Comprehensive Choral Music Education

Features + Benefits

• details how a comprehensive approach to choral music education benefits students and instructors and presents strategies for its implementation.
• includes a lengthy chapter on rehearsal techniques including many practical suggestions on the diagnosis and correction of choral problems.
• contains a chapter on developing conducting technique with a variety of carefully chosen examples drawn from choral literature to illustrate various conducting problems.
• gives a basic outline of choral music history and literature, along with information concerning musical style, and strategies for making choral performances stylistically distinctive.
• takes the view that the development of individual vocal technique in students is an important part of the choral music educator's task.