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NEW & BEST-SELLING BOOKS
for the Choral Director
New!
A Cappella—Brody McDonald, Deke Sharon
& Ben Spalding.
More than any other person,
Deke Sharon is responsible for the current success
of pop a cappella. Combine Deke's expertise
with that of directors Ben Spalding and Brody
McDonald, a foreword by Ben Folds, advice
from Peter Hollens, and you have one of the
most comprehensive volumes ever created on
the subject of contemporary a cappella singing.
The book is divided into eight sections: Setting
the Stage; Getting the Band Together; Arranging;
Preparing; Technology; Making a Name; Extras and
Making It.
10523225 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . . .24.99
A Cappella Arranging—Deke Sharon &
Dylan Bell.
A Cappella Arranging is the long-
awaited definitive work on the subject of writing
arrangements of popular or traditional songs for
a cappella groups. This book targets not only
beginners, music students, and community groups,
but professional and semi-professional performers,
vocal/instrumental songwriters, composers, and
producers, providing genre-specific insight on a
cappella writing. Highly recommended!
10345727 Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34.99
A to Z of Foreign Musical Terms—
Christine Ammer.
This handy book provides
quick answers and definitions of basic terms as
well as guides to Italian, German, and French
pronunciation.
7919004 Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10.75
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. 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12.99
Before the Singing (Structuring Children's
Choirs for Success)—Barbara Tagg.
This is a comprehensive guide to forming,
expanding, and empowering choirs in school,
church, or community. Topics include: boards
of directors; finances; rehearsals; touring;
commissioning new works; promotion and
fundraising; building community and more.
An extensive children's choir repertoire list with
over 700 titles is included along with essays by
nationally recognized leaders in the choral field.
10392767 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . . .29.95
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
New!
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
New!
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 CD 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 CD 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
with MP3 Audio CD . . . . . . . . .34.99
Common Core: Re-Imagining the Music
Rehearsal and Classroom (Standards,
Curriculum, Assessment, Instruction)—
Paul Kimpton & Ann Kimpton.
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 kindergarten
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
Diction—John Moriarty.
This text book
for singers is a comprehensive guide to the
pronunciation of Italian, French, Ecclesiastical Latin
and German, in an approach developed for diction
classes. It is thorough, scholarly, yet practical
and easy-to-use. The pronunciation guides are
provided for Italian, French and German languages
through the use of the International Phonetic
Alphabet, along with 81 exercises for singing them.
New to this edition are 36 audio tracks provided by
the author containing all of the exercises. These
audio tracks are available as free downloads.
4525291 Book with online audio . . . . . .38.00
Getting Started with Middle School
Chorus (Second Edition)—Patrick K. Freer.
If you are a new choral teacher or an experienced
teacher new to middle school chorus, Getting
Started with Middle School Chorus is here to point
you in the right direction! Well organized into twelve
chapters, it covers all of the practical concerns you
have, from budgeting, scheduling and recruiting to
choosing choral repertoire, planning rehearsals and
addressing the unique challenges of the changing
adolescent voice. At just over 100 pages, including
lists of suggested resources, this is the ideal book
to help you begin your new job with confidence!
10345837 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . . .25.00
The Language of Music—Timothy Seelig.
Music is the universal language, but for choral
musicians there is an added layer of challenge and
opportunity: words! The Language of Music will
take you from the most basic tools of delivering
text to the overarching and magical communication
that takes place in choral singing. The book
includes accompanying video clips to guide you.
The connection you make with your audiences
through your words and music will take your
performances to another level!
10274474 Book/DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34.99
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
New!
Sound as Teacher (Growing the
Conductor's Perceptual Mind)—
James Jordan.
In Sound as Teacher, James
Jordan shares a new perceptual pedagogy for
training conductors which he discovered while
teaching at the Choral Institute at Oxford, a
program he co-directs with British composer
James Whitbourn. This book focuses on imageries
to guide conductors into a more multidimensional
hearing process. The text outlines the framework of
Jordan's teaching at the Choral Institute at Oxford.
Sound as Teacher focuses on various independent
but related paradigms for hearing "into" sound.
The principles presented in this book are useful to
all conductors and teachers, regardless of the level
of the ensemble.
10548032 Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24.95
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