Most pages of the Sing, Write, Play! Melody Speller feature small segments of familiar melodies. These segments help the student focus on and compare specific and common features of conventional melodies--for example, stepwise beginnings and endings.

The melodies employed in the Melody Speller are well-known children's and folk songs, the kind most students will already know by heart. Indeed, this is a fundamental part of the strategy of the Melody Speller and distinguishes it from melodic dictation.

The Sing, Write, Play! Melody Speller emphasizes working first from one's musical memory, only later checking one's work by playing it on an instrument. If students are not familiar with a song, or are not confident that they remember it accurately, they should of course be given the opportunity to hear it. This will also mitigate the problem of different students having learned the music slightly differently (e.g., some melodies are known in versions with dotted rhythms and without).

In this part of the Melody Speller Workshop we present (as midi files) all of the melodies or melody segments used in the Sing, Write, Play! Melody Speller, organized by page via the navigation above.