Choral/Vocal
NEW! Choral Conducting/Teaching
Sandra Snow
On this extraordinary DVD, master conductor Sandra Snow outlines a new paradigm for choral teaching and rehearsing within performance - based classes.
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NEW! Evoking Sound
(Second Edition with DVD)
James Jordan
Now significantly revised and expanded, James Jordan's groundbreaking book incorporates more than ten years of new conducting insights, pedagogy, and philosophy to create a resource that is not only informative but transformative.
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Developing Music through Improvisation (Vocal)
Just as it is possible for everyone to engage in meaningful conversation, it is also possible for everyone to engage in meaningful improvisation.
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Musicks Empire (GIA ChoralWorks)
Jerry McCoy
The selections on Musicks Empire speak for themselves, an engaging mixture of contemporary writing as well as timeless classics.
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The Singer's Ego - Finding Balance Between Music and Life
Lynn Eustis
The Singer's Ego is a groundbreaking book that explores the serious issues singers face, issues with profound implications for both singers and their teachers.
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Evoking Sound: The Choral Rehearsal, Volumes 1
James Jordan
This comprehensive and engaging sourcebook is an essential guide to a productive and musical choral rehearsal written by a leading voice in choral pedagogy.
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Composers on Composing for Choir
Conductors, performers, and composers will find valuable reference materials for their development and a treasure trove of inspiration to carry over into any choral endeavor.
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Finding Middle Ground: Music for Young Tenors and Baritones
Lynn Eustis
This volume and its companion for young tenors and baritones is designed to offer guidance to voice teachers in dealing with hard-to-categorize students.
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The
Choral Conductor's Aural Tutor
With time, attentive listening, and practice, you can take your conducting to the next level!
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Ear Training Immersion Exercises
for Choirs
Choral exercises in all the modes. Textbook, video, and exercise octavos.
Creating
the Special World
Weston H. Noble
A
collection of lectures that captures the teachings of one of the foremost
leaders in choral music.
NEW! The Choral Challenge
Michael Kemp
The Choral Challenge is a book of solutions. Michael Kemp brings a lifetime of experience living and working in the choral world to create a truly remarkable and practical book.
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Weston H. Noble
For the first time, Weston Noble's lecture and demonstration on matching voices for a seamless choral sound is available. By using the principles presented, not only will the sound of the choirs improve, but conductors will realize an immediate enhancement in intonation and rhythmic clarity in their ensembles. Learn More
NEW! Conducting Women's Choirs
Debra Spurgeon
Conducting Women's Choirs: Strategies for Success is a pioneering yet practical book and DVD devoted to all aspects of the women's choir
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NEW! Choral Vocal Technique
Sabine Horstmann
Written in a straightforward and direct manner, this volume provides an overview of choral vocal technique for choirs at any level of development.
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Teaching Music through Performance
in Choir Vol. 1
This book is an ideal tool for anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of the preeminent music composed for choir and who wishes to learn from some of the seminal voices in the choral profession.
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Innisfree (GIA ChoralWorks)
James Jordan
The first inspiring release in the GIA Choral Works series. Each piece on this recording possesses this magical quality to teach us how to live.
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The Long and Short of Music -
Book and CD.
Daniel Meyer
An innovative and delightful way to introduce musical terms and concepts to children! The Long and Short of Music is 28 chapters of informative fun!
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Evoking Sound: The Choral Rehearsal, Volumes 2
James Jordan
For the first time in a single volume, this book provides choral directors with a comprehensive guide to score analysis techniques used by the world's leading choral conductors and innovators.
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Hand-Me-Down Songs
Alice Parker
Representing the best of our American heritage, this collection of uplifting, meditative, and feetstomping folk songs is a gift children of all ages will never forget—the melodies are so strong they are sure to last a lifetime!
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Alice Parker's Hand-Me-Down Songs
Alice Parker
These folksongs, handpicked by renowned conductor and composer Alice Parker, are tunes every child should know because they create a solid foundation for future music learning.
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Finding Middle Ground: Music for Young Sopranos and Mezzo-Sopranos
Lynn Eustis
This volume provides ten worthy selections appropriate for young sopranos and mezzo-sopranos that fall between these voice types, which are perfect for helping to discover a singer's eventual vocal classification.
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Evoking Sound: Choral Series
New Titles Available
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Evoking
Sound: The Choral Series Warm-Up James Jordan
Methods, procedures, planning, and core vocal exercises
Inscape: Choral Music of Gerald Custer (GIA ChoralWorks)
Gerald Custer
The newest release in the GIA ChoralWorks series featuring the voices of Anam Cara with James Jordan conducting.
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Choral Reading Program
Richard F. Grunow and Milford Fargo
GIA's score reading program teaches the vital skills of conducting: the ability to analyze scores and then detect errors in performance. Ideal for undergraduate and graduate students, and even experienced conductors, this is a challenging, sequential program that really teaches. Learn More
Poly-Phonics
Joseph Reiser
Great for warm-ups these are 21 pieces your choir will never forget, 12 accompanied in both popular and classical styles. Your choir never had so much fun being so musical!
The Choral Warm-Up: Modal Exercises
Roger Ames
Choir directors will find these exercises to be a key component in their quest to improve the musicianship and vocalism of their singers.
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Teaching Music through Performance
in Choir Vol. 2
Teaching Music through Performance in Choir, Volume 2 aids conductors and educators on the quest toward full musical awareness.
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Movable Tonic: A Sequenced Sight-Singing Method
Alan McClung
Movable Tonic is a comprehensive sight-singing resource, perfect for daily practice or an entire curriculum.
Because this resource includes each of the important pedagogical steps needed to teach sight-singing effectively, your students can become independent music readers.
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The
School Choral Program
Tim Lautzenheiser / James Jordan
This new, definitive choral methods text is perfect for future practitioners and an invaluable reference for any choral conductor.
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The
School Choral Program:
Student Motivation DVD
Tim Lautzenheiser / James Jordan
In this brilliant DVD, master clinician Tim Lautzenheiser speaks to the students of the Central Bucks West High School choir and band about how to bring leadership thinking into their everyday lives and music making.
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Listen!
Introductory Harmonic Immersion Solfege with Interactive Listening
CD
Teacher
and Student Books cover tonic, dominant, and subdominant in major keys.
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The Choral Singer's Survival Guide
Tony Thorton
Practical instruction and tips to hone your skills and improve your vocal musicianship.
The Anatomy of Melody
Alice Parker
Dialogues, Volume 1: Morten Lauridsen, Paul Salamunovich, and James Jordan
Morten Lauridsen / James Jordan
Recorded in 2008 over a two-day period at the Hollywood Hills home of the composer, these colleagues and friends participated in a discussion to help conductors and choirs understand the music of Morten Lauridsen.
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Dialogues, Volume 2
Weston Noble, Charles Bruffy, James Jordan
Weston Noble / James Jordan
Listen in on a conversation as one of America's great choral conductors, Weston Noble, shares his ideas and beliefs with other notable choral conductors Charles Bruffy and James Jordan. Learn More
Evoking
Sound DVD – Body Mapping Principles and Basic Conducting Techniques
James Jordan and Heather Buchanan
Taking James Jordan's choral conducting book Evoking Sound to the next level, this DVD is a self-tutorial that demonstrates and enhances the basic conducting principles discussed in the book.
Voice for Life: Choral Training from the Royal School of Church Music
James Jordan and Heather Buchanan
Designed for use in schools, in churches, and with other community choirs, Voice for Life offers four levels of vocal training for beginning through advanced singers.