This helpful resource includes 15 songs with specific classroom lesson plans for 3-4 class lessons. Each lesson has its own video by the author, aimed at the teacher, not the students. You get a total of 47 videos –– over six hours of video content. The audio tracks are demonstrations of the songs. It also includes 13 classroom handout PDFs, accessible online through My Library. Perfect for elementary general music classroom teachers and substitute teachers!
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What choral conductor or soloist has not looked around for new ideas for warming up the voice? Here are over 39 creative exercises which do more than just warm up the voice: they help to relax the body, train the ear and develop an awareness of dynamics and rhythm. Two top authors, Deke Sharon and J.D. Frizzell, have provided a wide array of warm ups specifically designed for pop and jazz choirs but these warm ups will work well for contemporary a cappella groups of all sizes and styles. Every vocal ensemble has its strengths and weaknesses which vary from year to year. The warmups within can to help polish your weak spots and hone your strengths. Regardless of your groups strengths, this book is can help you address the full range of skills required for great musicmaking. Topics include: Rhythm, Syllables, Tone, Intervals, Dynamics, Intonation, Blend, Balance, Pitch, Improvisation, Solo Techniques, and Vocal Percussion.
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Unchanged, changing, or changed tenor/bass singers in middle school and high school may need a little extra help in “finding” their singing voices. Roger Emerson has developed a series of warm-ups that uses excerpts from classic rock and roll tunes that will provide the motivation and repetition they need to do just that. Each song features limited ranges, starting moderately and gradually ascending into the tenor range and descending through the bass range as needed. The professionally-produced audio tracks present each exercise with vocals so your Tenors and Basses have a model to emulate.
Exercies are based on the following songs: Addams Family Theme • Theme from “Jaws” • Jump, Jive An' Wail • Land of a Thousand Dances • Mission: Impossible Theme • Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye • Shake, Rattle and Roll • Smoke on the Water • We Will Rock You.
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A cappella teacher/performer/producer Rob Dietz expertly describes the nuts, bolts and artistry of creating contemporary a cappella music. Rob is the perfect person to write this text, produce the sample tracks available on line and draw from his vast community of a cappella experts for advice and experiences. Whether you are an a cappella newbie or seasoned expert, this resource is for you!
“The perfect – dare I say pitch perfect – book for anyone looking to start an a cappella group or program!” –Deke Sharon, Arranger/Producer: The Sing-Off, Pitch Perfect
Includes digital access for audio. The tracks, expertly produced by the author, are examples of concepts presented in the book including warm-ups, bass vocal techniques, and arranging ideas.
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Choral Cantabile is a manual that transforms a choir's warm-up time into meaningful voice-building. Dr. Katharin Rundus is a renowned singer, voice instructor and choral conductor who has authored three vocal pedagogy textbooks. The first, Cantabile (P5023), is a comprehensive college level text now used the world over. Cantabile: Voice Class (P5026), is single semester text with equal acclaim. Choral Cantabile is the final book in the series and is specifically for the choral conductor. Organized in the same unique, easy-read format, with clarifying icons and duplicatable exercises, this will be a required resource in the classroom and an aid for choral conductors everywhere.
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Improve tone production, artistic sensibilities, and musical understanding. Offers specific exercises for posture, breathing, voice building, and use of voice training in rehearsal.
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Linking the visual, the aural, and the kinetic to promote artistic choral singing, this unique instructional video demonstrates the development of non-verbal vocabulary that increases efficiency in choral rehearsals. This video includes dozens of unrehearsed demonstrations.
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This is a book for choral directors who find themselves in conversations they might not feel ready to have.
Teaching with Respect prompts us to ask deeper questions about the language we use, about systems of power, about our heritage and inheritance. When we examine our teaching, we may find that, while we do not intentionally act with racism, sexism, or bigotry, we may be complicit in adopting systems and language that marginalize and discriminate. But since we want to be the kind of directors that foster artistic communities built on respect, we must be willing to ask such questions. And the burden cannot be on our singers who are being marginalized to teach us a more respectful path; it is on us to learn how it is that we are marginalizing.
In this book we look closely at our teaching strategies. How does our repertoire and instruction intersect with our singers' identities, specifically their learning abilities, gender, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, and race? How do we engage with our audience? The book suggests an ethical approach to teaching choral music that is centered on respecting the singers in front of us. Readers will discover ways to maintain and elevate their artistic standards of excellence while also expanding their mindset.
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This is a collection of hymn tunes and texts with notes on their origin, idiom, and performance; and suggestions for their use in the service. It is Alice Parker at her best, providing some musical ideas for the improvisation of hymn-anthems by choirs and congregations. Included are chapters on chants and processionals, Psalter hymns, chorales, classic hymns, folk hymns, and spirituals.
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Alfred Mann's scholarship – its breadth and richness of detail – is matched by his passion for live music. This book is an invaluable guide for those who are seriously committed to bringing the noblest of yesterday's music to today's audiences.
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This spiral bound manual is designed to introduce the art of singing including theory and exercises related to posture, breath, vocal cord maintenance, resonance, vocal register, and pronunciation. It was written for use in the classroom but can be adapted to private voice lessons.
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870 Direct Modulations is designed to be a phenomenal resource for: organists and/or pianists – an easy way to execute a transition from any chord to the opening measure of a hymn or anthem or any other service material. For composers and arrangers, this is a handy manual, an instant guide for a solution to some musical problem in a original composition or in an arrangement. For theory instructors, it's a practical method for teaching keyboard harmony and analysis. Section I: Major to Major; Section II: Major to Minor; Section III: Minor to Major; Section IV: Minor to Minor
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Contents: A Round of Greeting • Sharing It With Me • Here's to America • Try Again • Keeping Christmas • A Valentine Wish • The Winter's a Drag Rag • You Never Stop Learning • One Day At a Time • Let's Make Music • Two Roads • We're On Our Way.
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This musical drama focuses on each of the six seasons as they are traditionally observed in the church calendar: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost. Attempt is made to capture the essence of each season through words, music, action, and visual impressions.
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Twenty Lessons in Harmony by Olivier Messiaen is a book in which the author describes his perceptions of colours in music and the importance of the fusion of sound and sight. Often depicting chords as precise colours and shades, he explains how he perceived harmony through a visual prism. This description is completed by these twenty lessons for SATB to help controlling the harmonies. Twenty Lessons in Harmony has shown itself very helpful for a better understanding and interpretation of Messiaen's music. Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was a French organist and composer passionate about ornithology and one of the most important composers of his century. Inspired by Japanese music, he had a very special way of composing and his work can be identified by its complexity, its diatonic aspect, its harmony with limited transposition, its colour and its additive rhythms. He composed many works related to ornithology and birdsong, including the Bird Catalogue in 7 volumes and the Treatise on Rhythm, Colour and Ornithology in 7 volumes. MORE»
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