Description

A comprehensive faith-based choir curriculum for ages 7-12 (grades 1-5).

Guide your developing elementary singers in meaningful musical learning with this wonderful resource from master teacher Heather Potter. Addressing the Basics offers twenty-four sequenced lesson plans for church children’s choirs of all shapes and sizes.

Features complete teaching sequences for eight unison/two-part choral anthems, including rehearsal objectives, warmups and vocal technique exercises, and opportunities to expand or contract the rehearsal activities to meet the needs of your ensemble. The curriculum also includes visual aids and an appendix of pedagogical articles to enrich the
skills of the director.

Addressing the Basics is the second volume in the A Year of Beautiful Singing series.  The second year’s thematic content focuses on the basics of music-making in a choral setting, including pitch matching, recognition/demonstration of musical terms, and responding to basic rhythmic notation.

This children’s choir curriculum is designed to support the learning of the following choral literature for unison/two-part treble voices:

• CGA242 Prayer of St. Francis, Helen Litz
• CGA553 Come One, Come All, Come Follow, Philip Dieterich
• CGA606 Hosanna to the Son, Jody W. Lindh
• CGA637 Dear Lord, Lead Me Day by Day, Jane Marshall
• CGA956 Ding, Dong! Merrily on High, arr. Ken Berg
• CGA1357 Guide Us, Lord, Mark Patterson
• CGA1439 Amazing Day, Rebecca Thompson
• CGA1713 Prayer, Natalie Sleeth, arr. Katie Houts
• CGA1753 May God Bless Us and Keep Us, Katie Houts