CGBK88 A Year of Beautiful Singing - Volume I: Lets Sing!
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A Year of Beautiful Singing
Volume I: Let’s Sing!
CGBK88
Heather Potter
A comprehensive faith-based choir curriculum for ages 7-12 (grades 1-5). Guide your developing elementary singers in fun vocal discovery with this wonderful resource from master teacher Heather Potter. Let’s Sing! offers twenty-four sequenced lesson plans for church children’s choirs of all shapes and sizes. Features complete teaching sequences for eight unison/two-part choral anthems, including rehearsal objectives, warmups and vocal technique exercises, and opportunities to expand or contract the rehearsal activities to meet the needs of your ensemble. The curriculum also includes a full set of 21 posters/visual aids and an appendix of pedagogical articles to enrich the skills of the director.
Let’s Sing! is the first of five yearly installments in the A Year of Beautiful Singing series. The first year’s thematic content focuses on the joy of singing, inspiring children to discover their voices and sing foundational messages of faith with confidence.
A Year of Beautiful Singing (Volume 1: Let’s Sing!) is designed to support the learning of the following choral literature for unison/two-part treble voices.
Volume I suggested anthems and composers:
NOTE: Full anthems are not included in this volume. These are the anthems suggested and referenced in this volume. Scroll down to view suggested material.
- CGA640 Oh, Sing to the Lord, arr. Harriet Ziegenhals
- CGA878 The Lord Is My Light, Michael Bedford
- CGA1162 Light of Light, Nancy Gifford
- CGA1172 The Heavens Declare the Glory of God, James Brighton
- CGA1222 This Is the Day, Mark Burrows
- CGA1453 The Lord Is Risen! (He Is Risen Indeed!), Helen Kemp
- CGA1753 May God Bless Us and Keep Us, Katie Houts
- CGAMB103 Behold, I Have Loved You, Robin Wolaver
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