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Sing What You Mean, Mean What You Sing

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students discuss the vocal styles characteristic of different genres and composers. The explore the use of lyrics, their relation to the music, and the use of the voice to convey emotions and character.
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Lawrence University: A Brief History of Singing

For Students 9th - 10th
An introduction to the history of Western solo singing from ancient times to the present can be found here.
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The Contemporary a Cappella Society: A Cappella Almanac

For Students 9th - 10th
This website includes general information on a cappella music, as well has tips on how to get started in a cappella singing and how to arrange, perform, and record a cappella music. Read about world-wide a cappella events and check out...
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Breathing Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th
Everything you could want to know about breathing is here. Excellent visuals of anatomy. Links to articles and related resource materials. Discussion forum.
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Diction for Singers

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete vocal diction resource site. Commentary that is to the point. Supplemental visuals and lots of related resources and links.
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Sweet Adelines International

For Students 9th - 10th
The official website for the organization of women who sing "barbershop" music. Site contains a good component devoted to the development of young girls.
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Vocalist

For Students 9th - 10th
A general site for anyone interested in singing. Contains free online singing lessons and articles for vocalists related to singing plus other useful information. Resources for everyone-even kids online music games.
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Choral Resources: Choral Rehearsal Techniques

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A vast amount of advice and help is found at this site concerning choral rehearsal techniques. From general advice to specialized strategies you are likely to find something useful.
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Choral Resources: Technology for Choral Music

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Implementing technology into your choir program is easy to do when you have a wealth of information available to you. This site offers many practical ideas and solutions to enable you to begin utilizing technology in your choir program.
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City University of New York

Vp: The Singer's Dilemma, Tone Versus Diction

For Students 9th - 10th
Shirley Emmons is a noted teacher of singing. Her website has a number of essays devoted to singing technique. This article is an in depth discussion of the age old problem of balancing beautiful tone with the need to sing words that can...
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The Choral Public Domain Library

For Students 9th - 10th
This searchable database of more than 5,000 pieces of free, classical choral music features MIDI file downloads and PDF documents.
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N2 Arts: Voice

For Students 9th - 10th
The perfect site for teens who have an interest in voice as a career choice. Learn how to find a voice teacher, care for your voice, and discover if you have what it takes to make it big.
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The Efl Playhouse: Songs for Young Learners

For Students 3rd - 5th
Music, songs and dance have always been instrumental in teaching students. This site offers fun and entertaining activities along with teaching tips that enhance the students' awareness of sound, numbers, body parts and more. Intended...
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The Little Red Music Room

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site has curriculum based songs set to folk melodies. At this site teach language arts, science and math through songs.
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Furman University: How to Memorize Vocal Music

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of practical pointers as to how a singer can effectively memorize music. Written by a university vocal performing artist.
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Breath and Support: 2 Coordinated Functions in Singing

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief, yet detailed explanation of breathing and od the proper support needed for singing.
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Vocalist.org: Perfect Pitch

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief essay discusses the writer's quest for perfect pitch even though he was not born with it.
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Sing Out Seattle: Maintain Your Singing Voice

For Students 9th - 10th
A list of helpful tips that you can follow to help preserve your singing voice can be found on this site.