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Sing Smart

A Virtual Singers Educational Program

All Sing Smart sessions are posted on our YouTube page (link).

The complete outline of the program is available here.
Handouts for each session are available below.
 

"Sing Smart" Session #1: Elements of Music - Rhythm

7:00pm, Thu, Sep 14 2023

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  • Type of event: Sing Smart
    Duration: 1 Hour
    Web page: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaPSu7Fif_2JRnifDYlnowHjfMAHclHx
    Venue: Online Only
    Description: "Sing Smart" Session #1: Elements of Music - Rhythm

    • Pulse /Beat

    • Note Values

    • Bar Lines / Time Signature

    • Reading Rhythms

    • Simple and Compound Meter

    • Count-Singing

    •     Conducting Patterns



    HANDOUTS:

    #1       Speed Markings

    #2       Conducting Patterns
     
    #3       Counts-Singing Exercises

"Sing Smart" Session #2: Music Notation

7:00pm, Thu, Sep 21 2023

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    Web page: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaPSu7Fif_2JRnifDYlnowHjfMAHclHx
    Description: "Sing Smart" Session #2: Music Notation
    • Pitch (Musical Alphabet)

    • Staves

    • Grand Staff

    • Clefs

    • Note Recognition – on Grand Staff / on Piano

    • Whole and Half Steps

    • Accidentals (# b X bb Natural)

    • Pythagoras

    • Temperament

    • Circle of Fifths

    • Major Scales and Key Signatures



    HANDOUTS:

    #4       Notes on Staff and Piano

    #5       Circle of Fifths

    #6       Major Key Signatures

    #7       Sight Reading
     

"Sing Smart" Session #3: Scales, Intervals, Chords & Cadences

7:00pm, Thu, Sep 28 2023

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    Web page: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaPSu7Fif_2JRnifDYlnowHjfMAHclHx
    Description: "Sing Smart" Session #3: Scales, Intervals, Chords & Cadences
    • Scales (scale degrees):
       - Major
       - Minor (natural, harmonic, melodic and their key signatures)
       - Pentatonic
       - Whole tone

    • Intervals

    • Chords:
       - Major
       - Minor
       - Diminished
       - Augmented

    • Inversions

    • Cadences



    HANDOUTS:

    #8       Scale degrees and chord structure

    #9       Cadences

    #10        Intervals and sight-singing exercises

     

"Sing Smart" Session #4: Diction - Latin & English

7:00pm, Thu, Oct 5 2023

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    Web page: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaPSu7Fif_2JRnifDYlnowHjfMAHclHx
    Description: "Sing Smart" Session #4: Diction - Latin & English
    Guest speaker: Dr. Robyn Rocklein 

    • Latin Diction
       - Mass / Requiem Historical Background
       - Latin Vowels, Consonants, Pronunciation of the Mass and Requiem in Latin

    • Master class: Leanna Smithberger and Christian Higgins
     

    HANDOUTS:

    #11     Latin Pronunciation

"Sing Smart" Session #5: English Diction

7:00pm, Thu, Oct 12 2023

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    Description: "Sing Smart" Session #5: English Diction
    Guest Speaker: Dr. Robyn Rocklein

    • Tonal Quality
        - Posture
        - Resonance
        - Breath support
        - Focus
        - Placement
        - Vibrato
        - Listening ears
        - Vowels, consonants 

    • Vocal / Choral Warm-Ups 
        - Physical Exercises, Posture
        - Breathing Exercises
        - Vocal Exercises

    • Vocal Production 
        - Vibrato is not unified
        - Singing too softly
        - Singing too loud

    Master class: Leanna Smithberger, Christian Higgins


    HANDOUT:

    #12   English pronunciation
     

"Sing Smart" Session #6: Musical Terms, Effects, Symbols

7:00pm, Thu, Oct 19 2023

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    Web page: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaPSu7Fif_2JRnifDYlnowHjfMAHclHx
    Description: "Sing Smart" Session #6: Musical Terms, Effects, Symbols
    • Speed Markings

    • Italian Modifiers

    • Changes of Tempo

    • Dynamic Markings

    • Articulation

    • Phrasing

    • Ornaments

    • Lyrics

    • Symbols

    • Musical Terms and Abbreviations



    HANDOUTS:

    #12     Diction

    #13     Articulation

    #14    Dynamic Markings

    #15    Speed Markings

    #16    Tempo Modifiers

    #17    Musical Terms

    #18    Italian Modifiers & Symbol

     

"Sing Smart" Session #7: Tonal Quality Vocal / Choral Warm-Ups

7:00pm, Thu, Oct 26 2023

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    Description: "Sing Smart" Session #7: Tonal Quality Vocal / Choral Warm-Ups
    Guest Speaker: Dr. Robyn Rocklein

    •     Resonance

    • Intonation & pitch

    • Vocal exercises

    • Singing Myths

"Sing Smart" Session #8: Musical Forms, Textures, Sight-Singing

7:00pm, Thu, Nov 2 2023

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    Web page: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCaPSu7Fif_2JRnifDYlnowHjfMAHclHx
    Description: "Sing Smart" Session #8: Musical Forms, Textures, Sight-Singing
    • Concert / Rehearsal Etiquette

    • Score Markings

    • Expectations of Singers

    • Page Turns

    • Classical Musical Forms

    • Sight-Singing



    HANDOUTS:

    #3       Count Singing

    #10     Sight Singing

    #19    Musical Forms & Textures

     

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