J.W. Pepper Music Catalog
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4Editors' Choice (Best of 2018 Publications) lNew for 2018 HPepper Basic Library Available via ePrint All Prices in U.S. Dollars & Subject To Publisher Revision 204 DIRECTOR RESOURCES Go to cart BOOKS & RESOURCES FOR THE CHORAL DIRECTOR Books & Resources for the Choral Director A Cappella Pop: A Complete Guide to Contemporary A Cappella Singing—Brody McDonald. A cappella pop singing...it's the hottest trend in the nation and the ideal challenge for your top high school and collegiate-level singers. Opening with a foreword by Deke Sharon, the book covers every essential topic: forming your ensemble; music selection; rehearsal techniques; sound reinforcement; vocal percussion and much more! Brody McDonald's award-winning ensemble, Eleventh Hour, was the first high school group to appear on NBC's The Sing-Off. 10310312 Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.99 Alfred's IPA Made Easy (A Guidebook for the International Phonetic Alphabet)—Anna Wentlent. This handy guidebook is an easy reference for the symbols used in IPA: what they look like and how they are pronounced. Example words for every symbol are included in English, Latin, Italian, German, French, and Spanish. An online resource includes recorded demonstrations of every sound. A clear and concise tool for singing in foreign languages, equally useful in the choir room and the vocal studio. 10457893 Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.99 l The Anatomy of Tone (Applying Voice Science to Choral Ensemble Pedagogy)—James Jordan, Kathy Kessler Price & Sean McCarther. A valuable resource for choral conductors, no matter the age or experience of their ensembles, this volume explores essential aspects of anatomy, physiology, and acoustics, then describes their impact on choral teaching and rehearsal. In addition, this book reviews groundbreaking scientific information on spacing of singers and its effect upon intonation and vocal health. This volume contains pedagogical information pertaining to: breathing, resonance, and formats in the choral rehearsal; structuring warm-ups; using the breath as a foundation of expression; using legato in rehearsal; choral spacing for balanced resonance; teaching specific vowels and their internal architectures; piano accompanying to support good vocalism; building listening skills; and more. 10862181 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . 29.95 Arranging : A Beginner's Guide—Gerald Custer & Blake R. Henson. Need to adapt an SATB work for your small SAB choir? Have sopranos who can't sing divisi, but know a great trumpet player who is happy to help out? Need to simplify a viola part for a beginner? In straightforward, step-by-step fashion, authors Blake Henson and Gerald Custer show how to take a piece of existing music and craft a workable, polished arrangement that meets the needs of your ensemble in the real world. Arranging: A Beginner's Guide is full of ideas, examples, and exercises to try out and adapt, grounded in the belief that arranging is not only a necessary skill, it is one that is relatively easy to learn and master. This book is written for conductors, church musicians, teachers, and students at all levels. 10661369 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . 28.95 The Art of Successful Teaching—Tim Lautzenheiser. This book from one of the nation's most sought-after motivators and speakers on education and leadership is the book that you've been looking for! Includes sections on the art of teaching, attitude development, student leadership, thoughts about competition, and one special section for band directors only. (Don't let this keep you away, however, because you're a choral director!) This book will enlighten you, lift your spirits, educate you, inspire you and allow you to release your unlimited potential. 2260438 Hardcover Book . . . . . . . . . 23.95 The Artist Within Me (A Teacher's Year of Creative Discovery)—John Jacobson. John Jacobson - one of America's best-loved musical personalities - is known for sharing his passion, humor and insights with students and teachers, helping them to revitalize and reenergize. Now, he has created a collection of 366 short essays - one for each day of the year, including leap day - to help educators rediscover the fervor and creativity that brought them into teaching in the first place and inspire the artist that stirs within! Through the readings in this beautifully designed daily companion, a teacher will reawaken the mind, spirit and body to the connection between one's personal art and the art of teaching, tapping the restorative power of creativity in nourishing the soul. 10309814 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . 16.99 The Boy's Changing Voice (New Solutions For Today's Choral Teacher)—Terry Barham & Darolyne Nelson. Approaching a very serious subject with both wit and practicality, this is an excellent resource for anyone who works with adolescent male voices. With chapter headings such as Putting Round Pegs in Square Holes, Good Strokes for your Singing Folks, Putting the Pieces Together, Eenie Meenie Meinie Mo This is Where He Has to Go, Life with Chameleons, Tips for Training the Tigers, Teacher Prescriptions for Sanity and Scores that Don't Bore, this excellent book will help you not only improve your ability to maximize the talents of young males at this particular time of their lives, but also to greatly reduce your frustrations in the process of doing so! 1795392 Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.99 Brothers, Sing On! (Conducting the Tenor- Bass Choir)—Jonathan Palant. An ideal resource for choral directors, teachers-in-training, singers, and choral enthusiasts, this practical volume explores the challenges and rewards of working with evolving adolescent through adult male singers. In addition to his own valuable insights, Dr. Palant includes interviews with over two dozen seasoned vocal music educators. Topics include: A History of Men's Choral Singing; Anatomy of the Male Voice; The Product: Choral Tone; Intonation; Parts and Placement; The Adolescent Male Voice: Categorization to Maturation; Programming and Repertoire Selection; Auditions; Warm- Ups; Sight-Singing; Recruiting; Fundraising and Travel. Sample programs and repertoire lists are also included. 10456302 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . 22.99 Cantabile (A Manual About Beautiful Singing for Singers, Teachers of Singing and Choral Conductors)—Katharin Rundus. This vocal pedagogy textbook breaks the mold! Making complex concepts easily understood has been the hallmark of Kathi Rundus' teaching career. Filled with anatomical drawings, pictures, graphs and valuable vocal exercises, this book is wisely and attractively organized. Plus, every chapter includes a section specifically for the choral director! 10077592 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . 59.95 Cantabile Voice Class—Katharin Rundus. Cantabile - A Manual About Beautiful Singing, released in 2009, has become a staple course text for colleges across the country. This is the perfect follow-up: a workbook for the undergraduate student. One could think of it as "Cantabile-lite." The primary book still needs to be in the hands of the instructor, but this less-comprehensive version is an essential companion resource, at a quarter of the price. 10540437 Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.99 Choir Director Plan-It (The Ultimate Planning Guide)—Janet Day. Organizing a choral music program can be like a jigsaw puzzle! Make your life easier with this one-of-a-kind resource designed just for you, the choir director, with everything in one essential collection. Packed with helpful charts, calendars, reproducible forms, and tips for a successful choir, this guide will help you stay organized and plan ahead for the whole school year. Highlights include: 40 weekly rehearsal/ lesson planning charts; 12-month calendar; reproducible forms for student information; music performance evaluation; audition forms; concert planning; assessment rubrics based on the National Standards and more! 10070781 Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.99 Choir Karate (A Sequential Assessment Program for Middle School Singers)—Lisa Owens. As choir directors, we are constantly challenged to find ways to balance fun with music performance and theory. Assessment is an essential part of what we do. This program was created for students who used to get nervous when it was time to do testing, particularly sight-reading tests. Based on principles from learning karate, this program makes a game out of testing utilizing short tests with immediate rewards that lead students to take ownership of their own progress toward becoming independent musicians. The concepts for middle school singers are divided into seven sections with progressively more challenging material at different "belt" levels. The program contains a study guide for each level as well as a student tracking form for each year in choir, written theory tests, and oral sight-reading and rhythm- reading tests. There are printable certificates and reward passes for completing the various levels. A great tool for district alignment and common assessments before students move on to their high school choral programs! 10645685 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . 45.00 10770056 Wall Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.50 Choral Cantabile—Katharin Rundus. The third book on vocal training in the Cantabile series by Dr. Rundus, this one is tailored specifically for the choral director. The first book, Cantabile, is a graduate-level text that has become enormously popular throughout the U.S. and abroad for voice teachers, professors and choral directors. Her second book, Cantabile Voice Class, is aimed at the undergraduate student. This important third book provides a systematic approach to teach lyrical singing and tone broken down into 10-12 minute lessons intended to be incorporated into your choral rehearsal. An exceptional resource! 10748270 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . 19.99 Choral Ensemble Intonation (Method, Procedures and Exercises)—James Jordan & Matthew Mehaffey. Faced with persistent intonation problems in their own choirs, authors James Jordan and Matthew Mehaffey developed an innovative new method of choral ensemble solfege that offers dramatic improvement in tuning any choral ensemble. Not just a temporary fix, this method encourages the building of intonation skills within the choral rehearsal setting, using solfege syllables in creative ways to develop aural capabilities in each individual singer. The related video shows these techniques in action with surprising results. Topics such as good vocal production, physical movement and modal analysis are also discussed to aid in the teaching and learning process. Practical and effective, this is a helpful tool for choir directors at every level. 8059056 Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.95 8059059 DVD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.95 Choral Error Detection (Exercises for Developing Musicianship)—Paul Hondorp/ ed. Denise Eaton. Designed to help the choral conductor develop skills of critical listening, this outstanding resource will improve your ability to detect errors in a choir's performance. It is a collection of short choral examples to be utilized for analysis and score preparation. The accompanying audio has a performance of each example with mistakes intentionally included. Using a reproducible evaluation sheet, the listener is challenged to identify and categorize the mistakes and offer solutions to fix them. The examples represent many voicings, textures, time periods and levels of difficulty. The book and audio can be used as a text for choral pedagogy, undergraduate or graduate conducting, and/or rehearsal techniques. It integrates listening into the overall goals of score study and in the development of teaching skills. 10509285 Paperback Book/ Online Audio Access. . . . . . 34.99 Choral Singing Step by Step (Eleven Concise Lessons for Individual or Choral Ensemble Use)—James Jordan. This unique self-study guide distills the essentials of good vocal technique into eleven concise, accessible lessons. Prepared by acclaimed conductor and pedagogue James Jordan, it is a perfect guide for amateur and novice choir members who wish to improve their own singing technique and better understand the singing process. Topics include: good intonation and tuning; breathing; support; resonance; vowel colors; range and diction. A must read for singers, studio teachers and choral conductors alike. 10295238 Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.95 l The Conductor as Prism (The Power of Metaphor in Artistry)—James Jordan. Through his teaching at The Choral Institute at Oxford each summer, James Jordan has realized the power of metaphor for teaching the highest artistic concepts involving human connection and deeper listening. In this book, Jordan uses powerful and effective metaphors as a guide to help conductors engage the most profound concepts of artistry in music - concepts that are often elusive to teach or learn. Jordan shows that using metaphors can be effective doorways to understanding our role as artist teacher/conductors in new and vibrant ways. Areas explored include listening, breath, sense of belonging, generosity, self-realization, honesty, and more. A must read for all choral directors. 10796802 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . 21.95 Copyright Handbook for Music Educators and Directors—Pam Phillips & Andrew Surmani. The Copyright Handbook for Music Educators and Directors provides a concise overview of the key aspects of copyright law that affect music educators and directors in the United States. Designed to provide answers to the most common questions raised by educators and directors, this resource makes it easy to find specific answers and is arranged in a user-friendly question-and-answer format. For ease of use, a thorough glossary of terms and an extensive index are included. Not meant to replace legal counsel, the Copyright Handbook is a starting point for music educators and directors with questions concerning copyright. Topics: how to determine if a work is protected by copyright; the use of print music and lyrics; the use of audio; the use of video; digital products and the internet; performance rights; and composing and arranging. 10773128 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . 19.99 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 Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers —Robby Burns. Looking for some sanity in the midst of all of your chaotic responsibilities? If you are feeling overwhelmed by the logistics of your job, you are in luck - there's an app for that! Actually, a lot of apps. Whether you can barely turn your computer on or if you are just looking for tips on how to make your work more efficient, there is something in store for you. The technologies in this book are presented in bite-sized descriptions of desktop and mobile apps, followed by examples of how they can solve specific problems that music teachers experience every day. 10715362 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . 18.95