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Use the YouTube tutorials and other links below to learn and review the choir essentials.
Music Notation is a standardized system of symbols that represent everything from pitch to dynamic levels. Becoming familiar with the fundamentals of reading music notation allows choirs to learn music more quickly, and independently. Use the resources below to review, or move ahead on your own!
Notation & Theory YouTube Playlist
Aural Skills are a musician's ability to either describe what they are hearing using musical terminology. An extension of aural skills is audiation. A musician audiates when they hear a musical sound in their mind, without it being played. When practicing aural skills, it is helpful to ask yourself a few guiding questions:
1. Is the first pitch "Do"? If not, what is the first pitch?
2. Is the next pitch higher or lower than the first?
3. Does it sound like the next pitch is a step or a skip?
These questions will help you find which pitches are being played or sung. Practicing this way helps you to memorize what different pitch patterns sound like. The patterns become part of your musical vocabulary, and make it easier to audiate when you are reading music.
Sight Singing is a combination of notation and aural skills, where a musician will look at a piece of written music, and sing it as if they were reading a sentence from a book. In the Montville Choirs, we use the following sight singing procedure to work through new music:
1. Pitch
2. Rhythm
3. Tonal Solfege in Time
4. Audiate All
5. Sing
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