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Beautiful Singing in the Music Classroom Lynette S. Stalls, Ph.D., [email protected]

Baker Elementary School, Prosper ISD Texas Choral Directors Association Clinic, July 22, 2016

“If one were to attempt to express the essence of this education in one word, it could only be—singing.” Zoltán Kodály

Classroom environment

x Make the classroom a safe place for children to take risks x Celebrate students who sing alone

o Super Singer cards o Board with names of students who sang solos

� Super Stars � Hot air balloon with small balloons around it � Monkeys in jungle with names on bananas on tree � Sunshine with birds around it

Developing the singing voice x Awareness and use of different types of voices (speaking, singing, calling, whispering, inner/audiating)

o “1 2 3 4 5, Once I Caught a Fish Alive” x Vocal exploration activities

o “Johnny, Johnny” o Tossing a ball or squishy o Slide whistle o Stretching slinky o Placing a lasso, Christmas garland, or other string on the ground o Vocal exploration stories—“Cowboy Joe” o Visuals

x Appropriate vocal models—teacher and student o Pure tone o Head voice o Tonal accuracy

x Singing on a neutral “ooh” vowel o 24 Little Canons on the Black Keys, Zoltán Kodály o Demonstration of vowel postures—Amazing Awesome “Ooh” Club

x Echo singing o “Oh My, No More Pie” o “Charlie Over the Ocean” o “Down by the Bay”

x Singing in small groups x Solo singing

o “Teddy Bear” o “Doggy, Doggy” o “Little Tommy Tittlemouse” o “Billy Bad” o “Great Big House in New Orleans”



Opportunities to sing

x Entering the room o KG—“Little Red Caboose” (vocal exploration) o 1st—“Down by the Station” (vocal exploration) o 2nd—“Walk and Stop” (movement and text improvisation) o 3rd—“Way Down Yonder in the Brickyard” (d r m/m r d) o 4th—“Chickalaleeo” () o 5th—“Hill and Gully Rider” (syn-co-pa)

x Taking attendance o KG—students echo names on pentatonic patterns o 1st-5th—students echo names on solfege pitches that they are learning or already know

x Moving from place to place o Takes practice. Have students sing as they move from one spot in the room to another.

x Singing Games o “Wake Up You Sleepy Heads” o “Tideo”

x Partner Songs and Canons o “One Jar of Apples” o “Are You Sleeping” o “Ding Dong, Diggy Diggy Dong” o “Chairs to Mend” o “The Birch Tree” o “To Ope Their Trunks” o “Happy Days” o “Canoe Song”/”Land of the Silver Birch”

x Lining up o Move singing o Sing while waiting for teacher o This is a great time for solo singing

Choral Singing from McGraw Hill state-adopted text

x “Sun Don’t Set in the Mornin’” x “Hitori”, Japanese Folk Song/M. Donnelly & G.O. Strid x “Eagle”, M. Hauptmann/S. Nordmeyer x “Don’t Let the Music Stop”, Butler/Worsley x “Circle of Song”, Crocker/Brymer

Choral Singing from Octavos

x “Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah”, Traditional/Arr. C. Miller x “Santa Claus, You are Much Too Fat”, Inspired by Jingle Bells, S. Kupferschmid x “Yonder Come Day”, Georgia Sea Islands Spiritual/Tucker



Sources: Bolkovac, E., & Johnson, J. (1996). 150 Rounds for Singing and Teaching. Boosey & Hawkes. Houlahan, M, & Tacka, P. (2008). Kodály Today. New York: Oxford University Press. Tacka, P., & Taylor-Howell, S. (2007). Sourwood Mountain: 28 North American and English songs

arranged for two voices. Moorhead, MN: Organization of Kodály Educators. Taylor-Howell, S. (2004). The Owl Sings: 22 folksongs arranged for 2 or 3 voices. Moorhead, MN:

Organization of Kodály Educators. Home page, International Kodály Society. (n.d.). Retrieved June 30, 2016, from

http://www.iks.hu/index.php/home1 Other materials posted:

x Master copies for o Canoe Song o Chairs to Mend o Charlie Over the Ocean o Happy Days o Hunt the Cows o Land of the Silver Birch o Simple Major Canon o Simple Minor Canon o The Birch Tree o To Ope their Trunks

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Anecdotal Information:I learned this canon from Gay deMontel in Kodály Level I at UNT.

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Anecdotal Information:

This is a partner song with "Canoe Song" and "Ah, Poor Bird". I do not remember where I first learned this song.Sourwood Mountain has a harmony part for "Land of the Silver Birch".

Source Information:

Keen, Brenda. (2010). Pedagogy Level II Kodály Institute of North Texas in the summer of 2010.Tacka, P., & Taylor-Howell, S. (2002). Sourwood Mountain. Moorhead, MN: OAKE, p. 6.


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Sing It Again! (n.d.). Delaware, Iowa: The National Conference of the Methodist Youth Foundation, p. 23.

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Source Information:Bolkovac, E., & Johnson, J. (1996). 150 Rounds for Singing and Teaching. USA: Boosey & Hawkes, p. 7.

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Anecdotal Information:This canon is based on Old English street cries. There is a picture book that goes with this song.

Source Information:Bolkovac, E., & Johnson, J. (1996). 150 Rounds for Singing and Teaching. USA: Boosey & Hawkes, p. 8.

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Anecdotal Information:150 Rounds credits Margaret McGee with the 1918 composition of the words and music of this song. I remember playing this song as a child in piano lessons.

Source Information:Bolkovac, E., & Johnson, J. (1996). 150 Rounds for Signing and Teaching. USA: Boosey & Hawkes, p. 38.Keen, Brenda. (2010). Level II Pedagogy at Kodály Institute of North Texas.

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Anecdotal information:I learned this song while student teaching with Wanda Mott.

Source information:Mott, Wanda. (1993). Student teaching materials. Port Neches, TX.

cf. Feierabend, John M. (2004). The Book of Beginning Circle Games. Chicago: GIA Publications.

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I found this gem in an old, small book of folk songs while packing my husband's music after were married. It is truly a gem--a new-to-me round in an old book.

Sing It Again! (n.d.). Delaware, Ohio: The National Conference of the Methodist Youth Fellowship, p. 38.

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