6. What types of choral ensembles are appropriate at the high school level?
A senior level concert choir would be an appropriate high school level ensemble. This ensemble would be audition based with both men and women. These students have the highest musical and singing achievement. Another ensemble would be the chamber singers ensemble, which a group of selected singers from the concert choir. This group is smaller and does music that would be less effective in a larger group. A general mixed choir should also be offered at the high school level. This group is open to all male and female students that would like to be in choir. Then a choral union group can be offered at the high school level, which includes a mixed chorus that are weaker singers. This group can combine with other choirs for performance but it gives weaker singers an opportunity to sing. Another opportunity for high school ensembles is to create men’s and women’s choirs. There are many different songs that can be used for both men’s and women’s choruses that may not be available for combined voices. Last, high school choral programs can have show choirs, swing choirs and jazz choirs. This encourages more popular singing and possibly dancing.
10. Why is early adolescence a difficult time for students to be in a mixed ensemble, and how can this situation be avoided?
Boys are can become self-conscious of sounding like girls or having their voices “crack” during adolescence. Girls have some voice changes but also have physical changes, which can make them feel self-conscious around boys. With this age group you can make a modified choir arrangement for seventh and eighth grade students. In this modified schedule the boys meet the same time as the gi...
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... and sight-singing. The way I look at the rating scale is 1 needs major improvement and 5 has been singing all their life.
19. What criteria can be used to classify voices?
In classifying voices you should consider range, tessitura, vocal quality, voice lifts and speaking pitch. The tessitura is the comfort zone for singing within the outer limits of their range. Students that have heavier, darker voices tend to be more basses, altos and mezzo sopranos. Students that have lighter, brighter voices are likely to be more of baritones, tenors and sopranos. You should also listen for lifts in a student’s voice show upper (head voice) and lower (chest voice) ranges.
20. What two things are needed to become efficient at choral auditioning?
It takes time and practice to become efficient at choral auditioning. You will not become a master at auditioning overnight.
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is one the world’s well-known choir since its one of the prominent and oldest. The choir started out as an insignificant group, but rapidly began to be more popular as the years progressed. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a chorus of 360 men and women in total. They have entertained millions of spectators by performing in places such as at the “World’s Fairs and expositions at inaugurations of U.S. presidents, in acclaimed concert halls from Australia and Europe to Asia and the Middle East” (Mormon). “In 1929, the Choir began broadcasting Music & The Spoken Word on radio” (Mormon). Now they have various radio and television stations. The Mormon Tabernacle has been broadcasted live all over television and several social media sites. They are also known as “America’s Choir” because people all over the world enjoy their harmonious music. Each member has a distinctive voice and their belief in god, makes this effort to influence others through music. The choir is “an ambassador for ‘The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” their music surpasses the traditional restrictions, which led to numerous people bonding universally through music. The Choir performs at least two sessions per year, and they also have a demanding calendar which they must follow. The Choir grew successful by the aptitude, commitment and dreams of its leaders. Every single person in the choir and others outside the Choir helped the Choir be cultivated and helped them develop into the enormous Choir that they are today. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir also has a school where students train known as The Temple Square Chorale. They aid students by assisting them with their vocal skills and music reading skills. When a...
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