Solfege and Sonority : Teaching Music Reading in the Choral Classroom.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the Companion Website -- Introduction -- Music Vocabulary -- Building a Foundation -- Lesson 1: Teaching Do-Re-Mi -- Lesson 2: Teaching the Treble Clef and Letter Names -- Lesson 3A: Teaching the Quarter Note with Two Eighth Notes -- Lesson 3B: Teaching the Quarter Note with Quarter Rest and Two Eighth Notes -- Lesson 4: Combining Melody and Rhythm on the Staff -- Lesson 5A: Teaching Sol -- Lesson 5B: Teaching Fa and Sol Together -- Pause and Reminders: Introducing Melodic Tones and Rhythms -- Lesson 6: Teaching the Half Note -- Lesson 7: Teaching the Whole Note -- Lesson 8: Teaching La -- Lesson 9: Teaching Fa -- Lesson 10: Teaching Four Sixteenth Notes -- Lesson 11: Teaching High Do -- Lesson 12: Teaching the Eighth Note with Two Sixteenth Notes -- Lesson 13: Teaching Low La -- Lesson 14: Teaching Ti -- Lesson 15: Teaching the Dotted Quarter Note with an Eighth Note -- Lesson 16: Teaching the Dotted Eighth Note with a Sixteenth Note -- Lesson 17: Teaching Low Sol -- Lesson 18: Teaching the Minor Scale -- Lesson 19: Liebeslieder Walzer, by Johannes Brahms -- Lesson 20: Ear Training and Advanced Theory in the Rehearsal -- Appendix: Practice and Reinforcement Activities for Melody and Rhythm -- Scores Quoted -- Credits.

Solfege and Sonority is a guide for teaching music literacy in a choral rehearsal, with a focus on the needs of teachers who work with young singers. Longtime choral director and teacher David J. Xiques outlines 18 easy-to-use lessons for teachers and conductors and ties the lessons to the teacher's current repertoire.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.