Chapter 9, Stayin' Alive (p. 79)

1) Imagine the sound of Stayin’ alive by the Beegees.

2) Sing it out and loud.

3) Listen to the original below.

The prediction is that you sang it in the same tempo and at about the same pitch.

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Chapter 10, Figure 10.1 (p. 87)

Sound Examples and Demonstrations

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Chapter 5, Billie Holiday (p. 39)

“Ooh-ooh-ooh”—we “heard” this earlier in the chapter. These are the opening sounds of a recording by Billie Holiday, the jazz singer who was all the rage in the 1950s. They were followed by the beguilingly rhyming “what a little moonlight can do-oo-oo” : words and sounds that can instantly brighten your spirits...

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