Major: Music Education with a Voice and Special Education Concentration
Advisors: Dr. Jeffery Francom and Dr. Emmett O’Leary[[{"fid":"25881","view_mode":"default","type":"media","attributes":{"alt":"Elizabeth Kelly Image","style":"float:right; height:264px; margin:5px; width:225px","class":"file-default media-element"}}]]
Title: Choral Warm Ups for the Changing Voices
As a future music educator and choral director, I am interested in the reasons for choral warm ups and I want to interview a plethora of choral directors of all grade levels. I hope to explore the ways in which different choral conductors use warm ups in order to better prepare their choirs. I find it incredibly intriguing how different educators and conductors use choral warm ups for different reasons. Some use them to make connections with the repertoire, to better the singers’ technique, or to develop sight singing skills.
The purpose of my project is to interview a number of choral conductors about their choral warm up process. In hopes to collect information about the variety of choral warm ups used throughout music education. I believe that choral warm ups are extremely essential in music education because a majority of students do not have another opportunity to take private lessons. In addition, I am interested as to where teachers discover and develop their choice of warm up.
I believe that as music educators we need to listen and learn from those who are in the field and have experience. Taking the warm ups from those in the interview process, I plan to compile the exercises, with their purposes. With this, I hope that other future music educators, like myself, have an opportunity to reference and be to be inspired.