Full Description
Choral Artistry provides a practical and organic approach to teaching choral singing and sight-reading. The text is grounded in current research from the fields of choral pedagogy, music theory, music perception and cognition. Topics include framing a choral curriculum based on the Kodály concept; launching the academic year for beginning, intermediate, and advanced choirs; building partwork skills; sight-reading; progressive music theory sequences for middle to college level choirs; teaching strategies; choral rehearsal plans as well as samples of how to teach specific repertoire from medieval to contemporary choral composers.
As part of the Kodály philosophy's practical approach, authors Micheál Houlahan and Philip Tacka employ two models for learning choral literature: Performance Through Sound Analysis Pedagogy (PTSA) and Performance through Sound Analysis and Notation (PTSAN). Both models delineate an approach to teaching a choral work that significantly improves students' musicianship while engaging the ensemble in learning the overall composition in partnership with the conductor. The final chapter of the book includes rubrics to assess the effectiveness of a choral program. This book does not purport to be a comprehensive choral pedagogy text. It is a detailed guide to helping choral directors at all levels improve the choral singing and musicianship of their students from a Kodály perspective.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction .
Chapter 1. Framing a Choral Curriculum Based on the Kodály Approach
Chapter 2: Getting Started: What to Teach During the First Few Weeks of a Choral Program
Chapter 3: Laying the Foundations of Choral Singing Using Folk songs and Folk Song Arrangements
Chapter 4. Developing Part-work Skills in the Choral Rehearsal for Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Choirs
Chapter 5: Sound Ways to Develop Audiation, Reading, and Music Theory Skills in the Choral Rehearsal
Chapter 6:Music Theory and Sight Reading Sequence for Level 1 Choirs
Chapter 7:Music Theory and Sight Reading Sequence for Level 2 Choirs
Chapter 8 : Music Theory and Sight Reading Sequence for Level 3 Choirs
Chapter 9: An Organic Approach to Teaching Sight-reading in the Choral Rehearsal
Chapter 10: How We Learn Impacts How We Teach: Creating an Effective Teaching Strategy for Choral Rehearsals
Chapter 11: Putting It All Together: Choral Strategies and Rehearsal Plans
Chapter 12. Evaluation and Assessment in the Choral Rehearsal
