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.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction .Chapter 1. Framing a Choral Curriculum Based on the Kodály ApproachChapter 2: Getting Started: What to Teach During the First Few Weeks of a Choral ProgramChapter 3: Laying the Foundations of Choral Singing Using Folk songs and Folk Song ArrangementsChapter 4. Developing Part-work Skills in the Choral Rehearsal for Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced ChoirsChapter 5: Sound Ways to Develop Audiation, Reading, and Music Theory Skills in the Choral RehearsalChapter 6:Music Theory and Sight Reading Sequence for Level 1 ChoirsChapter 7:Music Theory and Sight Reading Sequence for Level 2 ChoirsChapter 8 : Music Theory and Sight Reading Sequence for Level 3 ChoirsChapter 9: An Organic Approach to Teaching Sight-reading in the Choral RehearsalChapter 10: How We Learn Impacts How We Teach: Creating an Effective Teaching Strategy for Choral RehearsalsChapter 11: Putting It All Together: Choral Strategies and Rehearsal PlansChapter 12. Evaluation and Assessment in the Choral Rehearsal
