Teaching Your Choir to Think Chorally

1
Teaching Your Choir to Think Chorally 

• Session explores what it means to think
  chorally, moving from narrow focus, to broad
  understanding of singers contribution to
  performance

2
Balance and Blend and the Singers Place

• Responsibility for Balance?
• Responsibility for Blend?

3
Exploring What the Singer is Thinking

• Pitch and rhythm
• Once confident with pitch and rhythm, then
  what?

4
Singers place related to vibrato

• Speed of vibrato (no problem)
• Width of vibrato (problem)
• For conductor, vibrato is a matter of taste and
  tonal desire
• For singer, vibrato is a major responsibility

5
Singers place related to volume and timbre of
voice

• Determined by voice categorization-assign a role
  to the singer
• Assign useful labels to the voice for placement
  and color-assign a color

6
Singers place related to line placement

• Singer needs to know the line
• Singer needs to sing the line
• Singer needs to show the line