Roy C. Bennett: Choral Singers Handbook

Your Chorus Shopping Guide It's Audition Time You're In The Chorus Now! Singing Hints Elements Of Music (Prelude To Sightsinging) Sightsinging Look It Up Here

Roy Bennett shares his extraordinary expertise with you from the vantage point of his long experience as a choral singer. This book provides simple, down-to-earth solutions to your group singing problems. “Timely and significant.” –Education Update

6371 BOOK $6.95

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Tony Thornton: Choral Singer's Survival Guide

The Choral Artist Preparing For A Choral Audition Vocal Technique The Audition: Before, During, And After The Rehearsal Score Making For Singers The Choral Performance

While there are a multitude of books on the market for the instruction of choral conductors, there are few resources for choral singers themselves. The Choral Singer’s Survival Guide thoroughly fills that need. This comprehensive instruction manual offers practical instruction and tips to hone choristers’ skills and improve vocal musicianship, including practical tips on audition preparation, sight-reading, rehearsal techniques, diction and much, much more! In addition, the included companion CD contains instructions on proper body alignment, breathing techniques, and vocal exercises that will improve musicianship and ensure progress. This book is a valuable resource for any choral singer. Let The Choral Singer’s Survival Guide focus and enhance your choral experience.

6382 BOOK $24.95

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Ginger Wyrick: The Choir Members Companion

Basic Music Reading Skills Musical Road Maps Basic Vocal Techniques Sight-reading A New Anthem How To Mark Your Music Preparation For Worship Preparation For A Major Performance The Performance

The Choir Member's Companion is designed for use by individual choir members in a local church adult choir. The book is intended for purchase by the choir director to be given to choir members as gifts or as a way for choir members to better understand musical symbols, terminology, and symbols used in choral music. The Choir Member's Companion is designed for use by individual choir members in a local church adult choir. The book is intended for purchase by the choir director to be given to choir members as gifts or as a way for choir members to better understand musical symbols, terminology, and symbols used in choral music.

6440 BOOK $3.95

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Lawrence J. Johnson: A Primer for the Catholic Choir Member

Staff and Clef Notes and Rests Time Values Steps, Scales and Keys Singing in English Latin Pronunciation Rehearsals; The Liturgy A Musical Glossary A Liturgical Glossary

Choir members perform a key ministry in the liturgy of the church, adding beauty and solemnity to each celebration. To develop their musical and liturgical skills, they need encouraging words and solid resources. For this reason both the veteran and novice singer and instrumentalist will find 'A Primer for the Catholic Choir Member' an invaluable vade mecum. It is a handy reference not only for choir members but for all members of a singing assembly.

6566 BOOK $2.95

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Victoria Meredith: Sing Better As You Age

Adult Choral Singer; Why And How? The Many Sides Of Choral Singing The Singer's Voice What To Bodies As They Age? What Happens To Voices As They Age Guidelines For Vocal (Re-) Conditioning Vocal Changes and Challenges Ensemble Musicianship The Next Step

This book is designed as an interactive workbook that will help you to understand how your voice works, and to gain insight into what is taking place physically as you experience vocal changes. Most important, it presents ideas as to what types of actions you can take to improve the condition of your voice so that you can enjoy singing to its fullest.

6495 BOOK $16.95

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Royal Stanton: Steps to Singing for Voice Classes

Making Preparations Breathing to Sing Making Tone Coloring Tone Putting The Parts Together Learning To Perform Learning Musicianship Making Singing Meaningful Moving Toward Artistry Seven Steps to Learning a New Song A Sample Vocal Performance Evaluation Form Musicianship Information for Singers Song Collection

This outstanding volume is well-known for its simplicity, inclusiveness, and integrity to the fundamentals of the art of singing. The late Royal Stanton—an experienced teacher; the founder of Schola Cantorum, a symphonic choir of 150 voices; and a composer and arranger of many nationally published pieces—wrote with the flair to engage and hold the interest of newcomers venturing into the organized process of singing. His nine-step format provides students the opportunity to build on their voice-training achievements. Singing is more than endless exercises and technical devices, and Stanton’s methods have proven effective in guiding beginning students from their initial tentative approaches to phonation, to the outer edges of performance and the rudiments of interpretation. Learning the joys of controlled singing in a friendly environment encourages beginners to think of singing as a natural, peer-approved activity.

Nancy Telfer: Singing In Tune

Causes of Poor Intonation Posture and Intonation Awareness of Poor Intonation Intonation and Repertoire Hearing Your Own Voice Unison and Polyphonic Music Harmonic Music Help for Choirs With Multiple Tuning Problems Flat Singing: Problems with Vocal Production Sharp Singing Pronunciation and Intonation Singing Soft Music Singing Loud Music Dynamics That Change Gradually Music With Sustained Notes High Pitches Low Pitches Ascending and Descending Passages Rhythmic Music Tempo The Piano As a Tuning Aid Tips For Conductors

Nancy Telfer tackles the problem of poor intonation in choirs in Singing in Tune, her new resource for conductors, conductors-in-training, and voice teachers. First exploring the causes of poor intonation, Nancy then offers strategies and activities to overcome the problems. Singing in Tune can be used as a quick reference guide to solving specific problems, or as a comprehensive analysis of the causes of good and poor intonation. An ideal text for all students training to be conductors, and a must read for every choral conductor!

6226 BOOK $9.95

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Nancy Telfer: Singing High Pitches with Ease

Posture Breathing Healthy Warmups for the Voice Relaxation Positioning the Jaw and Chin Vocal Placement Listening for Tone Quality Diction for High Pitches Ascending Phrases Phrases Starting on a High Pitch Long High Pitches Stamina for High-Pitched Music Ending on a High Pitch Good Intonation for High Pitches General Rehearsal Tips for Conductors Special Tips for Children's Voices

Strategies and solutions for conductors, conductors-in-traning, and voice teachers. Once again, Telfer's terrific talent for analyzing a problematic situation and providing solutions will help singers sound better and feel more comfortable, this time with high pitches. By combining knowledge of the voice with vocal psychology, the sound of the choir or an individual voice can be changed. Includes tips for starting and ending on a high pitch, long high pitches, children's voices, and much more. An invaluable resource for all choir directors!

6227 BOOK $9.95

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Jeff Johnson - Ready, Set, Sing!

Activating the Mind Posture and Breathing Learning Styles Activating the Voice Tone Resonance and Placement Expression: Dynamics and Phrase Shaping Intonation Articulation Rhythm

Popular choral clinician Jeff Johnson, Director of Choral Activities University of Kentucky, activates the mind, spirit and singing voice using visual, auditory and kinesthetic activities. Movement is used to alleviate tension and energize the body; motion is used to create emotion. Includes rehearsal techniques for posture, breath management, tone, expression, blend, intonation, articulation and rhythmic awareness.

6052 DVD $29.95

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St. Olaf Choir - A Narrative

The Purple Robes F. Melius Christiansen Music At St. Olaf The Choir Is Born Tours In The Twenties Norway And Germany in The 30's The F. Melius Mode Olaf C. Christiansen Transition Years On Tour With Olaf And Fred Sing To The Lord With A New Song Kenneth Jennings A New Style European Tours To The Orient Anton Armstrong Focus On The Future Beautiful Saviour

The definitive history of the world-renowned St. Olaf Choir under the direction of F. Melius Christiansen, Olaf Christiansen, Kenneth Jennings, and Anton Armstrong, from its meteoric rise to fame in the late 1920s to its continued leadership as one of America's premier choral ensembles in the world today.

6453 BOOK $29.95

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John Jacobson: A Place In The Choir

With a world full of many conflicting voices, it's not always easy to find your own. When you do, you might feel that it is regularly lost in the din of the world. But this is not true. You do have a voice and your contribution is essential to creating a world of genuine harmony. One of America's best-loved musical personalities, John Jacobson brings you this collection of heartwarming essays and inspirational stories. Not just for music teachers, this book is full of life lessons for all of us, so we each can find our very own “place in the choir.” Available in hard cover. 6379 BOOK $22.95

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