Music-Genres & Styles-Choral

"Redemption Songs" takes the reader inside the walls of a medium-security prison and offers a glimpse at how music and the arts are offering second chances to the incarcerated. For six years, the author volunteered with the Oakdale Community Choir, a performing chorus composed...

Worship and its music together form one of the strongest sources of Christian nourishment and spiritual formation. This comprehensive and practical volume explores the broad range of music in today's churches from the traditional to the technological. It considers the role of music in...

Author: Gloriae Dei CantoresISBN-10: 1557258023ISBN-13: 9781557258021Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)Language: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2010Format: CD

"In this one-of-a-kind celebration of singing with others, I'd call her pitch nearly perfect."--The Atlantic For Stacy Horn, regardless of what is going on in the world or her life, singing in an amateur choir--the Choral Society of Grace Church in New York--never fails...

Great vocal teachers from the 16th century through the early 19th century discovered through trial and error how to properly develop the singing voice, and the term bel canto came to be applied to both the manner of singing and the vocal music of...

Choral Artistry provides a practical and organic approach to teaching choral singing and sight-reading. The text is grounded in current research from the fields of choral pedagogy, music theory, music perception and cognition. Topics include framing a choral curriculum based on the Kod疝y concept;...

Leonard Bernstein is a household name. Most know him for his classic musical reworking of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as Broadway's West Side Story. But Bernstein accomplished so much more as a composer, and his body of work is both broad and varied. He...

Can you change the world through song? This appealing idea has long been the professed aim of singers who are part of choruses affiliated with the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses (GALA). Theses choruses first emerged in the 1970s, and grew out of...

Prophets prophesied about him. Angels and shepherds rejoiced at his birth. Friends cried for joy at his resurrection. And we still celebrate him today. He is Jesus, the Messiah. Perfect for Advent or Lent, this eight-session LifeGuide(R) Bible Study guide explores some of the...

This resource offers a thorough analysis of the German and English languages and includes oral drills, word lists, tables, charts, musical examples, and tongue twisters. Unique to this publication is the illustration of the rhythmic timing and release of consonants within the International Phonetic...

(Vocal Collection). In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Barber, we are proud to release this major new edition, which includes newly edited and engraved editions of the complete contents of Collected Songs and Ten Early Songs (1994), plus many...

The first performance of George Frideric Handel's Messiah in Dublin in 1742 is now legendary. Gentlemen were asked to leave their swords at home and ladies to come without hoops in their skirts in order to fit more people into the audience. The initial...

This English translation of Chourmouzios Chartophylax's revision of Chrysanthos' Introduction to the New Method of Greek chant notation has been made with the intention of providing students, scholars and musicians access to an easily digestible and widely accessible explanation of the rudimentary signs and...

The Confident Choir is an exploration of conditions affecting the confidence levels in singers of all levels to create an accessible synthesis of the psychological models and offer practical confidence-building strategies for conductors, teachers, community musicians, and workshop leaders. Michael Bonshor combines his experience...

The Men of the Deeps has been engaging with audiences around the world since 1966. Formed with a goal of representing Cape Breton and Nova Scotia at the 1967 World's Fair in Montreal (Expo '67), the Men of the Deeps has lived on as...

A primer of the basic principles required for excellence in Choral Conducting. Author Donald Brinegar along with Primer editor Dr. William Belan and contributors Dr. Christopher Gravis, Dr. Joseph Schubert, and Dr. John St. Marie examine seven (7) principles of learning to be a...

Described as the "life and soul of British contemporary music", Jane Manning is an internationally celebrated English concert and opera soprano. In this new follow-up to her highly regarded New Vocal Repertory, Volumes I and II, she provides a seasoned expert's guidance and insight...

Described as the "life and soul of British contemporary music", Jane Manning is an internationally celebrated English concert and opera soprano. In this new follow-up to her highly regarded New Vocal Repertory, Volumes I and II, she provides a seasoned expert's guidance and insight...

Conducting is an act of internal acceptance. We change what we can with each of our groups, and we accept when we can't.How do we plan a choir rehearsal? How do we keep our singers coming back? Can we create that sense of belonging...

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...

"The fusion of text with music is one of the most powerful methods by which a composer can express emotion to an audience, yet, all too often, the diction of choral groups is lacking to such a degree as to make the text unintelligible."...

Choral-Orchestral Repertoire: A Conductor's Guide, Omnibus Edition offers an expansive compilation of choral-orchestral works from 1600 to the present. Synthesizing Jonathan D. Green's earlier six volumes on this repertoire, this edition updates and adds to the over 750 oratorios, cantatas, choral symphonies, masses, secular...

The ultimate collection of early American choral music, including folk hymns from the 19th century. A two volume work in a sturdy slipcase, American Harmony includes full musical scores and complete verses for 176 pieces of music, 100 illustrations, over 100 pages of biographical...

Precise Guides for Seven Foreign Languages: French German Hebrew Italian Russian Spanish Roman Church LatinAuthor: Richard F. Sheil, Christine Walters McMastersISBN-10: 1936411210ISBN-13: 9781936411214Publisher: YBK PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2012Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.41d

Founded in 1872, the Glee Club is Rutgers University's oldest continuously active student organization, as well as one of the first glee clubs in the United States. For the past 150 years, it has represented the university and presented an image of the Rutgers...

The first thorough examination of the most renowned and influential organist in early twentieth-century Germany and of his complex relationship to his country's tumultuous and shifting sociopolitical landscape. In the course of a multifaceted career, Karl Straube (1873-1950) rose to positions of immense cultural...

As the landscape of choral education changes - disrupted by Glee, YouTube, and increasingly cheap audio production software - teachers of choral conducting need current research in the field that charts scholarly paths through contemporary debates and sets an agenda for new critical thought...

Sacred and Profane consists of eight settings for unaccompanied voices of lyrics from RT Davis' collection of Medieval English lyrics, composed early in 1975 for Peter Pears and the Wilbye Consort of Voices.Author: Benjamin BrittenISBN-10: 0571500862ISBN-13: 9780571500864Publisher: Faber & FaberLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1998Pages: 999Format: PaperbackWeight:...

This book contains 142 melodies organised and proposed according to criteria developed over many years of teaching. They have proven to be reliable music material for a training course where the main objective is singing in tune. Each chapter presents a new system of...

The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams: Autographs, Context, Discourse combines contextual knowledge, a musical commentary, an inventory of the holograph manuscripts, and a critical assessment of the opus to create substantial and meticulous examinations of Ralph Vaughan Williams'' choral-orchestral works.Author: Stephen TownISBN-10: 1793606005ISBN-13:...

Combining Bonshor's experience as a singing teacher and choral director with a series of interviews with choral singers from a wide range of amateur ensembles, The Confident Choir explores the inner workings of choir singing. Readers will glean insight on how to bolster confidence...

Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale settings have been vital to the teaching of music ever since they were composed. His four-voiced harmonisations represent a Baroque composer's approach to melodies that are often centuries older. As musical styles continued to evolve, each succeeding generation of teachers...

Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale settings have been vital to the teaching of music ever since they were composed. His four-voiced harmonisations represent a Baroque composer's approach to melodies that are often centuries older. As musical styles continued to evolve, each succeeding generation of teachers...

Bumblebee Rounds & Warm-ups for Choirs is more than just a wonderful collection of 130 choir exercises including 50 rounds. Michael Griffin, who has taught and consulted throughout the world, shares timeless wisdom to help you get your choir into shape."Will prove useful for...

Gregorian chant belongs to the oldest music being preserved in such scope till present; moreover it is still performed but also is one that mostly influenced the history and presence of music. For the reason it is important for ukulele players to meet this...

French Vocal Literature introduces singers to the history and performance concerns of a vast body of French songs from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on songs for solo voice or small vocal ensemble with piano or organ accompaniment suitable for recital, concert,...

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...

This thoughtful, delicate, dramatic and at times joyful Stabat Mater, is the vocal work that established Haydn throughout Europe as a great composer of religious music.Author: Franz Joseph HaydnISBN-10: 0571505007ISBN-13: 9780571505005Publisher: Faber & FaberLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1998Pages: 999Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.60h x 10.90w x 10.00d

Choral Scores is an anthology of music exemplifying distinctive choral repertoire by the most noteworthy composers throughout the history of Western music. A companion volume to Denis Shrock's Choral Repertoire (Oxford 2009), it presents works of salient importance to the development of choral music...