One Accord: Developing Part-Singing Skills in School Age Musicians

Georgia Newlin offers a proven, sequential process for teaching students part-singing skills over time that includes an extensive collection of reproducible scores for each step in the process. She offers activities and repertoire choices for choir directors and music teachers at elementary, middle school, and high school levels. This is a must-have book for anyone serious about cultivating part-singing skills in their students. Contents: Introduction Part-Singing Sequencing Tools for Teaching Part-Singing Skills Chapter 1: Teaching Procedures for Readiness Skills Chapter 2: Teaching Procedures for Singing Skills Chapter 3: Teaching Procedures for Rhythmic Part-work Skills Chapter 4: Teaching Procedures for Melodic Part-work skills Chapter 5: Teaching Procedures for Part-Singing Skills in Polyphony Chapter 6: Teaching Procedures for Part-Singing Skills in Homophony Alphabetical Song List Elementary School Song List Middle School Song List High School Song List Three Note Melodies Do-centered Melodies Blues Scale Melodies La-centered Melodies Modal & Mode-like Melodies Time Signatures Songs with Complete Texts or Additional Verses in Languages other than English Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: Resources Appendix C: Solfège Syllables Appendix D: Translation and Adaptation of Non-English Text Index of Topics and Song Titles