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.
In reading this chapter I came to acknowledge a lot facts that I didn’t realize about the British Zulu war. The battle at Rorke’s drift, and the battle at Isandhlwana are the chapter main focus in book Carnage and Culture. It gave multitudes of information that went well in detail about the battles. After reading the chapter, and researching the information on the war, and comparing the information presented by Victor Davis Hanson I found the information insightful and correct. He backs up his statements with facts and explains how western military forces were so dominate because of tactics, discipline and technology.
The films “The Birds” and “Psycho” do not portray your typical family and clearly have some dysfunctionalism going on. Throughout the film In “The Birds” Mitch continually refers to his own mother as “darling” and “dear” – clearly this is a sign of an enmeshed dysfunctional relationship between mother and son. Mitch and his mother Lydia’s relationship has more of a husband and wife's role; for example, when Mitch and Lydia wash dishes, their conversation is like husband and wife. There are three relationships with Mitch that are disrupted by Melanie’s arrival in Bodega Bay; Lydia, Annie, and Cathy. The first attack comes to Cathy’s birthday party, which Melanie attends. While Cathy welcomes Melanie she seems to subconsciously harboring the fear that her brother’s affections will be replaced by Melanie. The other attack comes after Melanie leaves the lovebirds for Cathy; the seagull’s attack is a warning shot that Melanie ignores. When the birds attack the schoolchildren, it's after Melanie has arrived at the school to pick up Mitch's sister. Another warning shot arrives as another gull slams itself into Annie’s front door when Melanie invades Annie’s territory by choosing to board with her for the night. During another attack, Annie is killed, leaving Melanie to take her place. Mitch's mother Lydia, a woman portrayed as cold to anyone not in her immediate family, and especially cold to other women who might have an interest in her son. The bird attacks are just a metaphor for Melanie's "invasion" of the peaceful world of Mitch & his family, a world that seems peaceful on the surface but in fact has all these repressed feelings and anxieties bubbling underneath. Every scene in the film is about Melanie's "invasion" of M...
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On a Wednesday night I saw Texas State Theatre and Dance Department's performance of A Chorus Line. The main plot of the musical entails the audition of 17 dancers for several Broadway roles on the chorus line. However, during their auditions the director Zach asks for personal stories of each dancer's life. Though the plot of this musical is seemingly simple in its twist on the traditional audition, it explores themes that reveal the human experience, the search for individuality, and the sense of self.
I believe our choir is filled with ambitious and talented young ladies. With confidence, focus, and the desire to succeed; I think our choir could be unstoppable. In order to perform to the best of our ability, there are a few things we need to fix in our songs.
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"Chorus in Greek Theater." Encyclopedia of Ancient Literature, Second Edition. Facts On File, 2014. Ancient and Medieval History Online. Web. 16 Nov. 2015. A typical chorus is a group of singers usually performing with an orchestra, and is refer to by most people in modern day time as a choir. In Ancient Greek a chorus is usually consist of a group of men who would sang and danced. According to Facts On File “s Greek theater had its origins in religious liturgy, the chorus also sprang from associated ritual occasions and participated in both tragic and comic performances.” Greek theater can be compared the most to opera because of the characteristic that it holds. The choral parts were chanted then followed by danced with either half or the
When people think of school classrooms, their first thought is of boys and girls together as a group of students. However, educational experts are now questioning whether it would be more beneficial for each gender, of all ages, to attend single-gender schools. Even though some experts are pro single-gender classrooms, there are others who are against this type of schooling.