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John Stevenson & Majorie Porterfield, Rhythm and Pitch: An Integrated Approach to Sightsinging. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1986, 298 pp. In this publication Stevenson and Porterfield have attempted to formulate a music reading text for tertiary students that carefully grades exercises in both rhythm and pitch. They believe that often, ’difficult rhythmic elements are incorporated much too early in the study of music reading.’ Each unit contains explanations of the rhythmic and melodic elements which are to be