Download or read book A Novice s Guide to Directing the Church Choir written by Kenneth T. Kosche and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource is designed to help those in the parish who direct church choirs but have no formal training directing.
Download or read book Growing Your Choral Program written by Nicolás Alberto Dosman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing Your Choral Program: A Practical Guide for New Directors is a practical guide for early career choral directors and music educators in search of tangible and simple solutions to problems typical of developing choirs—including church choirs, community choirs, school choirs, and children’s choirs. Nicolás Alberto Dosman tackles various scenarios and real-world issues, both musical and non-musical, that often go unaddressed in choral education programs. Some topics include: Choral philosophies and approaches Programming Logistical concerns Simple strategies for notational literacy and vocal technique Diverse repertoire selections Choral program management Leadership skills Lesson and rehearsal planning Whether you are a new choral director at a school, church, or community choir, this book will help you navigate challenging moments that are common for developing choirs.
Download or read book A Manual for the Church Choir Directors of Fundamental Protestant Churches in America written by Wanda Lee Heatwole and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Church Choir Director s Guide to Success written by James McCray and published by Santa Barbara Music Pub. This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rehearsal Guide for the Choral Director written by Jack Boyd and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wednesday Workout written by Richard Devinney and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By the Way- You Start Tomorrow Night". The recruiting of a less-than-fully-trained person is usually done at the last minute, since the search for a fully trained person will continue as long as there is either time or hope. Our last-minute, inexperienced director, then will be starting immediately. This first chapter is the most light-hearted, the most general, and the most basic of the book. It is pep talk and a look at the thing to do the first night for the first Sunday. The remainder of the book covers the other ongoing aspects of planning and directing effective choral rehearsals. * Easy-to-use practical format and style * Light, anecdotal reading * Covers all elements of rehearsal planning and techniques * Provides directors handles on how to use rehearsal time * Helps directors learn to better plan and work ahead * Gives directors more confidence in this area of leadership Market * Church choir directors * Music directors
Download or read book A Guide for the Director of Catholic Church Choirs written by Cecelia Eifert Jamison and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transforming Choral Singing written by Charles W. Beale and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choral conductors and clinicians often focus on honing the technical and artistic elements of their choir's performance, but what is the true purpose of choral singing? Choral performances sound beautiful, but they also tell stories, "say something" to someone, and create change in them. In that fundamental sense, they are always activist. In Transforming Choral Singing: An Activist's Guide for Choir Directors, author Charles W. Beale draws from his nearly 20 years of leading major choirs in the LGBTQIA+ choral movement internationally as well as his long experience as a singer, organist, conductor, and educator to put forth a new vision for choral singing: to move audiences and change the world. Four main principles underpin this vision: connection, impact, social justice, and stylistic openness. Beale lays down a non-canonical and inclusive framework, grounded in critical musicology and pedagogy, for mission-driven and activist-oriented engagement with the choral arts, and provides practical takeaways for choral practitioners and conductors through a lively mix of practical, rigorous, and fun workshops, tips, and suggestions. Starting from the premise that all styles deserve equal space, the nine chapters cover the core aspects of choral directing, including mission, vocal sound, rhythm and groove, improvising, programming, conducting, and leading a choral community, teaching and learning, and the daily practice of equity and inclusion. The book closes with a series of calls to action and lays out a potentially transformative activist vision for the whole field, which foregrounds participation and engagement, and conceives of all choral singing as a powerful catalyst for musical and social change. The result is a provocative and contemporary approach to building choral communities with profound implications for why we sing, what we sing, how we sing, and how we conduct, teach, rehearse, and lead a choral community.
Download or read book Camerata written by Arthur Wenk and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camerata: A Guide to Organizing and Directing Small Choruses distinguishes itself from all other works on choral conducting by starting at the very beginning—the conception and purpose of an ensemble—and continuing through all other aspects of rehearsing and organizing a chorus to performance and reception. Wenk offers basic information on getting started, recruiting singers, planning programs, rehearsing music, publicizing concerts, sharing responsibilities, financing the operation, knowing the law, and finally getting better. He also offers detailed suggestions for creating an executive group to manage the choir as well ideas for repertoire and programming. In addition to a step-by-step guide, Camerata provides a wealth of supplementary material including a prospectus, a statement of goals and means, programs, organizational documents, a singer’s guide, documents for organizing a folksong competition, a list of websites for publishers and choral federations, and an annotated bibliography of works on choral conducting. Wenk also includes more than twenty original Christmas carols and carol arrangements for performance by your small chorus. This work will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in starting a new choral organization or improving an existing ensemble. Although the book focuses on chamber choirs, Wenk’s practical suggestions, based on more than forty years of experience as a choral conductor, can be easily applied to any choral organization.
Download or read book Composers in the Classroom written by James Michael Floyd and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composers in the Classroom is a bio-bibliographical dictionary, chronicling the careers and work of over 120 composers associated with conservatories, colleges, and universities in the United States and Puerto Rico. Scholars and students of music seeking critical information about composers who have taken on the mantle of instruction will find a wealth of detail on their subjects. Painstakingly obtained through direct correspondence with the composers themselves, Floyd includes within each entry a short biography of the composer's life and education, lists of previous positions, most prominent commissions, awards and honors, and notable performers of the subject's work. Each entry also contains a discography of the recordings and a bibliography of writings by the composer. Researchers will find especially useful the organization of each subject's compositions by a variety of types. These include vocal, choral/assembly, dramatic, keyboard, solo instrument, handbells, chamber music, jazz ensemble, band and wind ensemble, band and wind ensemble with solo instruments, orchestra, orchestra with solo instruments, film/television/commercial, electro-acoustic and multimedia, arrangements, transcriptions, and editions and reconstructions. Music scholars will find under each work not only the title and date of composition but also the date of revision, commission, and dedication information, as well as other pertinent details ranging from the names of collaborators to alternate titles under which works may circulate. Composers in the Classroom is an indispensable tool to scholars of modern music seeking to research the current state of musical composition and the compositional trends of the 21st century.
Download or read book The Reluctant Soloist written by Debra R. Tyree and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth book in Abingdon's series of how-to books for church musicians desiring further training, The Reluctant Soliost views solo singing both form a technical and a worship/ ministry standpoint. This book addresses such needs as: * "I have some voices in the choir that with polish could make fine soloists, but I don't know exactly how to apply the polish" * "I know just enough about voice pedagogy to be dangerous and would like help on the technical aspects to help the whole choir" * I would like a thoughtful presentation of why solos are a part of worship" * "How do I help select repertoire for the eager ( but untrained and inexperienced) soloists in my church?" Developed with the church choir director in mind, The Reluctant Soloist is an easy-to-understand treatment of issues faced by most local church musicians. Topics covered are: A Philosophy of Church Solos; Basic Vocal Techniques; Choosing Repertoire for the Inexperienced Soloist, Creating Your Own Solos/Repertoire/Using the Hymnal/Octavos/Keyboard Literature; Not Everyone Is Ready for the Big Time!; Preach It--Telling the Story; and Ministry Matters. * Written by an experienced authority in the field * Helpful for directors with no formal voice training * Helps develop soloists for the church music ministry * Discusses the ministry aspects of solo singing
Download or read book The Choral Director s Cookbook written by and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Meredith Music Resource). This valuable collection of quick-to-read yet deeply insightful strategies is like finding expert trade secrets from around the world all placed in one easy source. With outstanding records of performance, workshop clinics, recordings, research, composition, leadership, and teaching, the 57 authors provide their favorite "recipes" that range from overviews of successful programs to specific topics that will inspire all levels and types of choirs.
Download or read book Choral Director s Rehearsal and Performance Guide written by Lewis Gordon and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1989 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical strategies & expert guidance on leading a first-rate choral ensemble, with tips & techniques for successful auditions, schedules, rehearsals, concerts, budgets, fund-raising, publicity, & more.
Download or read book The Voice for Life Guide to Choir Training written by Anthony Marks and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its launch in 1999, Voice for Life has become established in countless choirs around the world. The Workbooks were first published in 2004. Since publication we have listened to singers and choir trainers who have used the scheme, have revised the materials, making it easier and more enjoyable to use.The Voice for Life guide to Choir Training provides both a comprehensive guide to directing a choir and also running a choir, including recruitment, safeguarding, how to deal with changing and aging voices, conducting and choir training. Written with choir trainers and directors in mind, it contains everything necessary to help singers get the most out of their Voice for Life choral experience.The Voice for Life guide to Choir Training supports all aspects of the scheme and its resources. Together with its companion volumes, The Voice for Life Guide to Musicianship, and How to use Voice for Life, it provides both a complete guide to running a choir, and a generous source of technical and practical advice for anyone standing in front of a choir, helping choral musicians to reach their full potential.
Download or read book Skill Building Sequence for Choral Ensembles written by Jennifer Miceli and published by UPA. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to bring meaning to music notation without the assistance of an accompanist playing choral parts is a requisite skill on a musician’s journey to self-reliance and full artistic expression. Despite its importance, high performance expectations pose a challenge for choir directors to allocate discrete rehearsal time to music reading skill development. Consider for a moment an embedded music reading system that facilitates choristers’ ability to read their choral octavos; a process that develops rhythm and tonal musicianship and gives choristers the tools they need to learn music on their own. This bookintroduces an adaptable, literature-based choral music reading approach that empowers young singers with music literacy skills that point beyond the choral rehearsal and encourage independent and group music making for a lifetime.
Download or read book Fire for the Choir written by Ellis D. Thompson and published by CSS Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there are plenty of books about the musical techniques of choir directing, there are precious few that deal with the organizational nuts-and-bolts and the people skills required for a smoothly functioning music program. Ellis Dillard Thompson, a veteran choir director and music educator, shares his tried and proven methods for getting choir members excited. He focuses on the role of a church musician as a spiritual leader, and stresses that a truly successful music program is based on spiritual values that uplift, inspire, and motivate participants. This outstanding guide is designed for anyone participating in music ministry: choir directors, choir members, organists, pastors, music committee members, and worship committee members.
Download or read book Pocket Guide for the Church Choir Member written by Kenneth W. Osbeck and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
