118 Sight Singing Assignment

Tetrachords and Modes

• Sing using the numbers written in the score. These numbers indicate pitch classes.
• “W” = whole step, “H” = half step

Here are the tetrachords we will use (for reference):

In the following exercise, sing the pitches and numbers of the first tetrachord, then sing the interval between the last pitch of the first tetrachord and the first pitch of the second tetrachord using the words “whole step” or “half step” as appropriate. Then sing the second tetrachord, starting from 0 as shown.

Modal Melodies

Dorian Mode (D Dorian)

Camille Saint-Saëns, Carnaval des Animaux (1886), “Marche Royale du Lion”

Dorian Mode (E Dorian)

“Scarborough Fair” (English folk song)

Phrygian Mode (E Phrygian)

Heinrich Schütz, Johannes-Passion SWV 481, “Introitus”

Lydian Mode (F Lydian)

Charles-Valentin Alkan, 12 Etudes Op. 35, No. 5

Mixolydian Mode (E-flat Mixolydian)

“She Moved Through the Fair” (Irish folk song)

Duet in Phrygian Mode (E Phrygian)

Thomas Tallis, Nine Tunes for Archbishop Parker’s Psalter (1567), No. 3