Download or read book The Effect of Daily Sight Singing Exercises on the Sight Singing Ability of Middle School Choir Students written by Carolyn Ann Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Emphasis of Using Rhythms to Increase Sight singing Ability in Middle School Choral Students written by Robert Lee Coffman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates if training middle shool students with daily rhythm exercises would improve their sight-singing skills.
Download or read book The Effects of the Implementation of Daily Sight reading Training on Sight reading Audition Scores written by David R. Jensen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This quantitative study was conducted using both a ninth and tenth grade treble choir at Prairie Ridge High School in Crystal Lake, Illinois. The classes were assigned per their age to these elective courses. The study, from pre-test to post-test lasted eight weeks, during the first semester. After a pre-test using an amended version of the IMEA model of sight-singing examples was graded, the ninth grade, or experimental group, was presented with daily practice of tonal skills with a particular emphasis on sight-singing. The tenth grade, or control group, was only presented with tonal skills as they pertained to literature specific to their classroom work. This study hypothesized that when daily ear-training and sight-singing practices were used in class, improvements in students' sight-singing audition scores would be statistically significant. Data indicated that at the end of the treatment period, subjects receiving daily sight-singing training had significantly improved their abilities to intone pitch and delineate rhythms at sight when compared with those students who had not received said training. After eight weeks of training, students in the experimental group improved their mean score from 26.96 to 34.46 points of 60 available (significance measured at P(T
Download or read book Vocal Health and Pedagogy written by Robert Thayer Sataloff and published by Plural Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 1017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in one convenient volume, Vocal Health and Pedagogy: Science, Assessment, and Treatment, Third Edition answers every question you've ever had about the voice, from the physics of sounds, to vocal technique, to medications, to performance anxiety. It presents anatomical, physiological, and neurological considerations, as well as covers critical issues related to patient history, laryngeal function, the physical examination, and historical perspectives of vocal pedagogy. The first part of the book introduces basic concepts of voice science, assessment, and training. It focuses on the science behind the common problems that afflict voice users and enables understanding of the medical approach to problem analysis. The second part of the book contains additional information on the specific health and performance conditions that affect the voice and their assessment and treatment. It considers the medical and nonmedical issues affecting the human voice, including diagnosis and treatment of voice problems, the effects of physical injury, posture, pollutants and irritants, psychological effects, voice therapy, medication, and more. New to this edition: New chapters on topics such as pedagogy for children, the importance of studying music, laryngeal issues involving wind instrument performance, high-speed digital imaging, the evolution of technology, pediatric voice disorders, thyroid disorders, the vocal effects of birth control medications, and autoimmune disorders.Many chapters have been extensively revised to update previous content and add new information on material such as choral pedagogy for geriatric singers, World Trade Center syndrome, and laryngeal effects of asbestos exposure.Chapters on medications for performers have been revised to delete medications no longer used frequently and to add various medications and drug classes that were not included previously, as well as information on alternative and complementary medicines.References have been updated throughout to include discussion of new studies and a review of the latest literature, while also retaining the classic literature.Includes the most recent practices and techniques, the latest information on surgical and adjunctive therapy, and important changes in criteria and strategy. Vocal Health and Pedagogy: Science, Assessment, and Treatment, Third Edition is ideal for courses in vocal pedagogy and speech-language pathology. Additionally, it is a valuable resource for professional and amateur performers and their teachers.
Download or read book Choral Pedagogy Third Edition written by Brenda Smith and published by Plural Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choral Pedagogy, Third Edition, is the ideal text for voice teachers, choral conductors, church musicians, and professional and amateur singers who wish to develop strategies for lifelong singing. It concisely and clearly presents the principles of voice pedagogy from the perspective of both conducting and voice science in a user-friendly fashion, including helpful charts and simple anatomic diagrams. In addition, it offers teaching methods from history and philosophy, medical and voice science, and pedagogical concepts from active musical experts. Special attention is given to the needs of amateur singers and conductors. Topics covered include choral diction, posture and seating, rehearsal practices, and matters of vocal health. For the third edition, the authors have completely revised the text, updating the medical information and expanding the exercises. They have also added three new chapters: A chapter entitled "Singing in the 21st Century" that considers the vocal/choral demands of the choral repertoire being written in this century.A chapter on teaching young boys to sing written by Vic Oakes, the conductor of the Chattanooga Boys Choir.A chapter entitled "The Value of Lifelong Singing." With its updates and additions, Choral Pedagogy, Third Edition, is a valuable resource for students of choral conducting, music education, church music, and choral singing.
Download or read book Choral Pedagogy and the Older Singer written by Brenda Smith and published by Plural Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treatment of Voice Disorders Second Edition written by Robert Thayer Sataloff and published by Plural Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treatment of Voice Disorders, Second Edition presents the entire range of behavioral, medical, and surgical voice treatment options from the perspective of a variety of specialist practitioners with exceptional breadth and clarity. As suggested in the opening chapter, contemporary treatment of voice disorders draws on interdisciplinary expertise, and the book is true to that perspective. The team approach to voice treatment is realized through the contributions of laryngologists, speech-language pathologists, singing voice specialists, nurses, physiotherapists, acting voice trainers, and others. The reader will find discussion of various treatment procedures, including surgical, pharmacological, and behavioral. This text presents essential information that allows for the effective interaction of various specialties. For example, behavioral specialists can draw on the information that is given on surgery, trauma and injury, and medications. This book is at once a template for team-based treatment and a deep informational resource for treatment alternatives. Its scope and depth make it a book that the voice specialist will want to keep close at hand. New to this edition: New content on topics such as technology in the studio and pedagogy for children.Many topics have been expanded to highlight current practices, to include information published since the previous edition, and to present current management approaches.Chapters have been rewritten extensively to include the most current techniques and to reflect the latest beliefs and practices, as well as the most recent information from the evolving literature in this field.Chapter 16 on nutrition has been completely rewritten and includes important changes in criteria and strategy, reflecting developments in nutritional science over the past decade.New material on topics such as choral pedagogy for geriatric singers, laryngeal manipulation, and cosmetic procedures and their implications for voice professionals. Treatment of Voice Disorders, Second Edition is ideal for speech-language pathology students and clinicians and is suitable for classroom use as well as for reference. It is an essential volume for anyone concerned with voice disorders.
Download or read book The Effects of Learning Tonal Harmonic Function on the Sight Singing Skill of High School Students written by Victoria J. Furby and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Sight singing has long been a challenge for performing choral ensembles. Sight singing is defined as the ability to reproduce music symbols vocally at first sight by converting them into actual pitch sounds. Using the movable do system has provided many teachers with a method with which to teach sight singing in a choral setting. However, although many students have success with the movable do system there are still many strides to make in the teaching of sight singing. Prior research has suggested that students perform sight singing exercises more successfully with the addition of harmonic accompaniment to traditional movable do exercises. It has been hypothesized that knowledge of tonal harmonic function would improve students chances of sight singing success. This experiment was designed to teach twenty-six high school students using two different methods of instruction. Both groups received traditional sight singing instruction using movable do solfege and harmonic accompaniment. The treatment group received additional instruction in the form of tonal harmonic theory. Students were randomly assigned to each group and performed a pretest consisting of eight measures written in common time. Students then received ten weeks of instruction, consisting of two lessons a week for twenty minutes each lesson. At the conclusion of the instruction students performed a posttest similar to the pretest. After the experiment was concluded, two independent evaluators judged the pretests and posttests. Evaluators listened to tapes of the students' pretest and posttest performances and judged the number of pitches sung correctly by each student. There was no significant difference between groups on either the pretest or the posttest. However, when the groups were combined, there was a significant difference between the pretest and posttest performances.
Download or read book Sight singing written by Robert Lynn Glor and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of research-designed high school choral sight-sing exercises that include researcher-designed basic keyboard skills exercises. Fifteen weeks of SATB and SSA sight-singing exercises and basic keyboard skill exercises based on Georgia Music Educators Association Large Group Performance Evaluation guidelines were created and implemented with high school choral students (N= 66). An experimental group (N= 43) received instruction with sight-singing exercises and basic keyboard exercises. A control group (N= 23) received instruction in sight-singing. Students self-administered Vocal Sight-Reading Inventory (VSRI) Form A created by Henry (1999). Following the 15 weeks researcher-designed sight-singing exercises instruction, students self-administered Form B of the VSRI by Henry (1999). The researcher calculated a t-test to determine that the groups were fundamentally the same (t = 1.975, p = .053). Pre-test and post-test mean scores were compared using ANOVA. A significant effect was found for the difference in methods of the experimental and control groups (F (n,64) = 5.230, p = .026). A follow-up t-test was used to examine the mean scores of the post-test. Significance was established at
Download or read book The Effect of Music Learning Theory on Sight singing Ability of Middle School Students written by Nicole M. Kielczewski and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the study was to determine if tonal and rhythm pattern instruction and ear training exercises improve middle school students' sight-singing ability. Participants (N=73) were designated to a control or experimental group based on class schedule. Both groups received sight-singing instruction using sight-singing examples accompanied by the piano. Additionally, the experimental group was given tonal and rhythm pattern instruction, and ear training activities based on Music Learning Theory. Solfege syllables and hand signs designed by Zoltan Kodaly and John Curwen were also incorporated in sight-singing instruction for the experimental group to help with pitch accuracy. Each participant sang the assigned sight-singing test twice with resulting audio samples of 219 pre-test and post-test recordings. The assessment procedures for both tests were identical and the measurement tool's Cronbach's Alpha reliability was .88. Evaluation was based on the abilities to sing in tune, sing correct rhythms, and sing correct solfege syllables. Results indicate that after two weeks of instruction, both groups improved their sight-singing ability. The pre-test mean results shows that the control group scored significantly lower than the experimental group. Due to that significance, the post-test improvements in the experimental group did not surpass the gains in the control groups mean scores. Possible time restrictions of the study may have inhibited the improvement of the experimental group's scores.
Download or read book The Sight Singer Volume I Student Edition written by Audrey Snyder and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique two-volume sight-singing method, with one edition designed for the junior high/middle school and a second edition for upper elementary/middle school treble voices. Voice parts are not duplicated, thereby ensuring reading independence. It's fun, exciting, logical and sequential. A great way to teach sight-singing.
Download or read book measuring ability in sight singing written by earl k. billbrand and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Vocal Improvisation on Kod ly based Sight Singing Technique in High School Choral Music Students written by Brandon Michael Nonnemaker and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music literacy is a key component in a fully enriching music education. Nearly all pedagogical approaches emphasize music reading and writing. However, sight singing, a specialized component of music literacy, is a skill that remains a challenge for many young singers. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of vocal improvisation on Kod©Łly-based sight singing instruction for high school choral music students. Based on results of the AMMA (Advanced Measures of Music Audiation, Gordon, 1989), participants (n = 52) were assigned to an experimental group (n = 27) or control group (n = 25). Both groups received sight singing instruction using the Kod©Łly method. The instructional strategies associated with this method included (a) tonic solfa, (b) Curwen hand signs, and (c) Chev©♭ rhythm syllables. The experimental group, however, participated in researcher-compiled vocal improvisation activities for 10-15 minutes of the 30-minute lessons. Improvisation activities included (a) learning selected repertoire by rote, (b) sequentially developing a vocabulary of tonal syllables and rhythmic syllables, (c) improvising with voice and body percussion tonic, dominant, subdominant, and submediant tonal patterns within the context of major and minor tonalities, and (d) improvising with voice and body percussion macrobeat, microbeat, division, elongation, and rest rhythm patterns within the context of duple meter. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to determine if there were statistically significant differences between sight-singing performance pre-assessment and post-assessment, as well as pre-experiment and post-experiment AMMA administration. The Wilcoxon rank sum test was used to determine significant difference between control and experimental groups. Results suggest that regular sight singing instruction using the Kod©Łly method benefited sight singing achievement (pitch accuracy, rhythmic precision, intonation, tempo). Incorporating vocal improvisation helps students build rhythm and tonal vocabulary and aurally explore the functions of harmonic structure. These practices seem to benefit overall music audiation, particularly rhythmic audiation. Survey findings suggest students' perception of their sight singing ability and of their ability to "hear music internally" (audiate) are positively impacted by vocal improvisation practices.
Download or read book The Use of Student Self assessment of Sight Singing in a High School Choral Music Classroom written by Martha W. Springstead and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this research was to examine methods of sight singing assessment in the high school choral classroom, and to develop and test a tool for student self-assessment of sight singing skills for use in high school choral classes. Problems associated with this study included designing a method for students in a high school choral class to predict and assess their individual abilities in sight singing; to investigate the extent to which students in a high school choral class can detect their own errors and therefore self-correct errors made while sight singing; to determine the reliability between the students’ predictions of their abilities and their actual performance of sight singing exercises; and to prepare students, through the self-assessment process, to successfully sight sing music equivalent to the examples used in the All-Virginia Chorus auditions. The study included the participation of 24 students in a select high school choir who voluntarily participated in four vocal recording sessions. Students were given a sight singing exercise of four measures and asked to predict on a rating scale of 1-5, how well they thought they would be able to sing it. They circled their rating, and recorded the example, rating from 1-5 how well they thought they had sung it. They listened to their recording and circled the errors. Exercises were presented in four separate recording sessions, each exercise increasing in difficulty until they were equivalent in difficulty to exercises used in the All-Virginia Chorus auditions. Data were reviewed by a panel of two high school choral directors. The analysis supports both the hypotheses that: 1. The student can accurately predict their performance before sight singing an exercise. 2. The student can accurately assess their performance after sight singing the exercise. Following all four recording sessions, the tapes were reviewed by the instructor and also by a panel of two independent assessors. The analysis of the data associated with the four recording sessions confirms both hypotheses. The ability of the students to accurately predict their post test score was positively confirmed by the second analysis. Eighty of the possible eighty-six assessor scores were the same or higher than the students—93%. Only six of the 86 (7%) were assessed as lower than predicted by the student.
Download or read book The Effects on Sight Singing of Voice Class Instruction Utilizing Variants of Traditional Vocalises written by Eunice Ann Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Choral Approach to Sight Singing written by Emily Crocker and published by . This book was released on 1990-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an exciting easy-to-use sight-singing method for middle school/jr. high choirs that starts from square one, assuming no previous training. It is presented in a logical, sequenced order, with harmonically combinable exercises to develop rhythmic and melodic independence. The collection offers a variety of a cappella and accompanied songs for 3-Part Mixed voices in two sequenced volumes. Volumes I and II are available in Teacher's Edition and Singer's Edition 5-Pak, and contain complete vocal and piano parts. The Teacher's Edition additionally includes complete instruction for use of the method! Available: Teacher's Edition and Singer's Edition 5-Pak. For Gr. 6-9.
Download or read book The Effects of Two Methods for Teaching Sight singing on Junior High School Choir Students Sight singing Achievement written by Denise M. Bricher and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
