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BOOKS & RESOURCES / SIGHT-SINGING & WARM-UPS
Warm-Ups for Changing Voices (Building
Healthy Habits for Middle School
Singers)—Dan Andersen. As any middle
school choir director knows, change is the
name of the game! A changing voice is just
one of countless physiological and emotional
changes that middle school students
experience. Knowing the general limits of
male and female changing voices, as well as
the specific capabilities of your students, are
two keys to building healthy and happy middle
school singers. This book is an accessible
must-read resource for any middle school
choir director looking to foster stronger, more
capable musicians. It offers 25 warm-up
exercises along with customized grade-
specific tips for using them, along with free
access to accompanying audio recordings.
10760571 Book with Online
Audio Access . . . . . . . . . . .29.99
Way Over in Beulah Lan' (Understanding
and Performing the Negro Spiritual)—
Andre J. Thomas. Renowned choral
conductor and educator Andre J. Thomas
has crafted a book that the conductor of any
choral ensemble will want close at hand when
preparing to program any concert spiritual.
Understanding the Spiritual, the first of the
book's two sections, is an exploration of the
beginnings of the spiritual, its role in society
and its transition into art music. Issues of
interpretation-text, diction, rhythm, and
tempo-are addressed in the second section,
Performing the Spiritual. Includes interviews
with Dr. Anton Armstrong and Professor
Judith Willougby. This practical book will
help you develop a firm understanding of the
spiritual and realize the full potential of the
spirituals your choirs perform!
10029409 Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34.95
What Every Musician Needs to Know About
the Body (Revised Edition) (The Practical
Application of Body Mapping to Making
Music)—Bridget Jankowski. This primer for all
musicians provides a reliable base for a lifetime
of playing and singing. The principles in these
pages are the elemental foundation of music
education and will protect a musician from injury,
promote the physical freedom and sensitivity
needed for technical mastery, and secure the
embodied intelligence that grounds musical
power and subtlety. Musicians teaching from
these principles will see their students thrive.
Students studying and restudying these pages
will delight in their enhanced performance.
What's new in the Revised Edition? Created
with the input of experienced Licensed Body
Mapping Educators and led by body mapping
expert Bridget Jankowski, this edition includes
updated and enlarged images big enough for
coloring; streamlined and clarified content
based on new science; an updated format that
follows the associated body mapping course
more closely; additional room for notes at the
end of each section and more.
11428228 Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29.95
Your Music Career Is NOT Over (Surviving
Challenges, Setbacks, Injuries, and Failures)
—Rick Mattingly. Every musician has had
career disappointments, challenges, and even
failures. Often, when faced with discouraging
experiences, musicians may feel that their
career is over or is never going to start. How
do they overcome these challenges to find
success? In this book, a diverse group of
successful musicians relates a variety of
situations that seemed devastating at the time
but were overcome, learned from, and triumphed
over. The stories are powerful, motivational,
and truly inspiring. Featuring interviews with
Kenny Aronoff, Eddie Bayers, John Beasley,
and 42 others.
11428238 Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24.95
Sight-Singing
& Warm-Ups
31 Bach Chorales for Sight Singing—ed.
John Leavitt. John Leavitt has selected and
edited 31 Bach chorales for choirs to sight-read
and perform. Each chorale includes English
and German texts along with pedagogical
suggestions to help your singers build skills
and develop musical literacy. It's a great tool
for school, church and community groups!
3296976 SATB Choral Score . . ME 5.35
90 Days to Sight Reading Success 3.0
(A Singer's Resource for Competitive
Sightsinging)—Stan McGill & H. Morris
Stevens. Here's another follow-up edition to
the classic sight-reading workbook! Presented
with expanded online audio access, it is
tailored to the needs of the secondary school
choir student preparing for vocal sight-
reading auditions. It's a compact, streamlined
approach to sight-singing that really works, at a
bargain price!
10944454 Unison Book
& Online Audio . . . . . . . . . .18.95
90 Days to Sight-Reading Success (A
Singer's Resource for Competitive Sight
Singing)—Stan McGill & H. Morris Stevens, Jr.
This sight-reading workbook with online audio
access is tailored to the needs of the secondary
school choir student preparing for vocal sight-
reading auditions. It's a compact, streamlined
approach to sight singing that really works, at a
bargain price!
3700864 Unison Book
& Online Audio . . . . . . . . . .18.95
A Cappella Warm-Ups for Pop and Jazz
Choirs—Deke Sharon & J.D. Frizzell. Deke
Sharon and J.D. Frizzell have provided a
wide array of warm-ups specifically designed
for pop and jazz choirs that will also work well
for contemporary a cappella groups. There
are over 39 creative exercises which do much
more than just warm up the voice; they help
to relax the body, train the ear, and develop
an awareness of dynamics and rhythm. This
book can help you address the full range of
skills required for great music making while
polishing your weak spots and honing your
strengths. Topics include rhythm, syllables,
tone, intervals, dynamics, intonation, blend,
balance, pitch, improvisation, solo techniques,
and vocal percussion.
10759726 SATB Choral Score with
Online Audio Access . . . . .29.99
Alfred's Sight-Singing Flashcards (Hand
Signs, Rhythms, Intervals, and Pitch Patterns)
—Alfred Music Publishing Supplement your
sight-singing curriculum with these engaging
flashcards that encourage active learning in
both choral and classroom settings. Organized
in four color-coded sets, these eye-catching
educational manipulatives include solfege
syllables, Curwen hand signs, common 4/4
rhythms, ascending and descending intervals,
and simple melodic pitch patterns. What an
engaging way to introduce, practice, review,
and even gamify your sight-singing curriculum!
Forty double-sided cards are included - that's
80 dynamic drills in total! .
11571999 Flash Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . .34.99
Another 90 Days to Sight Reading Success
(A Singer's Resource for Competitive Sight-
singing)—Stan McGill & H. Morris Stevens,
Jr. Following the success of 90 Days to Sight
Reading Success, this excellent book provides
more training exercises to help singers prepare
for sight reading competitions, with improved
and expanded online audio access.
10063363 Unison Book
& Online Audio . . . . . . . . . .18.95
Choir Builders—Rollo Dilworth. Have fun
with your choral warm-ups! With this collection
of 54 inventive and educational songs and
exercises, your choir will beg for more. Start out
with the unison pieces and build to the more
challenging exercises for two-part, three-part,
or four-part treble or mixed voices.
10022984 Unison/Mixed Reproducible Book
& Online Audio Access. . . .33.99
10084295 Choir Builders For Growing
Voices #1 Book With Online
Audio Access . . . . . . . . . . .21.99
10429105 Choir Builders For Growing
Voices #2 Book/CD . . . . . .21.99
The Choral Playbook (Warm-Ups, Rounds,
Rehearsal Strategies, and More to Spark
Joy and Connection)—Anna Wentlent. Place
student joy at the center of your curriculum with
this practical resource for singers of all ages.
With over 80 exercises that teach ensemble
skills in an informal, playful manner, this
thoughtful collection is filled with opportunities
for movement, connection, student agency,
and more. The book includes physical and
vocal warm-ups, solfege patterns, rounds, silly
songs, choir games, rehearsal strategies, and
a downloadable PDF, making this an easily
projectable and engaging resource!
11572002 Unison Book
& Online PDF . . . . . . . . . . .29.99
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