A Report on Lifeline for Children’s Choir Directors Essay -- Choir Cho

Mrs. Bartle employs a little bit of four of each of the methods shared in (the call pedagogy) class. She uses a lot of the Westminister method but borrows from the others. The others she borrows from are Christiansen, Fred Warning and Wilson/Klein. Much of what she writes, is from her own lifes career experiences as a choral director. The starting time subject she deals with is the directors attitude. A director should have a positive attitude. (p. 3, Bartle) In chapter two she discusses the development of a childs representative in a mechanistic way. She wants the flutety sound of a childs voice developed, between the ages 6-8. (ps. 7-9) This reminds me of the Westminister method. She tells how to help a child that has problems sing on revolve about. (ps. 13-15.) She tells how to help children pronounce their vowels when they sing. She does this by demonstrating the position of the jaw with a rubber band. She also teaches children how to form vowels and diphthongs with their mou ths. (ps. 19-21) She gives some mechanistic methods on how to develop good diction with nonsense word drills and by exaggerating consonants as they whisper words. (ps. 22-3) This reminds me of the Fred Warning emphasis on good pronunciation. She gives some reasons why a childrens choir may sing flat or sharp, and then gives some mechanistic ways to fix them. (p. 27) A choir director must fix his own hearing, forrader they can get to first base, with their choir members. They can do this by listening to some Bach chorales, then leave them for a week, line up back and play them several times, then write them down on a manuscript. (p. 27) She discusses the many ways of teaching children rhythm, but she also advises, let us not disregard the old. (ps. 28-9) She a... ...aguarthe loyalty of a Dogthe charm of a Kitten and the appearance of a SeaIt would also be reformative if he hasa bag full of tricksa head full of Toolsa lifetime of Ideasa background of a few failures as surface a s success anda heart full of hope and faith in people. (ps. 155-6)At the very end of the book, she has a bibliography of twenty-six sources, and six commentators of differentiation such as Sir David Willcocks. (ps.157-9) I enjoyed reading this book. This book would be a handy aid in assisting any Childrens Choir Director. I like the way she borrows from a lot of methodologies to develop her own. By burrowing she has developed a very good way to direct choirs.Work Cited.Bartle, Jean Ashworth Lifeline for Childrens Choir Directors.Published by Gordon V. Thompson Music, a Division of Canada Publishing Corporation. Toronto, Canada. 1988.