Conducting Choral Music

Features + Benefits

• Provides clear, concise, and accurate information on the development of conducting skills, devoting a full chapter to each of the following topics:

  • Improving choral tone and diction. Pg.___

  • Maintaining vocal health. Pg.___

  • Children's voices and the boy's changing voice. Pg.___

  • Understanding of diverse musical styles from various historical periods. Pg.___

  • Choir rehearsal techniques. Pg.___

  • Planning effective programs and concerts. Pg.___

  • Administrative matters of planning and management. Pg.___

• Numerous musical examples throughout the book.

• Specific exercises for developing choral tone and improving diction. Pg.___

• Schools of choral singing. Pg.___

• Using a theme in building concert programs. Pg.___

• A chronology of choral composers listed by date and place of birth from the Renaissance to the present. Pg.___

• For directors seeking new choral literature for their groups, the Appendix includes an extensive listing of choral music, graded by level of difficulty for SATB, SAB, SACB, SA or TB, SSA, and TTBB. Pg.___

• New-Uses and application of Supermetric conducting patterns to make certain conducting gestures more meaningful and understood by singers (Chapter 1). Pg.___

• New-The section on Conducting choral/orchestral works was revised and expanded (Chapter 6). Pg.___

• New-Ethnic and Multicultural Perspectives and extensive lists of selected choral music representing the following world areas: Africa, Asia and the Pacific, the British Isles, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, North America, and Western Europe (Chapter 7 and the Appendix).

• New-Suggestions for planning Holiday programs - consider the sensibilities of persons with diverse religious beliefs (Chapter 8). Pg.___

  • New listings in the Appendix of suggested Holiday music that includes Christmas secular music, and music for Hanukkah. Pg.___

• New-The choir/chorus retreat as a means of focusing upon the choir's objectives at the beginning of the school year (Chapter 8). Pg.___

• New-Responsibilities of the Choir Member-a Self Assessment. An important means for students to assess their overall contribution to a choir with the objective of future improvement (Chapter 8). Pg.___

• New-Suggestions for adjudicators of choral music competition/festivals (Chapter 8). Pg.___