Need more young men in your choirs? This session offers practical ideas from a director who started with eleven men and grew them to 100! Once you bring them into your choir room, how can you keep them, train them, and get them hooked so they become your future ambassadors for choral music? Repertoire will […]
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Vocal Terminology: Finding Common Ground and Synergy between Choral Directors and Teachers of Singing
As teachers of singing, choral directors and applied voice teachers have much in common. Tensions, however, often develop between choral directors and private singing teachers simply due to misunderstandings that occur as a result of using different terminology to describe vocal phenomena. This Presentation—based in part on the research published in Hoch’s book, A Dictionary […]
Using the iPad and ForScore in the Choral Classroom
This session will include a demonstration of the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil with ForScore as a rehearsal and performance music folder. Advantages discussed include compact size, ease of use, integrated elements (pitch wheel, metronome), redundancy, ease of transmission and annotation, and display to the ensemble in rehearsal. Conversion from internet sources (such as ChoralPublic […]
Teaching Methods for Beginning Chorus from an Inner-City Urban High School Music Classroom Perspective
What type of repertoire do we teach? How can we create excitement around singing and learning music? As choir directors, these questions are essential to our preparation before west and in front of our choirs. We must choose repertoire that will develop our students’ music skills in addition to creating excitement about music making and […]
Sight-Singing Success: Tools and Strategies for Engaging, Sequential, Daily Instruction
This session will focus on effective strategies for developing engaged, “hands-free” sight-singing practice incorporating chromatic solfège, Curwen’s hand signs, and Gordon’s audiation techniques. The session will highlight the use of classroom technologies including LCD projectors, document cameras, and internet resources as tools for teaching and assessing daily sequential sight-singing practice. Handouts will provide attendees with […]
The Secret of Singing is in the Breathing
With healthy breathing habits, choirs of all ages and skill levels can achieve beautiful tone, impeccable intonation, and expressive phrasing. This session will provide a variety of practical breathing exercises, vocal warm-ups, rehearsal techniques, and conducting gestures that will transform the way the singers in your choirs use their air and make the music come […]
