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Sound Advice: Becoming A Better Children's Choir Conductor
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▼▲Jean Ashworth Bartle is the founding director of the Toronto Children's Chorus (1978), a premier children's ensemble that has set the international standard for children's choirs. Draw from her 30 years of expertise working with children ages 6 - 17 to develop your children's choir to its best potential. Learn solid and reliable techniques from one who set the standard for children' and youth choirs.
Early chapters address teaching children to sing, including teaching style and delivery, lesson content, and common problems found in children's singing. Following chapters cover a checklist for ideal rehearsals and performance preparation, developing music reading literacy, discipline, organization, auditions, conducting an orchestra, touring and recording. Helpful appendices are also included.
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▼▲Title: Sound Advice: Becoming A Better Children's Choir Conductor By: Jean Bartle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Vendor: Oxford University Press Publication Date: 2012 | Dimensions: 9.21 X 6.14 (inches) Weight: 15 ounces ISBN: 0199922705 ISBN-13: 9780199922703 Stock No: WW922703 |
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▼▲This book will be useful on many levels: for the college student studying the child voice and elementary teaching methods; for the teacher beginning to direct choirs in schools, synagogues, churches and communities; for experienced children's choir directors who wish to know more about orchestral repertoire for treble voices, conducting an orchestra, and preparing a children's choir to sing a major work with a professional orchestra. The underlying educational philosophy is sound; the author sees development of musicianship through singing as the primary goal of a children's choir program. This philosophy differs dramatically from the traditional concept of the conductor as all-knowing and the singers as receptacles. An outstanding aspect of the book is how the author leads the reader to an understanding of how to teach musicianship. Developing literacy in the choral setting is a mysterious, amorphous process to many conductors, but the author clearly outlines this important process with practical suggestions, well-documented examples, and a clear reading style which will reach readers on many levels. The comprehensive repertoire, skill-building sheets, and programs for all types of children's choirs will provide teachers with immediate and highly valuable resources.
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