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Literacy is Equity Live from CMEA

February 17, 2023 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

This presentation is the second part, or “why” sequel to Episode 135. In that episode, I lay out processes and procedures to build independent literacy skills in a beginning choir. In this presentation, I expanded into the moral and scientific case for centering literacy in our curricula, as well as support for my contention that there […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: Equity, inclusion, music education, music literacy, neuroscience, science of reading

Collaboration through Service – an Advocacy & Collaboration Monthly Blog Post 

January 18, 2023 by Emily Williams Burch Leave a Comment

Rock around the clock… Ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog… Lollipop, lollipop… Crawfish pie, filé gumbo—just a few of the iconic lyrics of the 1940s and 50s, a Golden Age of music! While we all weren’t coming of age during that time period, we all have experienced our own “Golden Decade” or two in our […]

Filed Under: Advocacy & Collaboration Tagged With: advocacy, Collaboration, music education, service, service learning

ChoralEd: Vocal Exercises, Episode 14-15

December 7, 2022 by Micah Bland Leave a Comment

In episode 14 and 15 of ChoralEd we continue our series on vocal exercises with a discussion of vocal warm-ups for tone development and mental activation. In Episode 14, Heather Orr discusses her incorporation of vocal exercises for tone development.  In conjunction with each vocal exercise, Mrs. Orr frequently incorporates kinesthetic movement.  In general, the […]

Filed Under: ChoralEd Tagged With: choral education, music education, Podcast

The Strange Relationship between Choral Music Ed and Vocal Ped with Dr. Sharon Hansen

December 2, 2022 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

One of the oddest things about Vocal Music Education as a profession, is how little we are required to learn in our schooling about the voice. Vocal Pedagogy courses are often the purview of voice performance majors, which is very odd considering how many more students will be impacted with vocal instruction by a person […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: ACDA Membership Benefits, music education, vocal music, vocal pedagogy, voice science

AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE WITH VAUGHAN FLEISCHFRESSER

November 25, 2022 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

The Music Department is an alternate universe where pupils are often unrecognizable from who they are outside of it. The shy become confident. The agitated become calm. The lonely become included. The quiet become heard. And the lost become found. Music reveals the real child. Vaughan Fleischfresser You probably recognize this colleague just by looking at him […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: ACDA Membership Benefits, advocacy, choir, music education, social media

Retention Matters MORE than Recruitment

July 1, 2022 by Chris Munce Leave a Comment

Straight out of the archives! Most of my live presentations are reserved for Patreon Subscribers, but I felt so strongly about the ideas in this presentation, I decided to air it out for everybody. It is my belief that when we talk about building choral programs, or any program for that matter, we do WAY too […]

Filed Under: Choralosophy Tagged With: ACDA Membership Benefits, conferences, development, music education, Professional, workshop

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