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Essential 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.
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.
How many years has it been since your last diction class? 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. And 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9.99
Common Core: Re-Imagining the Music Rehearsal and Classroom (Standards, Curriculum,
Assessment, Instruction)—Paul Kimpton & Ann Kimpton.
Teaching in the 21st century can be a daunting
yet exhilarating experience. It is daunting because a plethora of initiatives have been hurled at educators
from every direction. Current and future music educators must continually adapt their teaching philosophies,
strategies, rehearsals, music selection processes, assessment practices, and grading procedures to justify one
of the most important subjects a student can study, and that is music. Common Core: Re-Imagining the Music
Rehearsal and Classroom, complete with workbook exercises and reflective questions, is about transforming
a written document, The Common Core State Standards, into practical applications in the music classroom.
Authors Paul and Ann Kimpton outline how to use the Common Core State Standards to help students develop a
higher level of understanding of musical skills and content, and to help students engage with music more deeply
and with more meaning. Intended for kindergarden through college music educators, administrators, and pre-
service educators, this book is an excellent resource that can have a profound impact on the music classroom.
10463561 Spiral Bound Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27.95
Compelling Choral Concerts—Linda Crabtree Powell. Create compelling and memorable choral concerts!
Developed by a veteran teacher who is widely known for her theatrical choral programs, the 13 ready-made plans
here are each unified by theme and dramatic narration. They provide an inspiring template for creating your own
programs (with helpful guidelines) – or use them as they are. Each performance script offers new dimensions to
presenting and understanding the music. Your singers will be excited, and audiences will be delighted!
10492302 Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24.95
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
Messiah: Understanding and Performing Handel's Masterpiece—Helmuth Rilling.
This book on Handel's "Messiah" reflects Helmuth Rilling's remarkable skills, both as a conductor and as an
educator. It is literally a "study guide" for conductors and performers which shows the step-by-step thought
process Rilling uses in preparing a score - a methodology which can be applied to any work. More importantly,
Rilling challenges the reader to probe Handel's thinking - to consider ways of more effectively communicating the
deeper layers of meaning found within this masterwork.
10495178 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20.00
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 (Set 1). The long-awaited second set of middle school choir recordings
feature unison and canons, SA, SSA, SAA, TB, TTB and TTBB repertoire from the series. Of special interest are
seven tracks featuring middle school choirs. These are beautiful recordings of some of the great repertoire in print
for the middle school level that serve as excellent models of what great singing can be at this level.
10274684 Hardcover Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45.95
10274685 CD Set 1-2 CDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25.95
10463158 CD Set 2-2 CDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25.95
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