099. Diving into Music Literacy with Your Choir: Sound Before Sight

The Choir Director Corner Podcast

The question came from one of the members of our CDC Community Membership: "How, or where, do I start in teaching music literacy to my choir, when almost all of my singers are beginners when it comes to sightreading?" Our elementary general music colleagues know--it's all about starting with "sound before sight"! We need to give our singers an aural vocabulary to work from before we give them tools and strategies to start tackling music notation.
In my teaching I've developed a 5-stage process to get my singers from sound to sight, and I'm sharing that process with you in Episode 99 of the podcast. For each of these stages, I'm also sharing you an example of a rehearsal activity or game that I use to help move my singers down the road to being musically independent! If you're looking for guidance on how to get started working on music literacy with your choirs, or you want to make the music literacy work with your choirs more efficient and productive, then this episode is for you!
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Kapitel

1. 099. Diving into Music Literacy with Your Choir: Sound Before Sight (00:00:00)

2. Choir Director's Guide to Music Literacy (00:00:13)

3. Pitch Training Through Fun Games (00:07:52)

4. Translating Solfège Into Notation Practice (00:18:30)

5. Sound to Sight Music Literacy Process (00:27:12)

6. Choir Director Corner Community Membership (00:37:45)