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Books & Videos on Training the Chorus
Choral Methods & Sight-Singing Materials
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 CD 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 Book/CD Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.95
Choir Builders—Rollo Dilworth. Have fun with
your choral warm-ups! With this collection of fifty-
four 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 2-part, 3-part or 4-part treble or mixed voices.
10022984 Book/CD Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.99
Choir Builders for Growing Voices
(18 Vocal Exercises for Warm-up & Workout)—
Emily Crocker & Rollo Dilworth.
It is never too
early to begin teaching proper vocal technique to
young singers. Here are 18 fun and original exercises
that will get the voices of your young students on
the right track to producing a quality sound. Posture,
breathing, flexibility, range of voice and more are
all addressed in the exercises. Sing along with the
demonstration tracks on the enclosed CD for quick
learning, or use the accompaniment-only tracks
for ear training and assessment options. Get ready
to workout to a better sounding choir! Warm-ups
include: Articulate!; At the Market; Diction Warm-up;
The Giant and the Flea; Interval Training; Phineas the
Frog; Tune Your Voices, and more!
10084295 Unison Reproducible Book/CD
Volume 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.99
new!
Choir Builders for Growing Voices (24 More
Vocal Exercises for Warm-up & Workout)—
Rollo Dilworth.
This second volume of the popular
series offers 24 more warm-ups and workouts.
Strengthen phrasing and breath control, use dynamic
expression, enhance independent and harmonic
singing, perform accurate articulations, swing eighths
and syncopation patterns, practice proper diction,
rhythm accuracy, and more. Sing along with the
demonstration tracks on the enclosed CD, or use
the accompaniment-only tracks for ear training and
assessment options. 12 of the exercises also offer
optional Orff and percussion accompaniment parts.
10429105 Unison Reproducible Book/CD
Volume 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.99
Choral Approach to Sight Singing—
Emily Crocker & Joyce Eilers.
Here is an exciting
sight-singing method for middle school and junior high
choirs! This method begins at square one, assuming
no previous training. With logical organization and
sequencing, it moves quickly, is easy to use, and
will give you quick results. Harmonically combinable
exercises develop rhythmic and melodic independence,
and the three-part mixed songs may be sung a cappella
or accompanied. Volume One stresses rhythmic
concepts; Volume Two harmonic and melodic concepts.
1750751 Three-Part Mixed Director's Score
Volume 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.99
1750769 Three-Part Mixed Singer's Edition
Volume 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.50
1750793 Three-Part Mixed Director's Score
Volume 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.99
1750801 Three-Part Mixed Singer's Edition
Volume 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.50
Choral Warmup Collection—
ed. Sally Albrecht.
The Choral Warmup Collection
is an incredible new resource that contains warm-ups
for every situation and focuses on many different vocal
areas. This superb sourcebook features 167 favorite
warm-ups contributed by 51 choral directors from
across the nation. The text is organized into several
categories, including: Beginning Warmups; Breathing;
Vowels; Flexibility; Intervals; Intonation; Blend; Phrasing;
and Diction. Clear objectives for each exercise are
included with practical and time-saving techniques that
will ensure success with singers of any age. Choral
directors will quickly adopt this tool as an indispensable
part of their artistic and vibrant choral program!
3298107 Unison Choral Score . . . . . . . . . . . 24.99
The Complete Choral Warm-Up Book—
Russell Robinson & Jay Althouse.
Here's the
easiest-to-use book of warm-ups ever, with enough
warm-ups for years of rehearsals! There are 211
warm-ups in all, carefully organized into eight practical
categories: Warm-Ups to Begin the Rehearsal;
Transitional Warm-Ups; Warm-Ups with Fun Texts
and Syllables; Chordal Warm-Ups; Warm-Ups
Featuring Interval Training; Jazz/Pop/Swing Warm-
Ups; Just for Church Choirs and Rounds. Dozens of
photos, which illustrate correct posture and vowel
formation, highlight the five chapters of insightful text,
entitled: Why Warm Up?; Warm-Up Considerations
for Different Age Groups; The Warm-Up Before the
Performance; Procedures and Precautions and Rest
and the Voice. Whether you're an experienced choral
director or just starting your first job, you'll want to
have this valuable resource handy at all times, and
your choir will benefit from it, too!
1994821 Unison Choral Score . . . . . . . . . . . 23.99
Essential Sight Singing, Vol. 1—Emily Crocker
& John Leavitt.
This handy octavo-size book will
help you to build sight-singing skills in all of your
choral ensembles. Featuring a step-by-step approach,
unison and combinable exercises, and motivating
short songs, these editions provide a basis for
developing music literacy within the choral rehearsal,
allowing your singers to develop their full individual
potential. Also available is an accompaniment CD that
provides light accompaniment (without singing) for
the combinable pitch builders, speech choruses and
songs. The process of converting symbol to sound
and sound to symbol is at the heart of becoming
musically literate, and this book is the best way to
achieve that goal!
3303897 Mixed Voices Singer's Edition . . . . . 3.95
3303898 CD for Mixed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.99
3303899 Treble Voices Singer's Edition . . . . . 3.95
3303900 CD for Treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.99
3303901 Male Voices Singer's Edition . . . . . . 3.95
3303902 CD for Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.95
Essential Sight Singing, Vol. 2—Emily Crocker
& John Leavitt.
This second volume will help you
continue to build skills in your choral ensembles with a
handy octavo-sized book. This step-by-step approach
uses unison and combinable exercises along with
motivating songs to provide a basis for developing music
literacy within the choral rehearsal. The CDs provide
light accompaniment for the combinable pitch builders,
speech choruses and songs. In keeping with the spirit of
sight-reading, there is no singing on the CDs.
10010163 Mixed Voices Singer's Edition . . . . . 4.95
10010164 CD for Mixed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.95
10010165 Treble Voices Singer's Edition . . . . . 4.95
10010166 CD for Treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.95
10010167 Male Voices Singer's Edition . . . . . . 4.95
10010168 CD for Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.95
The Folk Song Sight Singing Series—
Edited by Edgar Crowe, Annie Lawton &
Gillies Whittaker.
These standard sight-singing
books have been favorites with choral directors and
classroom teachers since their first publication in
1933. Each volume is a collection of folk tunes from
around the world, carefully selected and organized
to lead the student from simple rhythms gradually
to more difficult ones. Intended to be sung without
words (to a single syllable such as la, or to solfa),
these books provide training in the full gamut of keys
as they teach sensitivity to dynamics and phrasing.
4816476 Unison Choral Score Volume 1 . . . . 6.25
4816484 Unison Choral Score Volume 2 . . . . 6.25
InSight Singing: A Multi-Sensory Approach
to Reading Music—Denise Eaton, Jan Juneau
& Sally Schott.
Imagine your students becoming
independent sight-readers! This book provides a
systematic process for improving the following:
sight-singing skills, integration of visual, auditory
and kinesthetic learning styles in reading music, and
overall musicianship. The learning strategies which
accompany the melodies presented in this text
incorporate all senses through multisensory learning.
These ideas give direction to the learner and the
teacher in developing the necessary musical skills and
confidence to sight-sing in a manner which includes
musical accuracy while encouraging good vocal
technique. Using this type of consistent, thoughtful
organization of concepts, students can learn to be
secure in their abilities as music readers, as well as
becoming "insightful singers."
10356086 Choral Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.99
Jenson Sight Singing Course—
David Bauguess.
An incredibly popular sight-
singing method, this is based on the solfege system
(with optional numbers) and gives you a step-by
step plan for teaching your choir the fundamentals
of sight-singing. By spending just 10 minutes a day
on sight-singing, you will dramatically improve your
choir's music skills in just a matter of weeks! The
materials in Volume 1 include 334 diatonic exercises
and a glossary of music terms, with an excellent
instructional text in the Teacher's Edition. Volume 2 is
a logical continuation of this method, or is for groups
that are already proficient in solfege. It includes 244
exercises with an easy-to-understand approach to
chromatics, and also covers such topics as more
advanced divisions and sub-divisions of the beat,
minor tonalities and more. An added feature of this
method is an excellent supplement, the Jenson Sight-
Singing Part Exercises, which is a collection of 82
exercises for use with this or any other sight-singing
program. Including rounds, 2, 3 and 4-part exercises,
graded original material and excerpts from the choral
repertoire, this is an excellent bridge between singing
just "exercises" and true choral literature! This is
exceptionally popular with your colleagues, so you
owe it to yourself to examine this very carefully!
1545060 Unison Director's Score Volume 1 . . 19.99
1545045 Unison Singer's Edition Volume 1 . . . 3.95
1569078 Unison Director's Score Volume 2 . . 19.99
1569086 Unison Singer's Edition Volume 2 . . . 3.50
1647643 SATB Choral Score Part Exercises . . 3.95
One-Minute Sight Singing—Holly Shaw-
Slabbinck & Ronald Slabbinck.
One-Minute
Sight Singing teaches and reinforces the essentials
of solfege-based sight singing without cutting into
valuable rehearsal time. The curriculum, structured as
a collection of one-minute lessons, targets students
of all ages who are new to sight singing. It also
serves as an ideal component to the regular choral
warm-up routine for singers of all experience levels.
Singers who are new to music reading and theory will
appreciate the helpful reminders interspersed before
new concepts are introduced in the music. The careful
progression of lessons ensures that singers will gain a
solid mastery of sight singing, movable "Do" solfege,
and Curwen hand symbols. One-Minute Sight Singing
is uniquely designed, with exercises duplicated in both
treble and bass clefs. Not only does this help singers
learn to read and sight sing in both clefs, but directors
may also use the unison exercises to help improve
tuning and breath support. A great choice for school,
youth, community and church choirs!
10083189 Choral Book Vol. 1
Beginner/Intermediate . . . . . . . . . . . 8.95
10097722 Choral Book Vol. 2
Intermediate/Advanced . . . . . . . . . . 8.95
