Folk Song Sight Singing Series Book 1

The Folk Song Sight Singing Series Book 1 is a foundational music education resource compiled and edited by Edgar Crowe, Annie Lawton, and W. Gillies Whittaker. Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) Music, it is a collection of 110 carefully graded folk tunes from various countries, designed for schools and colleges to develop sight-singing skills. Book 1 focuses on the simplest musical passages, including basic intervals (like the doh chord and scale), whole, half, and quarter notes and rests, and leaps of a third. It serves as the easiest volume in a progressive series that systematically guides students from basic melody reading to more complex rhythms and two-part singing.