Most chapters on pitched materials also contain pitch patterns—patterns of scale degrees that include the chapter’s topic sound embedded within them. The method this book uses stresses the singing and recognition of scale degrees as the most accurate and reliable way to hear and sing musical structures; thus, these exercises give practice in hearing and singing structures as scale degrees. These are to be sung in an isorhythmic manner, utilizing a given rhythmic figure. The student should sing the pattern in the given rhythm until he or she can find a logical and intuitive way to cadence