Choral artistry : a Kodály perspective for middle school to college-level choirs /

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Includes bibliographical references and index.Volume 1. Framing a Choral Curriculum Based on the Kodály Approach -- Getting Started : What to Teach During the First Few Weeks of a Choral -- Laying the Foundations of Choral Singing Using Folk songs and Folk Song Arrangements -- Developing Part-work Skills in the Choral Rehearsal for Beginner -- Sound Ways to Develop Audiation, Reading, and Music Theory Skills in the Choral Rehearsal -- Music Theory and Sight Reading Sequence for Level 1 Choirs -- Music Theory and Sight Reading Sequence for Level 2 Choirs -- Music Theory and Sight Reading Sequence for Level 3 Choirs -- An Organic Approach to Teaching Sight-reading in the Choral Rehearsal -- How We Learn Impacts How We Teach: Creating an Effective Teaching -- Putting It All Together: Choral Strategies and Rehearsal Plans -- Evaluation and Assessment in the Choral Rehearsal.Volume 2. Phrase and Form -- Beat, Meter, Rhythm -- Simple Melodic Patterns -- Simple Rhythm Patterns: First Division of the Beat -- Orientation to the Pentatonic Scale: Trichord 1 -- Orientation to the Pentatonic Scale: Trichord 2 -- Simple Meter: Second Division of the Beat and Basic Patterns -- Major Pentatonic Melodies -- Simple Meter: Second Division of the Beat and More Complicated Patterns -- The Extended Pentatonic Scale -- Upbeats -- Syncopation -- Minor Pentatonic Melodies -- Dotted Notes -- Orientation to the Major Scale Pentachord and Hexachord Melodies -- Simple Meter: Second Division of the Beat and Dotted Note Combinations -- Major Scale -- Triple Meter and Changing Meter -- Orientation to Minor Scales -- Compound Meter: First Division of the Beat -- Natural Minor Scale -- Compound Meter: Second Division of the Beat -- Harmonic Minor Scale -- Compound Meter: Second Division of the Beat and Dotted Notes -- Melodic Minor Scale -- Renaissance Style Compositions -- Baroque Style Compositions -- Classical Style Compositions -- Romantic and Twentieth Century Style Compositions."The Oxford Guide to Choral Artistry, a Kodály Perspective for Middle School to College Level Choirs, is a practical and organic approach to teaching choral singing and sight-reading. The text is grounded in current research from choral pedagogy, music theory, music perception, and cognition. Topics include framing a 1) choral curriculum based on the Kodály concept, 2) launching the academic year for beginning, intermediate, and advanced choirs, 3) building part-work skills, 4) sight-reading, 5) a progressive music theory sequences for middle to college level choirs, 6) teaching strategies, 7) choral rehearsal plans as well samples of how to teach specific repertoire from Medieval to Contemporary Choral Composers. As part of the Kodály philosophy's practical approach, we include two models for learning choral literature. The first is a "Performance Through Sound Analysis" model for understanding Commercial, Global Folks, and arrangement. The second is a "Performance Through Sound Analysis and Notation" model for learning classical music and recently composed music. Both models delineate an approach to teaching a choral work that significantly improves students' musicianship while at the same time, engages 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. We hope that this book serves as a resource for choral directors and inspire further conversations and dialogue concerning the application of the Kodály perspective to choral singing. The research for these publications is not presented as exhaustive nor conclusive; it is offered as a foundation. We encourage our colleagues in the field to continue to add to this research"--