Table of Contents. Part I: The Teaching of Music. Acknowledgments...xiii Introduction by Heather J. Buchanan...xix CHAPTER 2

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1 Table of Contents Acknowledgments xiii Introduction by Heather J. Buchanan xix Part I: The Teaching of Music CHAPTER 1 DOES IT COMMUNICATE? FINDING MUSICAL NUANCE AND INSPIRATION THROUGH SCORE STUDY by Janet Galván Think Like a Composer: The Work of the Mind Think Like a Composer: Text (Read Like a Poet) Text, Harmonic Function, and Musical Pace Text and Instrumentation Text and Dynamics Text and Melodic Ideas Think Like a Composer: Present Like an Actor Think Like a Composer: Structure and the Role of Dynamics...12 Think Like a Composer: Illumination of Information to Facilitate Learning the Piece Think Like a Composer: Choice of Tempi Think Like a Composer: Rhythmic Structure and Movement...18 Think Like a Composer: Style, Cultural Context, and Movement Think Like a Composer: Coach Like a Voice Teacher Technique, Language, and Vocal Color Technique, Language, and Word Stress Sound Technique for Maximum Expression Think Like a Composer: Pitfalls on the Road to Phrasing Think Like a Composer: Direct Like a Creative Spirit CHAPTER 2 THE LITERATE CHOIR by James Jordan Introduction The Language Parallel What Is Literacy? Good Rote versus Bad Rote: Essentials of Music Understanding.36 What Is Essential to Begin the Music Listening Process? The New Role of the Choral Accompanist The Accompanist s Aural Cues: Wordless Clues to the Harmonic Structure In a Mode or Key versus On a Mode or Key What Is Essential to Become Musically Literate? The Human Dilemma of Listening v

2 Contents To Text or Not to Text: That Is the Question Resting Tone Harmonic versus Melodic Hearing The Dilemma and Challenge of the Major Ear The Acoustic Environment of the Choir The Alto-in-Front Seating Arrangement: Maximizing Your Choir s Sound and Hearing Potential Venturing into Solfege Choral Ensemble Pronunciation of Solfege Syllables Use of Solfege in Reading and Learning Choral Literature Pursue Rhythm and Pitch Issues from Different Pedagogical Approaches Understanding the Kinesthetic Structure of Rhythm: Teach Within a Consistent Tempo at All Times Muscle Coordination Development Rhythmic Response to External Music versus Internal Musical Impulse The Structure of Rhythm and Its Relation to Choral Rhythm Pedagogy Natural Body Response to Rhythm: The Foundation for Understanding Rhythm Layers of Rhythm Audiation The Role of Consistent Tempo in Music Performance and Music Learning The Use of a Metronome to Establish Communal Kinesthetic Tempo How Does Music Reading Evolve? Building Modal Aural Familiarity Skills Summary CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 PREPARING THE CHORUS FOR PERFORMANCE WITH ORCHESTRAL ACCOMPANIMENT by Ann Howard Jones Introduction Preparing for Another Conductor Preparing the Chorus for Your Own Performance THE CONDUCTOR S DREAM: SCORE-BASED IMAGINATION, IMPROVISATION, AND INSPIRATION by Jerry Blackstone Learn the Score From Big to Little Marking the Score Who? Why? When? Where? How? vi

3 Teaching Music through Performance in Choir: Volume 2 Imagining the Dream Building Your Dream Account The Score-Based Dream Show the Choir Your Dream Transform What Comes Back En (In)-Spiration Internalizing the Text Is It Fabulous? CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 COMPOSING, WORDS, MUSIC by Libby Larsen Words Are Music/Music Is Words Working for Musical Meaning with a Choir You ve Got Music and I Can Feel It Words Signify More than Their Definitions Three Audiences: Conductor, Attending Audience, and Choir.100 Composing with Musical Tools in Order to Suggest Meaning..100 Pitch Harmony Rhythm What Is Pulse? Beat? Rhythm? Vocal Range Breath and Breathing A Word about Warming Up to Rehearse a New Work ENHANCING MUSICAL PERFORMANCE THROUGH SOMATIC PEDAGOGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO BODY MAPPING FOR CHORAL CONDUCTORS by Heather J. Buchanan Introduction Body Mapping Why Body Mapping Musicians Move for a Living! Body Map Errors Training the Senses Training Movement Training Attention The Core of the Body The Places of Balance Breathing Gathering and Lengthening Breath Support A Valuable Pedagogical Tool Mind Body Spirit Music vii

4 Contents PART II: The Choral Conductor as Music Teacher Repertoire Resource Guides Introduction to the Repertoire Resource Guides LEVEL ONE I m Going Home on a Cloud arr. Deibler, Seán O Music Mason, Lowell/arr. Rao, Doreen Ose Shalom (The One Who Makes Peace) Leavitt, John The Path to the Moon Thiman, Eric The Turtle Dove arr. Spevacek, Linda Steen This Little Light of Mine arr. Berg, Ken Verleih uns Frieden Mendelssohn, Felix A New Year Carol from Friday Afternoons, Op. 7 Britten, Benjamin Hello, Girls arr. Pfautsch, Lloyd Song for the Mira MacGillivray, Allister/ arr. Calvert, Stuart Hard Times Come Again No More Foster, Stephen/ arr. Moore, Donald 189 Sea Shanties arr. Jeffers, Ron Steal Away arr. Dennard, Brazeal W LEVEL TWO April Is in My Mistress Face Morely, Thomas Black Is the Color of My True Love s Hair arr. Churchill, Stuart Bullerengue Rincón, José Antonio Christ lag in Todesbanden, No. 7 from Opella nova I Schein, Johann Hermann Down by the Riverside arr. Ames, Roger Famine Song VIDA/arr. Culloton, Matthew I ve Been Buked, Children! arr. Dilworth, Rollo A Lirum bililirum Mantovano, Rossino Mon coeur se recommande à vous Weckerlin, Jean-Baptiste Praise His Holy Name! Hampton, Keith Sounding Joy Walker, Gwyneth The Divine Image Shank, Joshua Three Madrigals Diemer, Emma Lou Yet Gentle Will the Griffen Be, No. 3 from What Grandpa Told the Children Nuñez, Francisco J viii

5 Teaching Music through Performance in Choir: Volume 2 I Am His Child Hogan, Moses I Once Loved a Lad arr. Neaum, Michael Ich wollt, meine Lieb Mendelssohn, Felix J entends le moulin arr. Patriquin, Donald Morning Moon Silvey, Philip E There Is Sweet Music Here Lightfoot, Mary Lynn Ave, maris stella Loomer, Diane Little Innocent Lamb arr. Bartholomew, Marshall Not While I m Around Sondheim, Stephen/arr. Page, Robert Sam Was a Man Persichetti, Vincent LEVEL THREE Ave Maria Busto, Javier Ave Maria Stravinsky, Igor Buffalo Gals arr. Chilcott, Bob Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina Martini, Giovanni Battista Five Hebrew Love Songs Whitacre, Eric Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal arr. Parker, Alice If Music Be the Food of Love Dickau, David Innisfree Custer, Gerald Ka Hia Manu Hatfield, Stephen Love and Pizen (Springfield Mountain), Op. 60, No. 3 Mechem, Kirke Love Walked In Gershwin, George/arr. Zegree, Steve O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht, BWV 118 Bach, Johann Sebastian O magnum mysterium Victoria, Tomás Luis de O Sing Joyfully Batten, Adrian Past Life Melodies Hopkins, Sarah Sing Me to Heaven Gawthrop, Daniel Suite Nordestina arr. Miranda, Ronaldo The Battle of Jericho arr. Hogan, Moses The Silver Swan Gibbons, Orlando Três Cantos Nativos arr. Leite, Marcos Ubi caritas Duruflé, Maurice Venite exultemus Domino Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon Verbum caro factum est Hassler, Hans Leo Heart We Will Forget Him Mulholland, James Messe basse Fauré, Gabriel Niska Banja arr. Page, Nick What ll I Do? Berlin, Irving/arr. Shaw, Kirby ix

6 Contents An die Frauen (To Women), Hob. XXVb:4 Haydn, Franz Joseph/ arr. Vancil, Gregory Beati mortui, Op. 115, No. 1 Mendelssohn, Felix/arr. Weber, M Brothers, Sing On! (A Choral Salutation) Grieg, Edvard/ arr. McKinney, Howard D I m A-Rollin arr. Rardin, Paul What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor arr. Parker, Alice and Shaw, Robert LEVEL FOUR A Choral Flourish Vaughan Williams, Ralph A Spotless Rose Morton, Graeme Amor de Mi Alma Stroope, Z. Randall An Elizabethan Spring Chatman, Stephen Cantemus! Bárdos, Lajos Daemon irrepit callidus Orbán, György Die mit Tränen säen, SWV 378 from Geistliche Chormusik, 1648 Schütz, Heinrich Four Pastorales Effinger, Cecil Four Slovak Folk Songs Bartók, Béla Geistliches Lied, Op. 30 Brahms, Johannes I Have Had Singing Sametz, Steven John the Revelator arr. Caldwell, Paul and Ivory, Sean La Muerte del Angel Piazzolla, Astor/arr. Zadoff, Néstor Let Down the Bars, O Death, Op. 8, No. 2 Barber, Samuel O magnum mysterium Lauridsen, Morten Sfogava con le stele Monteverdi, Claudio Sing Ye Praises to Our King, Op. 20, No. 4 Copland, Aaron The Blue Bird Stanford, Charles Villiers Three Whitman Settings Clausen, René Vorspruch from Mörike-Chorliederbuch, Op. 19 Distler, Hugo Las Amarillas Hatfield, Stephen O aula nobilis Mathias, William Salut au chevalier printemps, Op. 151, No. 2 Saint-Saëns, Camille Al naharot Bavel Rossi, Salamone/ed. Jacobson, Joshua R Manly Men Knecht, Kurt Psalm 117 Hoffman, Stanley Sehnsucht Schubert, Franz Shall I Compare Thee Paulus, Stephen x

7 Teaching Music through Performance in Choir: Volume 2 LEVEL FIVE Dieu! qu il la fait bon regarder from Trois Chansons de Charles d Orleans Debussy, Claude The Choir Inivisible Harris, Ron Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Set 3 Holst, Gustav Dúlamán McGlynn, Michael Varjele, Jumala, soasta (God, Protect Us from War) Tormis, Veljo Index by Title for Teaching Music through Performance in Choir: Volumes 1, Index by Publisher for Teaching Music through Performance in Choir: Volumes 1, Index by Composer and Arranger for Teaching Music through Performance in Choir: Volume Index by Title for Teaching Music through Performance in Choir: Volume About the Editors xi