Skill Building Sequence for Choral Ensembles: Teacher’s Guide for Children’s Choir

Jennifer Miceli

doi:10.5771/9780761866510

Summary

The ability to bring meaning to music notation without the assistance of an accompanist playing choral parts is a requisite skill on a musician’s journey to self-reliance and full artistic expression. Despite its importance, high performance expectations pose a challenge for choir directors to allocate discrete rehearsal time to music reading skill development. Consider for a moment an embedded music reading system that facilitates choristers’ ability to read their choral octavos; a process that develops rhythm and tonal musicianship and gives choristers the tools they need to learn music on their own. This bookintroduces an adaptable, literature-based choral music reading approach that empowers young singers with music literacy skills that point beyond the choral rehearsal and encourage independent and group music making for a lifetime.

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Edition: 1/2015
Copyright Year: 2015
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-6650-3
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-6651-0
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 220
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgements No access
A Literature Based Approach No access Pages 1 - 1
Bringing Meaning to Notation No access Pages 2 - 2
Assessment No access Pages 3 - 4
Skill Building Model No access Pages 5 - 5
How To Use This Teacher’s Guide No access Pages 6 - 12
1. The Sally Gardens No access Pages 13 - 26
2. Marienwürmchen No access Pages 27 - 42
3. Celtic Cradle Song No access Pages 43 - 62
4. Ej, Lásko, Lásko No access Pages 63 - 88
5. Who Can Sail? No access Pages 89 - 120
6. Dodi Li No access Pages 121 - 142
7. The Drunken Sailor No access Pages 143 - 164
8. Old Joe Clark No access Pages 165 - 194
9. Arirang No access Pages 195 - 220