Choral Sight Reading

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Choral Sight Reading

A Kodaly Perspective for Middle School to College-Level Choirs, Volume 2

Theory of music and musicology Choral music

Authors: Micheal Houlahan, Philip Tacka

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Collection: Kodaly Today Handbook Series

Language: English

Published by: Oxford University Press

Published on: 31st January 2023

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9780197550564


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.

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