Each participant was given a written survey inquiring about instrumental background, gender, participation in private voice lessons, and number of years in choir. Students (N = 98) in a choral program from a 4A high school in central Texas participated in the study. A pilot study was completed to determine the appropriate difficulty level for the melodies. Effort was made to make each melody of similar difficulty by using the same number of rhythmic changes and the same interval leaps (see Figure 1). Each melody was in the key of F-major and was four measures in length. Research questions were as follows: (1) Is the combination of auditory, visual, and kinesthetic skills (writing solfège) improving sight-reading ability or are singers becoming dependent on reading the written syllable? (2) Is audiation, an aural technique, a better choice for high school choir students? (3) Do the number of years in choir or the gender of the participant affect results? Two sight-reading melodies were created based on exercises from "Week 13" in McGill and Stevens' "90 Days to Sight Reading Success" (2003). The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of writing solfège syllables into music. A variety of opinions exist, however, as to the best method of teaching sight-reading in the choral classroom. In many states, sight-reading is a required portion of choral contest participation and all-state choir auditions. Additionally, sight-reading is one of the core skills mentioned in the National Association for Music Education's Core Music Standards (NAFME, 2015). It has also been said that better sight-readers tend to be better performers (Lehman & McArthur, 2002).
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Choral MIDI files on The Silvis Woodshed.Choral Director Magazine: A free magazine for choral directors - excellent!.
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