Together, We Sing

Together We Sing: Goals for Singing Ensembles and Leaders is a rich and diverse tool to help all leaders of group singing promote healthy singing, expressive artistry, and develop musical skills. 

The Chart

Together, We Sing lays out pathways for growing as an ensemble and as singers in any tradition and type of singing!

Pathways for learning to sing, learning to be expressive, and building musical skills are described in twelve areas of importance which highlight vocal sound, the engagement of the body, building artistic expression, and developing musical skills.

The vocal concepts and pathways are built to focus on our voice as a diverse and flexible instrument and apply to all styles and traditions of singing!

The artistic and musical skill concepts promote skills that are important in aural traditions as well as music reading. 

Assessment Tools

Whether you are completing a teaching unit, singing for a a festival with adjudication, or a competition, Together, We Sing, provides a tool for consistent, real, fair, and compassionate feedback.

Teachers are challenged to assess how their individual students are growing within the whole of the choir. At adjudication, we often hear from judges who contradict each other, or who do not understand what our choir needs. Together, We Sing solves these issues by making singing and learning goals created and shared between students, teachers, and adjudicators so that everyone is evaluating the same things!

Instructions for use in both Assessment and Adjudication are included on the Assessment form.

Competition

For those choirs choosing to enter or host competitive events, Together, We Sing offers a tool that encourages unbiased, objective observation. 

As competition judges listen with the Together, We Sing chart, the judges listen objectively using the goals rather than personal preference. Scores are much more accurate and similar when a panel uses the chart. 

Instructions for use in both Assessment and Adjudication are included on the Assessment form.

Download your Together, We Sing Packet

The Together, We Sing chart is available in a vcariety of formats:

42x60 inch wall mount, laminate and use as a poster for your choir room. You and your choir can choose goals together! 

11x17 Color Desk Reference, laminate and keep on your music stand to build warm-ups, and help with problem-solving. 

11x17 Assessment forms (B&W only), copy to use for student and choir assessment, as well as adjudication.
TOGETHER, WE SING PACKET