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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—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, and 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29.99
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
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
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
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18.00
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47.95
10274685 CD Set 1-2 CD Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25.95
10463158 CD Set 2-2 CD Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25.95
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