Choir Training School

This course aims to develop the student’s voice, from their breathing, body posture, and tuning, to the very art of singing itself, using the method left by maestro Alejandro Zuleta.

Objectives

  • Make the student aware of different types of breathing for singing.

  • Work on body posture to achieve correct sound emission.

  • Improve the students’ tuning through interval and scale exercises.

Stages

Awareness

  1. Prepare the body’s musculature: Relax and adopt a comfortable and controlled body posture for singing.

  2. Breathing exercises: Begin training different types of breathing and learn to briefly recognize the muscles involved in singing.

  3. Integrate and understand the functioning of the respiratory, phonation, and articulation organs.

  4. Begin to create awareness about the voice as an instrument.

  5. Perform tuned warm-up exercises in major scales

Fundamentals

  1. Perform children’s choral works with instrumental accompaniment.

  2. Learn to dissociate choir voices

Bibliography

  • ZULETA JARAMILLO, Alejandro. Programa básico de dirección de Coros Infantiles. Ministerio de Cultura. Imprenta Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá. Colombia. 2004.

  • PIÑEROS LARA, María Olga. Introducción a la pedagogía Vocal para coros Infantiles. Ministerio de Cultura. Imprenta Nacional de Colombia Bogotá. Colombia. 2004.

  • LEÓN, Magdalena. El Arte de Respirar. Impresiones Buenos Aires Editorial. Paraguay 2427, Buenos Aires.  Argentina. 2008.

  • ZULETA JARAMILLO, Alejandro. El Método Kodály en Colombia. Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá. Colombia. 2008