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Essential Musicianship: A Comprehensive Choral Method - Book 1 Teacher's Edition

Introduction
To The Teacher
How To Use This Book
Lesson Plans
Effective Teaching Checklist
National Standards For Arts Education
Goals And Overview
Voice: Posture - Breath - Tone
Theory: Rhythm - Beat - Note Values (quarter, half, whole)
Sight-Reading: Pitch Drills
Goals and Overview
Voice: Five Basic Vowels (ee, eh, ah, oh, oo)
Theory: Basic Notation (staff, clefs, note names)
Sight-Reading: Pitch Drills
Goals and Overview
Voice: Breath Support (diaphragm)
Theory: Measure - Meter - Barlines
Sight-Reading: Rhythm Practice - Pitch Practice
Performance Speech Chorus
Months of the Year
Goals and Overview
Voice: Review
Theory : Review
Sight-Reading: Rhythm Practice - Pitch Practice
Performance: Speech Chorus
Tongue Twister
Goals and Overview
Voice: Practice (posture, breath, and vowel shape)
Theory: Pitch - Scale - Key of C Major
Sight-Reading: Pitch Drills - Combine Rhythm and Pitch
Performance: Short Songs With Text - Accompanied Song
Proverbs (unison)
Follow Me (unison)
Voice: Practice (posture, breath, and bowel shape)
Theory: Whole Steps and Half Steps
Sight-Reading: Whole/Half Step Drill and Excercises
Performance: Singing In Parts
Treble
Tenor Bass
Mixed
Goals and Overview
Voice: Practice (posture, breath and vowel shape)
Theory: Review
Sight-Reading: Practice (pitch and rhythm)
Performance: A Cappella Songs
Treble: Sing Alleluia
Tenor Bass: Sing Alleluia
Mixed: Winter
Goals and Overview
Voice: Practice (posture, breath, vowels) - Articulation
Theory: Sharps and Flats - Key Of G Major
Sight-Reading: Pitch Drills - Excercises
Performance: A Cappella Songs
Treble: Erin
Tenor Bass: Shipwrecked
Mixed: Sing Your Songs
Goals and Overview
Voice: Practice (posture, breath, vowels, articulation)
Theory: Accidentals - Key Signature
Sight-Reading: Pitch Drills - Excercises
Performance: A Cappella Cannon
Joyfully Sing (3-Part, any combination)
Goals and Overview
Voice: The Breathing Process
Theory: Rests (quarter, half, whole)
Sight-Reading: Rhythm Drills with Rests
Performance: Speech Chorus
Animal Song (4-part, any combination)
Goals and Overview
Voice: Review
Theory: Review
Sight-Reading: Excercises
Performance: Accompanied Song
Rain (unison)
Goals and Overview
Voice: Vocalization
Theory: Melodic Intervals
Sight-Reading: Melodic Interval Practice (C Major, G Major)
Performance: A Cappella Songs
Treble: Sing Hosanna
Tenor Bass: Sing Hosanna
Mixed: Sing Hosanna
Goals And Overview
Voice: Review of Vowels - Additional Vowel Sounds
Theory: Harmonic Intervals
Sight-Reading: Practice with Harmonic Intervals
Performance: Accompanied Song
Dance! (SA, TB, or SATB)
Goals and Overview
Voice: Posture - Breath - The Neutral Vowel (upsidown e)
Theory: Triads - The Tonic Chord
Sight-Reading: Tonic Chord Practice - "Pickup" Notes
Performance: Accompanied Songs
Treble: King William
Tenor Bass: King William
Mixed: Hosanna
Goals and Overview
Voice: Dipthongs
Theory: Key of F Major - Dotted Half Notes
Sight-Reading: Chord Drills - Exercises in 3/4 and 4/4
Performance: A Cappella Songs
Treble: Love In Thy Youth
Tenor Bass: As The Holly Groweth Green
Mixed: The Call
Goals and Overview
Voice: Articulation ("t" and "d")
Theory: Eight Notes and Rests - Beat/Division of Beat
Sight-Reading: Rhythm Drills
Performance: Speech Chorus
Hey Diddle Diddle (2-Part, any combination)
Goals and Overview
Voice: Review
Theory: Review
Sight-Reading: Practice
Performance: A Cappella Songs
Treble: Let Us Chase The Squirrel
Tenor Bass: Leave Her, Johnny
Mixed: Betty Botter
Goals and Overview
Voice: Articulation (singing R)
Theory: Meter - Downbeat/Secondary Stress
Sight-Reading: Practice with Changing Meters
Performance A Cappella Song
Alleluia (SA, TB, or SATB)
Goals And Overview

"Essential Musicianship, Book 1," recommended for Grades 6-8 or other beginning groups, is a sequential choral method that helps the beginning singer develop a strong foundation of musical skills. In each of the twenty chapters a concept is presented in the theory section, practiced in the sight-reading section, and applied in the performance of a song. The Teacher Edition provides comprehensive lesson plans based on the National Standards for Arts Education.

Item code: 6361B | Book | $19.95 add item to cart
Choral  | 224 Pages | Softcover | 8 x 11
073999401035 | 0793543320 | 08740103

Music series: Essential Musicianship

Related: Choral Methods



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