This flexible collection offers a wealth of excellent material for singing in rounds. All of the standard rounds are represented, including many by master composers. There are separate listings of rounds with sacred texts, rounds with secular texts, rounds about animals and bells, Christmas rounds, rounds in foreign languages, lullabies, and many more.
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Further exercises using sound gestures (clapping, stamping, etc.). German text.
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CANTABILE - Voice Class textbook is clearly and concisely written for 21st century undergraduate voice students. Already tested in lower division voice classes, students' response was overwhelmingly enthusiastic. Twelve foundational “anchors” of voice study are presented with accompanying vocal exercises that build competency and confidence from the first use. In addition to “anchors” on vocal technique, topics such as Deliberate Practice, Musical Expression and Vocal Health are covered. The text is engaging and well-illustrated with photos, drawings and icons.
CANTABILE - Voice Class follows on the success of CANTABILE - A Manual About Beautiful Singing, a comprehensive volume that is now the preferred pedagogy course text for vocal study in studios and colleges throughout the United States and abroad. Instructors will find both texts invaluable. The concise format of CANTABILE - Voice Class makes it particularly attractive for a semester voice class and as supplementary material for choral groups and choral pedagogy classes.
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The Kodaly Choral Method is a comprehensive series of progressive songs and sight-singing exercises designed to promote a thorough understanding of interval and tonality. By incorporating a wide range of Hungarian folk music and poetry, Kodaly has produced a stimulating addition to the repertoire of school and amateur choirs.
This collection of 333 reading exercises is the revised English Edition, taken from the 1966 Hungarian Edition.
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This is the rhythm game you've been waiting for! The rhythms are divided into two levels of difficulty and each of the 48 cards features a common rhythm pattern. Both sides of the cards are laminated for durability and for use with wipe-away dry erase markers. This allows you to create your own rhythm patterns for students to read, or for the students to use in learning to write notes and rhythms, rhythmic dictation, and a variety of other fun rhythm activities.
Grades 3-8.
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This valuable song resource contains a wealth of material for classroom singing and reading. The collection is organized into a Kodály sequence, beginning with the simplest pentatonic tunes and progressing into full diatonic melodies. Other helpful features include lists of rhythmic characteristics, ranges and intervals. Games are included with many songs. A must for every classroom!
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As any middle school choir director knows, change is the name of the game! A changing voice is just one of countless physiological and emotional changes that middle school students experience. Knowing the general limits of male and female changing voices, as well as the specific capabilities of your students, are two keys to building healthy-and happy!-middle school singers. This book is an accessible, must-read resource for any middle-school choir director looking to foster stronger, more capable musicians, and offers 25 warm-up exercises along with customized grade-specific tips for using them along with free access to accompanying audio recordings.
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Bicinia Hungarica provides a welcome introduction to elementary two-part singing. These works are not merely exercises, but miniatures of a great composer, which may serve as an introduction to his larger works, and to many aspects of 20th century music.
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Choral rounds have been used for recreational singing for hundreds of years and are effective tools for your students to understand harmony, expand their vocal ranges, and experience a choral sound that is easily accessible to them. Music educators can satisfy state and national music standards with a carefully crafted choral curriculum, bringing choir back into the daily classroom schedule. By using rounds as warm-ups, you can teach vocal technique, music theory, application, appreciation, and history, as well as increase your singers' understanding of scales, intervals, modes, dynamics, and terminology.
Each round in this collection has instructions on the musical focus and implementation of the song. Additional comments give insight into the historical background or practical tips for a successful performance. Several rounds were intentionally included for adolescent boys with a limited range.
Warming Up with Rounds includes both familiar and rare rounds that are easy and challenging, as well as serious and fun. Music teachers and their students will enjoy discovering the secrets that choral rounds offer and ultimately feel a great sense of accomplishment when they make beautiful, harmonious music together.
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Imagine - learning to sight read while having fun! Singers will grasp concepts quickly while singing “real music” from day one. This step-by-step method includes fun songs with lyrics, dynamics, and accompaniment, along with prepatory exercises that are interesting, authentic, and flexible. This resource may be used with beginners of any age. The sequential approach focuses on the keys of C, F, and G major, basic rhythms, and simple intervals in the tonic, dominant, and subdominant chords.
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Teacher and performer Doug Goodkin presents an overview of the dynamic approach to music education known as Orff Schulwerk. In this comprehensive look at the many facets of this timeless practice, the author hopes to re-imagine its import in the lives of children, schools and culture at large in contemporary times.
Carl Orff's educational ideas could not have an advocate more well equipped by fortune and disposition. Inspired initially by Avon Gillespie, who embodied playing, singing and dancing, Doug Goodkin also brings to his teaching a first-hand, intensive experience of the indigenous music and dance of many continents and peoples. –Margaret Murray
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This fine collection of songs is a sequel to 150 American Folk Songs edited by Peter Erdei. It includes pentatonic and diatonic melodies as well as minor and modal songs. A helpful Kodály sequence is included and many songs include games, making this an ideal classroom resource.
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An inspired and fresh approach on building tone and ensemble resonance with male singers! With you as their personal trainer, this book provides daily “workouts” for your guys to help them develop a vibrant, healthy, and mature sound through proper vocal technique. This resource includes notated warm-up examples and photos with descriptive, enthusiastic teaching ideas. Topics include Body, Breath, & Energy; Muscles & Movement; Exploring the Voice; Finding & Activating Resonance; Focusing the Resonance; Tuning the Resonance; and Repertoire/Rehearsal Ideas. An appendix of “tried-and-true” suggested repertoire for middle, high school, and collegiate male vocal ensembles is included. An enjoyable, yet practical guide for anyone working with male voices!
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This comprehensive series of progressive songs and sight-singing exercises is designed to promote a thorough understanding of interval and tonality. By incorporating a wide range of Hungarian folk music and poetry, Kodály has produced a stimulating addition to the repertoire of school and amateur choirs.
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From the Kodály Choral Method, these fifteen exercises constitute a progressive course in two-part singing following the two-part exercises in intonation from “Let Us Sing Correctly” (48009982). This collection also serves as an introduction to the five volumes of two-part exercises (22, 33, 44, 55, 66).
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