-key character; chromatics create harmonic momentum; larger jumps demand interval awareness without arbitrary difficulty. Asymmetric meters keep students attentive and engaged rather than lulled into autopilot.

Junior high and middle school choral directors working with mixed voices who need a coherent sequence beyond Volume I. This edition serves teachers who want their singers to encounter chromatics, harmonic minor, and metric complexity in a structured way before tackling full chamber or concert repertoire.

• Begin each rehearsal by establishing the tonal center with the key cards before moving into the exercises; this anchors harmonic minor work and prevents students from defaulting to relative major.
• Work the asymmetric meter exercises slowly at first, conducting the full pattern so students internalize the measure grouping rather than fighting the bar lines.
• Use the exercises with text as bridges between pure sight-singing and actual choral repertoire; these give students a musical anchor when intervals or rhythms feel abstract on their own.
• Rotate through exercises in mixed order rather than always proceeding sequentially; this prevents students from relying on memory and strengthens genuine sight-reading.

Integrate this as your core sight-singing curriculum during the first half of the school year or whenever you transition from foundational to intermediate musicianship. The musical exercises work well as warm-up material before tackling new concert pieces, giving singers fluency with the compositional language they will encounter in standard choral repertoire.

• Reading harmonic minor tonality and distinguishing it from relative major
• Navigating chromatic passages with accuracy
• Singing larger intervallic jumps (fourths, fifths, sixths)
• Reading and performing asymmetric meters (5/4, 7/8, etc.)
• Coordinating rhythm and pitch in increasingly complex combinations
• Sight-singing with text while maintaining accurate interval and rhythmic placement