VOCAL UNION RESOURCES
This website was initially created to provide resources for the Vocal Union project. All materials on the site are freely available to people working in community music and education.
We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Sage Gateshead and Sing Up.
The site is currently hosted in collaboration with BlueJam.
Teaching Materials
If you have any teaching materials, lesson plans or ideas you would like to share please contact Jilly at:
jillyjarman@gmail.com
Songwriting project at St Nicholas Preparatory, Kensington
Year 3 project by Casey Middaugh using the Children's Poetry Archive
Teaching notes: pdf | mp3
Sue Nicholls
Sue Nicholls' excellent session at Haybergill - Eden Valley Vocal Force Residential 2008 - has been really popular. Available as a CD to order from Jilly Jarman, it is also downloadable by clicking HERE. Sue Nicholls is a Sing Up advocate.
Singing Orchestra
Beaconside C of E Primary School, Penrith, CUMBRIA.
Resource Week 1 & 2 : using samba rhythms as a way in to combining melody fragments over a 2-chord sequence.
Resources Week 3:using Senwa Dedende as a way of integrating rhythmic motifs based on call and response into a melodic round.
These are handouts that Sharon Durant gives out at training sessions and contain lyrics to warm-up songs and games that she uses. You can find scores and mp3's to most of them on the warm-ups and traditional pages of this site. |
A great new source of lesson plans, discussion documents and videos and audio resources:
teachingmusic.org.uk.
It is easy to log in and to upload your own contribution to the debate.
Sing Up, the Music Manifesto National Singing Programme, produced by Youth Music with AMV-BBDO, Faber Music and The Sage Gateshead supported by Government.
Vocal Union is part-funded through Sing Up and is part of its national singing programme.