This session will focus on melodic reading and the implementation of tonal, rhythm, and melodic reading to choral repertoire via curriculum maps that specifically outline the literacy process for each octavo.
Madison, WICarol Krueger
Music Education
Building Literacy and Musicianship Skills into the Choral Rehearsal: Tonal
In this session, the sound-to-symbol learning sequence will be applied to tonal reading. To aid the development of aural/oral tonal skills, a sequence of vocal pitch exercises will be presented in a graphic form that can be utilized via overhead transparencies or an LCD project. Teaching strategies and activities for developing tonal audition, musical memory, […]
Madison, WICarol Krueger
Building Literacy and Musicianship Skills into the Choral Rehearsal: Takadimi and Beyond
Working from the premise that singers learn musical skills in much the same order as they do language skills, participants will explore how we learn music through hearing and imitating patterns before reading and writing. The Takadimi rhythm-pedagogy system will be addressed and specific techniques for developing rhythm reading readiness, literacy, audition, musical memory, dictation, […]
Madison, WICarol Krueger
Sight-Singing Skills: Isolating Pitch Successfully
To teach sight-singing successfully, teachers must place their pedagogical skills in an appropriate order, identify the necessary tools, and isolate the sequential strategies. Using a movable tonic format, the clinician will help participants discover the steps and techniques required to teach pitch development skills and notation reading skills. Echo-sing, hand signs, audiation, modified staff, dictation, […]
Seattle WA.Alan C. McClung
Choir is … The Meanings of the Choral Experience, grades 7-12
The purpose of this session is to empower those who work with students in grades 7–12 with an understanding of what students discover and come to value in the artistic choral experience. Over 200 responses were collected from singers.These findings have practical application and relevance for educators as they plan for instruction and shape their […]
Seattle WA.Andrea Ramsey
Bivocational Music Teaching: Liminal Spaces Between Church and School
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore the intersecting landscapes of five public school music teachers who also served as church choir directors. A specific focus was placed on how bivocational participants performed dual roles in two different contexts, and how they called upon their own preparation in music and pedagogy to […]
