This text provides a concise and practical introduction to choral techniques and conducting for potential choral conductors. The author-America's... premier choral conductor, mentored by Robert Shaw-brings 43 years of teaching and workshop experience to this text.

From the nation's top choral master-teachers! Choral Conducting provides direction and guidance for beginning choral conductors, and to stimulate the... practicing conductor who is receptive to alternative approaches to choral development and problem solving. A wealth of experience is revealed in this unique compendium. Virtually every topic is addressed. The cumulative effect is one of breadth and depth.

Choral Conducting is a resource for singers, teachers, and choral conductors, and a college-level text for students of choral conducting. It also... includes an overview of what is involved in leading a choral group and examines theories of learning and human behaviour and the history of choral music together with conductor's role. The book also discusses issues of the conductor-vocalist relationship, the mechanics of singing, rehearsal strategies, and more.

A standard text and information source authored for choral conductors and advanced students of the choral art. Chapters are by leading choral... conductors in the nation.

Choral Connections is built around solid music pedagogy. With fully integrated student texts for each level, students systematically build musical... skills and conceptual understanding while preparing for performance. By far, it is the most comprehensive and complete presentation of choral music curriculum. Choral Connections "connects" with the National Standards, making the performance standards explicit in every lesson. The program fully integrates warm-up and sight-singing skills at the point of use with authentic choral literature pieces. (A separate skill book is not needed.) Choral Connections invites middle school, junior high, and high school students to enter the world of choral performance. This four-level, eight-book program incorporates the National Standards for Music and features a natural choral music teaching style. Choral Connections invites middle school, junior high, and high school students to enter the world of choral performance. This four-level eight-book program incorporates the National Standards for Music and features a natural choral music teaching style. Choral Connections makes logical and meaningful connections to the arts and humanities. Beginning Level 1 . Mixed Voices . Treble Voices . Tenor-Bass Voices

Takes the reader through an enlightening tour of choral music, emphasizing on the musical style performance practice of different historical periods. ... The reference provides guidelines on the numerous aspects of performance practice for choral music based on the Renaissance Period, the Baroque Period, the Classical period, the Romantic period, and the Modern Period, with special emphasis on meter and stress, tempo, dynamics, tone quality, pitch, texture, and expressive aspects of the music of each period. Appropriate for Junior/Graduate-level courses in Choral Conducting and Literature..

By the author of the critically acclaimed Choral Music in the Twentieth Century, this volume is an indispensable resource for choral conductors, a... valuable guide for choral singers and other music lovers, and an essential text for educators and their students. As with his first book, Nick Strimple reviews 100 years of choral music literature, offering a straightforward text that is gratifying and enlightening. Strimple covers repertory by Beethoven, Brahms, Verdi, Faure, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Bruch, Mahler, and lesser figures. The text is illustrated with photos and musical examples, and appendices include works lists organized by type of chorus and accompaniment.

(Amadeus). Nick Strimple's all-encompassing survey ranges from 19th-century masters, such as Elgar, to contemporary composers, such as Tan Dun and Paul... McCartney. Repertory of every style and level of complexity is critically surveyed and described. This book is an essential resource for choral conductors and a valuable guide for choral singers and other music lovers.

This core text provides choral music educators with a well-organized and concise introduction to directing choirs and managing choral programs at the... junior-high through high-school level.

With new chapters, fully updated and revised, Choral Pedagogy is intended to aid the voice teacher, choral conductor, church musician, and professional... or amateur singer develop strategies for lifelong singing. It concisely and clearly presents the principles of voice pedagogy from the perspective of both conducting and voice science in a very user-friendly fashion with helpful charts and simple anatomic diagrams. It offers teaching methods from history and philosophy, medical and voice science, and pedagogical concepts from active musical experts. Special attention is given to the needs of amateur singers and conductors. Topics covered include choral diction, posture and seating, rehearsal practices, and matters of vocal health. This text is a valuable resource for students of choral conducting, music education, church music or choral singing.

This guide presents a detailed discussion of various aspects of historical performance practice, especially as they relate to liturgical polyphony of... the Renaissance. The author considers such issues as timbre, tempo, and rhythm, the makeup of the ensemble, articulation, ornamentation, pitch and tuning, and interpretive goals—issues in which pre-modern choral technique and modern practice have often distinctively diverged. Musicological and performance perspectives are both drawn upon to address these issues in a manner that is both documentary as well as practical.This study will be of interest to musicians who specialize in early music, but it is also particularly addressed to conductors and singers who come to early music from the mainstream and perform it in that context. Mainstream choral conductors faced with the need to develop expression in multiple styles across a broad repertory will come to find the interpretation of historical style a congenial ally.

Choral Repertoire is the definitive and comprehensive one-volume presentation of the canon of the Western choral tradition. Designed for practicing... conductors and directors, students and teachers of choral music, amateur and professional singers, scholars, and interested vocal enthusiasts, it is an account of the complete choral output of the most significant composers of this genre throughout history. Organized by era (Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern), Choral Repertoire covers general characteristics of each historical era; trends and styles unique to various countries; biographical sketches of over 500 composers; and performance annotations of more than 5,000 individual works. This book will be an essential guide to programming, a reference tool for program notes and other research, and, most importantly, a key resource for conductors, instructors, scholars, and students of choral music.