University Press of America
Pages: 228
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Trim: 9 x 11
978-0-7618-6650-3 • Paperback • September 2015 • $59.99 • (£46.00)
978-0-7618-6651-0 • eBook • September 2015 • $57.00 • (£44.00)
Jennifer Scott Miceli, Ph.D. is Director of Music Education and Long Island Sound Vocal Jazz at LIU Post in Brookville, NY, where she also serves as Department Chair. Founding Director of Belle Voci Intergenerational Women’s Choir, Miceli is an experienced conference presenter maintaining an active guest conducting and choral adjudication schedule. A flutist and a singer, she lives in Huntington, New York with husband, James, and two dogs, Chi and Gertie.
Foreword
Acknowledgements
A Literature Based Approach
Bringing Meaning to Notation
Assessment
Skill Building Model
How To Use This Teacher’s Guide
1. The Sally Gardens
2. Marienwürmchen
3. Celtic Cradle Song
4. Ej, Lásko, Lásko
5. Who Can Sail?
6. Dodi Li
7. The Drunken Sailor
8. Old Joe Clark
9. Arirang
Miceli’s Skill Building Sequence for Choral Ensembles takes advantage of our greatest musical gifts - our voices, ears and bodies - and systematically trains them to associate sound and body movement to the symbols of the musical language, empowering the young musicians of today with the gift of language, so they can be a musically literate, musically fluent generation.
— Roger Treece, Composer/Conductor/Educator, Five-Time GRAMMY Nominee
Miceli's Skill Building Sequence for Choral Ensembles is a clear and comprehensive guide that masterfully combines enjoyable warm-up activities, skillful methods for developing music literacy, and authentic and logical performance measurements. This book accomplishes a natural sequence of learning through high quality literature. Educationally sound and incredibly valuable, it is the perfect resource for the children's choir director.
— Craig B. Knapp, Director, Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of New York Children's Treble Choirs, Choral Director, Joseph A. Edgar Intermediate School, Rocky Point School District
Music scholar, teacher and performer, Jennifer Scott Miceli contributes much to musical pedagogy in her Teacher’s Guide for Children’s Choir. It is an ingenious and imaginative volume, which will most certainly engage the minds and hearts of its users. Movement and healthy singing principles throughout a variety of illustrated musical periods, styles and cultures, enhance aural understanding of tonality and meter.
— Christine Radman, Julliard BM, MM, MASLP-CCC