Danny Miller

MUSE 258
Dr. Ester
5/1/17

Resource File

Vocal Technique

Haaseman, Fauke; Jordan, James. Group Vocal Technique. Hinshaw

Music Inc., 1991. Print.

This resource is extremely useful to me as a future educator. It

addresses the key areas of vocal technique including respiration,

phonation, resonant tone production and diction. These areas make up

what it means to be singers and masters of vocal technique. The book

goes into great detail about what all the areas of vocal technique

mean and it has wonderful specific information about how each

process works. I believe this source is something that music teachers

should have to reference because of its good information and then use

that information to teach students. Im not sure it would be a good

read for students without prior instruction from the teacher.

Robinson, Russell, and Jay Althouse. The Complete Choral Warm-up

Book: A

Sourcebook for Choral Directors. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Music,

1995. Print.

This resource is particularly useful for me as future choral educator.

This book includes many warm-ups and vocal technique exercises that
I can use in the classroom. It has a wide range of exercises that span

across many categories for multiple different purposes. Some of these

include vowel exercises, rounds, and physical activities. All of these

are explained in much detail and they have pictures to facilitate. I

believe this is another book that is of great use for the educator but

not so much for the students. I would definitely like to have something

like this for my use when I am in the field, but my students wouldnt

necessarily benefit from reading it. They would benefit much more

from me teaching it as they participate in it.

Music Literacy

Bauguess, David. The Jenson Sight Singing Course. Place of Publication

Not Identified:

Hal Leonard, 1999. Print.

This is another resource that has multiple different exercises but for

music literacy skills rather than warm-ups. It takes the reader through

different levels of sight-singing beginning with the most basic patterns

for young learners and ending with much more complex melodic

exercises. It alternates between rhythm and tonal patterns, which is

useful when teaching students how to sight-read. This is a book I

intend on referencing in the future and I believe I might use some of

the exercises provided in this book to help facilitate teaching my

students music literacy. My students would not necessarily benefit

from reading this book, but rather they would benefit from practicing

the exercises in it.

Cole, Samuel W., and Lewis R. Leo. Melodia, a Comprehensive Course

in Sight-singing (solfeggio). Philadelphia: Oliver Ditson, 1903. Print.

This book is another great resource for looking up exercises to do in

the classroom relating to music literacy. It has exercises to improve

sight-reading skills and it even has strategies for students who may be

struggling with pitch and rhythm skills. This is definitely a book that I

would want to reference as a music educator because of its emphasis

on sight-reading. I want my students to be as musically literate as

possible and this book is a great tool to get that process started. Yet

again this book is a great tool for me as an educator but my students

would benefit from it more by just participating in class while I teach

the skills learned from the book.