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Briggs, Robert – Teaching Music, 2000
Recommends using "activation exercises," or warm-ups, to awaken students' voices, minds, and breathing mechanisms when singing choral music. Describes three activation exercises: (1) plainchant melodies; (2) the five-note scale; and (3) tongue twisters sung to melodies or scale patterns. Explains why the first and third exercises work.…
Descriptors: Choral Music, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Innovation
