Full Description
Choral Sight Reading 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.
This volume includes basic and advanced music theory concepts to develop fluent sight-reading skills for reading standard choral repertoire, providing examples for the process outlined in Chapters 6-8 of Volume 1 (Choral Artistry). This guide provides choral directors with a choral curriculum and choral rehearsal models that place performance, audiation, partwork, music theory, and sight-signing skills at the heart of the choral experience, through a 'sound thinking' approach to teaching that results in greater efficiency in creating independent choral singers with a well-rounded repertoire.
Contents
Unit 1 Phrase and Form
Unit 2 Beat, Meter, Rhythm
Unit 3 Simple Melodic Patterns
Unit 4 Simple Rhythm Patterns: First Division of the Beat
Unit 5 Orientation to the Pentatonic Scale: Trichord 1
Unit 6 Orientation to the Pentatonic Scale: Trichord 2
Unit 7 Simple Meter: Second Division of the Beat and Basic Patterns
Unit 8 Major Pentatonic Melodies
Unit 9 Simple Meter: Second Division of the Beat and More Complicated Patterns
Unit 10 The Extended Pentatonic Scale
Unit 11 Upbeats
Unit 12 Syncopation
Unit 13 Minor Pentatonic Melodies
Unit 14 Dotted Notes
Unit 15 Orientation to the Major Scale Pentachord and Hexachord Melodies
Unit 16 Simple Meter: Second Division of the Beat and Dotted Note Combinations
Unit 17 Major Scale
Unit 18 Triple Meter and Changing Meter
Unit 19 Orientation to Minor Scales
Unit 20 Compound Meter: First Division of the Beat
Unit 21 Natural Minor Scale
Unit 22 Compound Meter: Second Division of the Beat
Unit 23 Harmonic Minor Scale
Unit 24 Compound Meter: Second Division of the Beat and Dotted Notes
Unit 25 Melodic Minor Scale
Unit 26 Renaissance Style Compositions
Unit 27 Baroque Style Compositions
Unit 28 Classical Style Compositions
Unit 29 Romantic and Twentieth Century Style Compositions
