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Most of the exercises found on this site are taken from textbooks that have entered—or in some cases were intentionally placed in—the public domain. The table below links to the original facsimiles of these documents. The notation, audio, and image files for the exercises are also available. They are bundled by source and type and can be downloaded by clicking the links below.
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| Daniel Batchellor and Thomas Charmbury, The Tonic Sol-fa Music Course for Schools: A Series of Exercises and Songs in the Tonic Sol-fa Method, Progressively Arranged in Steps; With a Corresponding Supplemental Course in the Staff Notation, Vol. 1, Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1884. |
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| Daniel Batchellor and Thomas Charmbury, The Tonic Sol-fa Music Course for Schools: A Series of Exercises and Songs in the Tonic Sol-fa Method, Progressively Arranged in Steps; With a Corresponding Supplemental Course in the Staff Notation, Vol. 2, Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1884. |
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| Daniel Batchellor and Thomas Charmbury, The Tonic Sol-fa Music Course for Schools: A Series of Exercises and Songs in the Tonic Sol-fa Method, Progressively Arranged in Steps; With a Corresponding Supplemental Course in the Staff Notation, Vol. 3, Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1884. |
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| Daniel Batchellor and Thomas Charmbury, The Tonic Sol-fa Music Course for Schools: A Series of Exercises and Songs in the Tonic Sol-fa Method, Progressively Arranged in Steps, With a Corresponding Supplemental Course in the Staff Notation, Vol. 4, Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1887. |
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| Frédéric Boissière, Solfége élémentaire: À l'usage des pensionnats et écoles primaires contenant 110 exercices à une voix et 12 récréations à 2 voix avec l’explication de tous les principes de la musique, Paris: J. Heiéliard, 1876. |
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| Samuel W. Cole and Leo R. Lewis, Melodia: a Comprehensive Course in Sight-singing (Solfeggio) the Educational Plan by Samuel W. Cole the Exercises Written and Selected by Leo R. Lewis, Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1909. |
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| Giuseppe Concone, The School of Sight-Singing: A Practical Method for Young Beginners Followed by a Series of Favorite Melodies Serving as Solfeggi, ed. B[ernard] Lütgen, New York: G. Schirmer, 1897. |
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| Alexander T. Cringan, Conservatory Sight-Singing Method, Toronto: Whaley, Royce & Co., 1901. |
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| Benjamin Crowell, Eyes and Ears: An Anthology of Melodies for Sight-Singing, 2004. |
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| Hollis Dann, First Studies in Sight Singing: Selected from Second Year Music and Third Year Music of the Hollis Dann Music Course, New York: American Book Company, 1915. |
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| David Smey, Easy Rhythms for In-Class Practice , 2005. |
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| Arthur Somervell, One Thousand Exercises: (Original and Collected) to Accompany Fifty Steps in Sight Singing (Incorporating the 1st and 2nd Sets of Exercises), London: J. Curwen, 1911. |
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| Timothy Sullivan, [miscellaneous exercises]. |
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| George A. Wedge, Advanced Ear-Training and Sight Singing as Applied to the Study of Harmony: A Continuation of the Practical and Coordinated Course for Schools and Private Study, New York: G. Schirmer, 1922. |
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