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Essential see more! Go to cart Books & DVDs Summer is the time to rest and recharge your energies for the teaching demands that lie ahead. There���s no better way to enhance your own professional growth than to use one or more of these excellent resources from distinguished leaders in the choral music field. 2 Conducting Women���s Choirs (Strategies for Success)���ed. Debra Spurgeon. This is a pioneering yet practical book and DVD devoted to all aspects of the women���s choir - a groundbreaking contribution and a true collaborative effort from top professionals in the field. For the first time in a book, choral leaders bring together historical, philosophical, psychological, sociological, pedagogical, and real-world considerations to the women���s choir - information missing from most choral methods and conducting texts. Areas of focus include: working with beginning, high school, collegiate, and community women���s choirs; improving the sound of women���s choirs; suggested repertoire for women���s choirs; composing for women���s choirs; building community within the ensemble; warm-ups and rehearsal strategies; building excellence in women���s choirs. Sections also focus on mentoring, auditions, seating arrangements, historical women���s repertoire, healthy vocal development, gender issues, history, status of the women���s choir, and much more. This book features research, practical insights, and round-table discussions. The included DVD demonstrates choral techniques and teaching ideas with two women���s choirs: Aurora, from Luther College, conducted by Sandra Peter; and The University of Kentucky Women���s Choir, conducted by Lori Hetzel. ���Conducting Women���s Choirs��� is, quite simply, essential for anyone who is involved in the women���s choir movement and interested in the culmination of decades of experience and wisdom by leaders in the profession. 10342733 Book & DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.95 Creating Artistry Through Movement and the Maturing Male Voice���Henry Leck & Randy Stenson. Here is an amazing choral resource that demonstrates how movement while singing helps to harness the natural kinesthetic learning processes in males. Featuring the acclaimed St. Mary���s International School Varsity Ensemble, conducted by Randy Stenson, the DVD includes warm-ups and exercises to improve tone, intonation, phrasing, articulation, special vocal effects, head voice and vocal agility. Through these exercises, the singer develops his own individualized shaping gesture, which leads to improved musicality during rehearsal, versatility and expressiveness. The companion book includes the notated exercises, additional instructional material, suggested seating charts, learning strategies and much more. 10304434 Book & DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.99 The Joy of Part Singing (A Resource for Directors of Young Choirs)���Mark Patterson. ���The Joy of Part Singing��� is a resource that will help children���s choirs experience greater success in part-singing through short, accessible warm-ups, vocal exercises, rhythm chants, echo songs, mini-descants, and rounds. Even if your choir is currently working towards solidifying a beautiful, unison sound, these activities will help singers build the foundation for singing in multiple parts in the future. 10339191 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.95 The Musician���s Trust���James Jordan & James Whitbourn. ���The Musician���s Trust��� clarifies and celebrates the important role this quality plays among musicians, both among individuals and ensembles, as well as between teachers and students. Topics include: building trust; conductor gestures that inadvertently breed mistrust; trusting your own musical judgements; trusting each other within the ensemble; and finding tone colors that reflect the presence of trust. 10347942 Hardcover Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.95 Pitch Perfect (The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory)���Mickey Rapkin. The roots of unaccompanied vocal music stretch all the way back to the Gregorian chants of the Middle Ages, and collegiate a cappella singing is more than a century old. But what was once largely an Ivy League phenomenon has, in the past 20 years, spread to high schools and colleges across the country. Now a major motion picture, ���Pitch Perfect��� is the inspiring, triumphant, hilarious and heartbreaking story of the quest for collegiate a cappella glory. Featuring championship ensembles, it chronicles the musical and personal challenges associated with their success in competition. This is a fascinating book for the choral director or student musician who aspires to greatness in the rewarding discipline of a cappella singing! 10347935 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.00 Grading for Musical Excellence���Paul Kimpton / Ann Kimpton. Remarkable and practical, this workbook challenges music educators to examine their grading procedures for fairness and clarity and help motivate students to improve and achieve musically. Exercises and reflective questions encourage educators to work as a team to assess the current grading system and move to the next level by incorporating the latest research about grading and connecting to Common Core standards. An essential resource for educators! 10347514 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.95 Teaching Music Through Performance in Middle School Choir���ed. Frank Abrahams & Paul D. Head. This book is one of the most comprehensive resources ever published for middle school choir directors - written, researched, and compiled by conductors and educators with a wealth of teaching experience. It is ideal for anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of the best choral literature for middle school singers and who wishes to learn from some of the seminal voices in the profession. In Part I, Sherri Porterfield discusses the role of assessment in middle school artistry; Judy Bowers outlines a hierarchy for independent part singing; Patrick Liebergen and Paul D. Head discuss selecting and preparing quality repertoire; James Jordan encourages the inner journey of a young singer; and Frank Abrahams introduces comprehensive musicianship through the lens of critical pedagogy and reciprocal teaching. Part II includes teacher resource guides for 80 works considered by these experts to be the best available for middle school choirs of all ability levels. Each teacher resource guide includes information about the composer or arranger, the composition, historical perspectives, technical and stylistic considerations, musical elements, form and structure analysis, and text guidelines. Each guide also contains valuable suggestions for rehearsing the music with middle school students. Resource recordings of many of the works are available on the companion CD. 10274684 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.95 10274685 2-CD Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.95 4Editors��� Choice lNew Publications 2013 HPepper Basic Library uA Cappella eAvailable e-Print All Prices In U.S. Dollars & Subject To Publisher Revision

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