Skill Building Sequence for Choral Ensembles: Teacher's Guide for Children's Choir: Volume 1

by Jennifer Miceli

Overview

The ability to bring meaning to music notation without the assistance of an accompanist playing choral parts is a requisite skill on a musician’s journey to self-reliance and full artistic expression. Despite its importance, high performance expectations pose a challenge for choir directors to allocate discrete rehearsal time to music reading skill development. Consider for a moment an embedded music reading system that facilitates choristers’ ability to read their choral octavos; a process that develops rhythm and tonal musicianship and gives choristers the tools they need to learn music on their own. This bookintroduces an adaptable, literature-based choral music reading approach that empowers young singers with music literacy skills that point beyond the choral rehearsal and encourage independent and group music making for a lifetime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761866510
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/21/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	228
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

Jennifer Scott Miceli, Ph.D. is Director of Music Education and Long Island Sound Vocal Jazz at LIU Post in Brookville, NY, where she also serves as Department Chair. Founding Director of Belle Voci Intergenerational Women’s Choir, Miceli is an experienced conference presenter maintaining an active guest conducting and choral adjudication schedule. A flutist and a singer, she lives in Huntington, New York with husband, James, and two dogs, Chi and Gertie.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
A Literature Based Approach
Bringing Meaning to Notation
Assessment
Skill Building Model
How To Use This Teacher’s Guide
1. The Sally Gardens
2. Marienwürmchen
3. Celtic Cradle Song
4. Ej, Lásko, Lásko
5. Who Can Sail?
6. Dodi Li
7. The Drunken Sailor
8. Old Joe Clark
9. Arirang

Editorial Reviews

Music scholar, teacher and performer, Jennifer Scott Miceli contributes much to musical pedagogy in her Teacher’s Guide for Children’s Choir. It is an ingenious and imaginative volume, which will most certainly engage the minds and hearts of its users. Movement and healthy singing principles throughout a variety of illustrated musical periods, styles and cultures, enhance aural understanding of tonality and meter.

Christine Radman

Miceli's Skill Building Sequence for Choral Ensembles is a clear and comprehensive guide that masterfully combines enjoyable warm-up activities, skillful methods for developing music literacy, and authentic and logical performance measurements. This book accomplishes a natural sequence of learning through high quality literature. Educationally sound and incredibly valuable, it is the perfect resource for the children's choir director.

Craig B. Knapp

Miceli’s Skill Building Sequence for Choral Ensembles takes advantage of our greatest musical gifts - our voices, ears and bodies - and systematically trains them to associate sound and body movement to the symbols of the musical language, empowering the young musicians of today with the gift of language, so they can be a musically literate, musically fluent generation.

Roger Treece