NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
THE STEINHARDT SCHOOL OF CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONS
KODÁLY SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011
23RD SUMMER OF KODÁLY STUDIES AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY • FOUNDED 1989
ENDORSED BY THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN KODÁLY EDUCATORS
CHORAL CONDUCTING 1 SYLLABUS
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY
1:30 CONTACT HOURS PER DAY • 13:30 CONTACT HOURS FOR 3 WEEKS
SARAH ST. ONGE, INSTRUCTOR
OBJECTIVE
The main objective is to develop basic conducting skills for beginners. Focus will be on musicality
as well as technique. There will also be a strong emphasis on knowing the musical content
thoroughly before conducting. The instructor will work with each student to develop skills at
her/his own level and will work on individual problems.
SPECIFIC AREAS
• beat patterns: 2, 3, 4, 6/8
• hand/arm shape and position
• posture and stance
• preparation beats in each meter
• varying tempos and meter changes
• basic dynamics
• basic cueing of entrances in unison, canon, and simple two-part songs
• cut-offs
• shaping phrases
• basic score analysis
• development of a sense of leadership in front of a group
MATERIALS
selections from:
Kodály 2011 Choral Packet 1: Various pieces for children's and women's choruses.
Bacon, Denise
1973 46 Two-Part American Folk Songs. Wellesley, Mass: Kodály Musical Training
Institute.
Erdei, Peter, ed.
1974 150 American Folk Songs to Sing, Read, and Play. New York: Boosey and
Hawkes.
Kodály, Zoltán
1941 Choral Method: Bicinia Hungarica I: 60 Progressive Two-Part Songs. Revised
edition by Geoffrey Russell-Smith. New York: Boosey and Hawkes.
Locke, Eleanor, ed.
1981 Sail Away: 155 American Folk Songs to Sing, Read, and Play. New York:
Boosey and Hawkes.
Selected two- and three-part canons.
1
CHORAL CONDUCTING 1 PACKET
title and arranger:
Allunde' Alluya
African prayer lullaby (Swahili)
arranged by Salli Terri
Appalachian Dances (“Cindy”, “Cotton Eyed
Joe”, “Cumberland Gap”, “Sourwood Mountain”,
“Wayfaring Stranger”)
arranged by Christi Cary Miller
Bist du Bei Mir
Johann Sebastian Bach
arranged by Doreen Rao
The Coasts of High Barbary
traditional sea song
arranged by Jeanne Julseth-Heinrich
Cock-a-Doodle-Doo from Three Children’s
Songs of the British Isles
arranged by Betty Bertaux
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
traditional spiritual
arranged by Roger Emerson
Gloria Canon
traditional Latin
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
arranged by Donald Moore
I Had a Little Nut Tree
English traditional song
arranged by Betty Bertaux
I’m Goin’ Up a Yonder
Walter Hawkins
arranged by Martin Sirvatka
Marienwürmchen
Johannes Brahms arranged by Mary Goetze
The May Day Carol
English traditional song
arranged by Betty Bertaux
Metsa Telegramm “The Wood Pecker’s
Warning” (Forest Telegram)
Estonian song (a true “green” song)
Uno Naissoo, composer
Ira Lember, poet
English text by Steve Swanson
O, Desayo
traditional song from Angola
arranged by Elliot Z. Levine
voicing and
instrumentation:
Two-part equal voices.
Drum accompaniment.
Two-part equal voices.
publisher and
number:
Lawson-Gould Music
Publishers (Alfred)
52245
Hal Leonard 3301700
Unison. Piano.
Boosey and Hawkes
9790051467167
Two equal voices.
Heritage Music Press,
New Horizons Series
H 5899
Boosey and Hawkes
9790051464807
Two-part treble. Piano.
Two-part or three-part
mixed (first choice: twopart; second choice:
three-part)
Two-part. With flute or C
instrument.
Jenson Publications
40326209
(distributed by Hal
Leonard)
Heritage Choral Series
15/1379H
Two-part treble voices.
Boosey and Hawkes
OCTB 6498
SSAA. Piano.
Boosey and Hawkes
MO51464517
Unison treble voices.
Piano.
Three-part treble. Piano.
Boosey and Hawkes
9790051463589
SSA. Piano.
Mark Foster: Music for
Young Singers, Cora
Scholz, ed.
YS 602
Two-part treble. Piano or
guitar accompaniment.
Colla Voce Music
(Plymouth Music)
WWIC-500
2
The Path to the Moon
E. H. Thiman
Pie Jesu
Latin text
in memory of the children who perished in the
April 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
Mary Lynn Lightfoot
ALTERNATE CHOICES IN PRIORITY ORDER
Ca’ the Yowes
Scottish traditional song
arranged by Mary Goetze
Ocho Kandelikas
arranged by Betty Bertaux
J’entends le moulin (I Heal the Mill Wheel)
canon from France
arranged by Sirett
Unison treble voices.
Piano.
Two-part. Piano.
Boosey and Hawkes
OCTB 6114
Heritage Choral Series
15/1227H
SS. Piano.
Boosey and Hawkes
9790051462582
Unison treble. Piano and
flute.
Two-part treble voices.
Piano.
Boosey and Hawkes
9790051479382
Boosey and Hawkes
9790051478798
3
The Path to the Moon
E. H. Thiman
Pie Jesu
Latin text
in memory of the children who perished in the
April 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
Mary Lynn Lightfoot
ALTERNATE CHOICES IN PRIORITY ORDER
Ca’ the Yowes
Scottish traditional song
arranged by Mary Goetze
Ocho Kandelikas
arranged by Betty Bertaux
J’entends le moulin (I Heal the Mill Wheel)
canon from France
arranged by Sirett
ALTERNATE CHOICES IN PRIORITY ORDER
E Nana Kakou I Na Manu
Hawaiian language song text and music by
Herb Mahelona
translated by Stacey Mailelauli'i Naki
edited by Henry Leck
Cock-a-Doodle-Doo, arranged by Betty Bertaux
Dance of the Willow
Victoria El Sabo
Unison treble voices.
Piano.
Two-part. Piano.
Boosey and Hawkes
OCTB 6114
Heritage Choral Series
15/1227H
SS. Piano.
Boosey and Hawkes
9790051462582
Unison treble. Piano and
flute.
Two-part treble voices.
Piano.
Boosey and Hawkes
9790051479382
Boosey and Hawkes
9790051478798
Two-part treble voices.
Piccolo and piano
accompaniment.
Plymouth Music
HL-547
Two-part treble voices.
Piano.
Unison treble voices.
Piano and optional string
bass.
Boosey and Hawkes
0CTB 6480
Boosey and Hawkes
OCTB 6745