American Choral Directors Association
The mission of ACDA is to inspire excellence and nurture lifelong involvement in choral music for everyone through education, performance, composition and advocacy.
This workshop acquaints choral conductors with the tools and materials needed to integrate sight-singing instruction into rehearsals. First, an overview of an effective choral rehearsal plan, which includes warm-ups, tuning exercises, sight-singing, and rehearsing of literature, will be delineated. Next, the sight-singing portion of the rehearsal will be carefully examined. Tools for teaching sight-singing, including […]
Des Moines IA.As a middle-level choral music educator, I wanted to break the stereotype of singers and musicians being mutually exclusive terms. I was tired of having classes of fifty plus and not knowing my students as musicians, as well as spending so much time developing the concert without developing the musician. Through a classroom routine paradigm […]
Des Moines IA.We all realize that boys and girls are different, but do we understand the true nature of those differences and what we can do to teach effectively to those differences? This session will expose the importance of sex and gender differences between boys and girls that can potentially aide the success of directors and students […]
Jacksonville FL.This session will present techniques, strategies, tips, tools, and resources for creating and developing a comprehensive sight-singing curriculum in the choral classroom. Special attention will be given to teaching beginning singers with no background in sight-singing. Topics to be discussed include the role and methods of individual assessment, unison and harmonic sight-singing, incorporating reading skills […]
Jacksonville FL.Using solfège and popular songs to learn progressions is a great introduction to improvisational techniques. This session will use I-V-vi-IV to experiment with rhythm and melodies. From that gateway activity we can move to circle songs and vocal improvisation over other progressions. The goal is that activities such as this can help students to create […]
Jacksonville FL.In community children/youth choirs and school elementary choirs, time is at a premium. It is imperative, both for the musical development of our students and the growth of our programs, that our singers start to become musically literate right from the beginning. Using an active three-step process rooted in Orff, Kodály, and Dalcroze philosophies, this […]
Cincinnati OH.
