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205 Order Toll Free! Call 1.800.345.6296 / w: jwpepper.com / e: [email protected] DIRECTOR RESOURCES Go to cart BOOKS & RESOURCES FOR THE CHORAL DIRECTOR Educating Young Singers—Mary Goetze, Angela Broeker & Ruth Boshkoff. Organized into three sections, Educating Young Singers offers strategies for integrating pedagogical and musical knowledge into your rehearsals that can help to lay a foundation for rewarding performances. Each section provides ideas, processes, demonstrations, and activities that will help promote singing and musicianship in young choristers and inspire you to find new ways to bring the joy of learning and performing music to the young people in your choirs. Unit one, First Things First, addresses the steps taken prior to rehearsal. Unit two, The Toolbox, provides a vast array of pedagogical techniques and materials, and Unit three, Putting It All Together, offers suggestions for application. A DVD is included. 10628042 Book/DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.95 Everyday Wisdom for Inspired Teaching—Tim Lautzenheiser. What are the secret ingredients of master teachers? If you were a student in your class, what would you be learning? Would it be both exciting and valuable? How do you create a disciplined classroom environment without becoming a dictator? How can failure become a pathway to success? What are the qualities of true leaders? Tim Lautzenheiser explores the real-world questions, fears, and doubts all outstanding educators have. In the process, he discovers a gold mine of opportunities for teachers to assess their own effectiveness and reach the highest levels possible. In four parts (The Art of Teaching; Developing an Attitude for Success; Teacher Leadership Skills; and Selection and Encouragement of Student Leaders), Tim calls teachers and administrators to action. He writes, "It is easy to 'dream the dream' and even exciting to sit down and 'draw up the plan,' but doing it, actually taking action, seems to be where many halt... Don't react: act." 10001221 Hardcover Book . . . . . . . . . 24.95 Evoking Sound (Fundamentals of Choral Conducting - Second Edition)—James Jordan. Now significantly revised and expanded, with a foreword by Morten Lauridsen, James Jordan's groundbreaking book incorporates more than ten years of new conducting insights, pedagogy, and philosophy to create a resource that is not only informative but transformative. Unique to this edition is the inclusion of a revolutionary DVD (also available separately as The Anatomy of Conducting) with Dr. Jordan and Eugene Migliaro Corporon of the University of North Texas. For the first time, a conducting text contains visual examples of patterns that, with the help of state-of-the-art animation and multiple camera angles, guide you to a deeper understanding of how conducting gesture influences sound. Hardcover book with DVD, 466 pages. 10076671 Book/DVD Second Edition . . 49.95 Evoking Sound: Choral Vocal Technique (The Choral Warmup)—Sabine Horstmann. Inspired by the teachings of her mentor, the legendary Frauke Haasemann, Sabine Horstmann has written these creative exercises for choirs at any level of development. Written in a straightforward, direct manner, this volume provides 94 sequential exercises that can serve as the central part of vocal training for your choir. Topics include: an overview of the "how" and "why" of vocal pedagogy; techniques for teaching posture, breathing, resonance, and relaxation; exercises for high range, low range, dynamics, and diction; suggestions for planning the choral warm-up; and canonic exercises for developing voice and ear. The author is instructor of Group Vocal Technique and Voice at the Robert Schumann University in Dusseldorf. She has extensive experience working with singers of all ages. 10066443 Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.95 10445412 DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.95 Evoking Sound: The Choral Rehearsal (Volume 1 - Techniques and Procedures)—James Jordan. This comprehensive book is intended for choirs at all skill levels, and covers a wide range of subjects, including: rehearsal preparation and planning, how to listen, conducting gesture as a rehearsal technique, the accompanist and the rehearsal, how to teach artistic phrasing, rehearsal accountability, and the spirit of the rehearsal. The volume also deals with approaches to teaching rhythm, using recording technology as part of the rehearsal, introducing your choir to IPA, incorporating Dalcroze and Laban into the rehearsal, and the count singing system of Robert Shaw. 10030312 Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.95 10039267 Choral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.95 Evoking Sound: The Choral Rehearsal (Volume 2 - Inward Bound-Philosophy and Score Preparation)—James Jordan. For the first time in a single volume, this book provides choral directors with a comprehensive guide to score analytical techniques used by the world's leading choral conductors and innovators. Topics covered include: Score analysis by Julius Herford; Score study through colorization by Margaret Hillis; Vocal technique analysis system of Frauke Haasemann; Score analysis based upon the note-grouping theories of Marcel Tabiteau as espoused by James Thurmond; Analysis and guide to Renaissance metric flexibility; Laban Movement score analysis; Choosing literature for your choir; A voice teacher's advice to choral directors concerning their rehearsal process. This text is a groundbreaking resource for choral conductors at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. 10043460 Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.95 Finding Ophelia's Voice, Opening Ophelia's Heart (Nurturing the Adolescent Female Voice)—Lynne Gackle. Lynne Gackle, Associate Professor of Ensembles and Assistant Choral Director at Baylor University, has long been an advocate for the power of singing as a catalyst for positive change and self-actualization in adolescent girls. Her landmark text is a synthesis of these ideas, reflecting her unmatched expertise on the working of the female voice and a lifetime of experience and research. Serving to enlighten and encourage teachers and choral directors of these students, Finding Ophelia's Voice, Opening Ophelia's Heart addresses the symptoms of vocal change in the female voice, along with physiological factors that affect it. Appropriate choral literature, recordings, and other educational materials are also presented. The included DVD, which may be used as a teaching tool in the classroom, provides demonstrations of the phases of vocal maturation, voice classification, vocal techniques, and other pedagogical strategies, all with the help of an all-girl choir (ages 12-16) under the direction of Dr. Gackle. 10090243 Book/DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.95 4 Front Loading Your Choral Rehearsal— Christine Bass. Front-Loading Your Choral Rehearsal: Constructing for Success is a creative rehearsal approach designed to aid conductors of all experience levels. Using the building blocks of musical concepts, style, and delivery, Front- Loading offers invaluable tools to help conductors scaffold their singers' learning toward a collective goal of transformative performances. Concepts come alive in real time through the video clips of working rehearsals embedded in the narrative. Practical in application yet sophisticated in approach, Christine Bass condenses decades of experience into Front-Loading, a comprehensive rehearsal technique guide for conductors striving to reach the next level of excellence in their work. 10793912 Book/Online Video Access . . . . . . . . . . . 29.99 Grading for Musical Excellence (Making Music an Essential Part of Your Grades)— 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 . . . . . . . . . 25.95 Habits of a Successful Choir Director—Eric Wilkinson & Scott Rush. Habits of a Successful Choir Director presents effective teaching principles and provides a practical approach to everyday issues that choir directors face. Building on the successful Habits of series, Wilkinson and Rush have created a practical guide to all aspects of a successful choral program, including: program organization and management, teaching the components of singing, rehearsal strategies and ensemble fundamentals, music literacy and repertoire selection, strategies for assessment, and the significance of music making. Additional sections address musicianship, classroom management, working with parents and colleagues, the importance of warm-up time, building student leadership, professional development, field trips, fundraising, scheduling, developing a mission statement and quality-of- life issues. This is a comprehensive book that will exponentially inspire as teaching skills grow. It will serve as a constant and essential companion throughout the career of any choir director. 10755697 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . 29.95 l Igniting Choral Resources—Michael Kemp. Let an internationally respected choral clinician take you beyond the analytical study of anthems. Using his innovative concept of unique musical focuses, Michael Kemp lays out a sequential set of pedagogical steps in teaching a score and incorporating stylistic, historical, and analytical information to shape the work in terms of vocal tone and rhythmic articulation. His unique motivational flashes are creative templates for analyzing scores that provide techniques to pace and engage singers fully in the rehearsal process. Kemp has included 17 carefully annotated choral scores, including works by Praetorius, Handel, Luboff, and Alonso. Kemp gives a vast toolbox with which to solve almost every problem that director's will encounter with their choirs, and help their singers grow in vocal skill and musical understanding. 10779647 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . 29.95 l Inside the Choral Rehearsal—James Jordan. This book explores both the philosophy and practical application of audiation development for choral ensembles with the goal of contributing to a lifelong acquisition of musical skill and audiation. Jordan has spent 35 years developing these applications of Edwin E. Gordon's Music Learning Theory. This books provides its readers with new rehearsal techniques, approaches to aural literacy, philosophies for teaching aural literacy, philosophies for teaching the essential elements of musicianship, understanding of space audiation, and much more. 10826301 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . 44.95 IPAlphabet (The Vocal Music Resource for Pronunciation)—Cristian Grases. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is the standard source for phonetic notation. This resource provides an easy-to-use format for understanding pronunciation for each letter of the alphabet, in any placement within a word, in Spanish, Italian, Latin, French and German. Spiral bound. 10275669 Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.99 The iTheatrics Method (The Quintessential Guide to Creating Quality Musical Theatre Programs)—Timothy Allen McDonald, Cynthia A. Ripley & Marty Johnson. The iTheatrics Method is the first textbook specifically devoted to building high-quality and sustainable musical theatre programs in schools and community settings. This book is the culmination of more than 20 years of hands-on training conducted by master educators and vetted by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Changing Education Through the Arts (CETA) initiative. Written in an entertaining, conversational style, this book also includes the advice of more than 100 instructors currently working in the field. It is the quintessential guide and resource for creating quality musical theatre programs for students of all ages. 10766365 Hardcover Book . . . . . . . . . 49.95 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. While some of these exercises are for rehearsal only, others may be shared in worship or in concert settings. Everything presented in the book was born out of the author's own needs as a conductor of children's choirs. 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 Master Strategies for Choir—Michael Jothen. This useful book contains over 70 ready-to-use reproducible rubrics and worksheets for the choral rehearsal, grades 6-12. It is organized into three sections: 1) Choir as a sound laboratory, covering choral techniques; 2) Choir as a rehearsal classroom, addressing history, style and theory; 3) Choir as a concert venue, presenting concert etiquette and assessment. This multi-faceted resource will add a new dimension to your choir rehearsals! 3303903 Book Reproducible . . . . . . . 24.99 Music Curriculum Writing 101 (Assistance with Standards-Based Music Curriculum and Assessment Writing)—Denese Odegaard. Help music students learn more in less time, reach higher goals, and become active participants in their education. An extremely beneficial text for band, choir, orchestra and general music that provides the steps needed to create an effective music education curriculum for you, your school, and your district. A sequenced music curriculum gives direction to your teaching, builds cohesion among your colleagues, engages students and parents in goals you set, and builds awareness and support from your school's administrators. Contents include: overview of the national and state music standards; aligning district standards to the national or state standards; suggested activities for each national standard; designing an organized curriculum of lesson plans; assessments; organizing assessment documentation; student involvement; curriculum sample with resources and websites. A must for all music educators! 10075115 Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.95 The Music Teacher's First Year (Tales of Challenge, Joy, and Triumph)—Beth Peterson. From a first-year teacher whose instruments were stolen before entering his building and a teacher who received "hate mail" before her first day, to a teacher whose sensitivity, flexibility and insight gained her the respect of her ensemble in only weeks, this collection of true stories from first-year teachers is a delightful description of their real world. In addition, each chapter includes discussion questions for pre-service and young teachers as they prepare for their teaching future. 10289637 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . 24.95