A Handbook for Beginning Choral Educators

A Handbook for Beginning Choral Educators
Author: Walter Lamble
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2004-06-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780253216984

Walter Lamble offers guidance and expert advice to beginning choral educators. He covers many areas which are widely discussed among experienced professionals, but are not covered in a music education class.

Handbook for the Beginning Music Teacher

Handbook for the Beginning Music Teacher
Author: Colleen Marie Conway
Publisher: GIA Publications
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2006
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781579995256

This practical and essential resource guides preservice and beginning music teachers through the most difficult years of music teaching. Part One assists undergraduate music education students in navigating early observations; Part Two offers advice for music student teachers; and Part Three is an invaluable reference for the beginning music teacher. Nineteen real-life stories are interspersed throughout Handbook for the Beginning Music Teacher, and most include questions for discussion developed by the story authors. -- Publisher

The Choral Director's Guide to Sanity ... and Success!

The Choral Director's Guide to Sanity ... and Success!
Author: Randy Pagel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780893281724

When two master teachers speak, students--and teachers--should listen. And Randy Pagel and Linda Spevacek have spoken eloquently here, befitting their combined years of incredibly successful teaching experience. Succinctly written and fully-charged with practical, step-by-step instructions, you will find nugget after nugget concerning issues confronting every choral educator every day. Wisdom on classroom management, choral rehearsal management, working with the changing male voice, developing musicianship and a complete child, organizational tips, public-relations hints, pointers for participating in tours and/or festivals, and thought-provoking quotes from a wide spectrum of sources--it's all here, written from the unique perspective of both a male and female teacher who explore how gender really affects teaching the opposite sex. Tools, rules and tips for teaching--all leading toward making your classroom a positive atmosphere, ensuring a successful choral experience for every student.

Things They Never Taught You in Choral Methods

Things They Never Taught You in Choral Methods
Author: Nancy Smirl Jorgensen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1995
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Hours of college methods can only begin to prepare you for the realities of the music classroom. Only experience will teach you some of the material never mentioned in methods classes, and this handbook will be an enormous practical guide to help you with

The Oxford Handbook of Choral Pedagogy

The Oxford Handbook of Choral Pedagogy
Author: Frank Abrahams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2017
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199373361

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 and practice. Where, in the digitizing world, is the field of choral pedagogy moving? Editor Frank Abrahams and Paul D. Head, both experienced choral conductors and teachers, offer here a comprehensive handbook of newly-commissioned chapters that provide key scholarly-critical perspectives on teaching and learning in the field of choral music, written by academic scholars and researchers in tandem with active choral conductors. As chapters in this book demonstrate, choral pedagogy encompasses everything from conductors' gestures to the administrative management of the choir. The contributors to The Oxford Handbook of Choral Pedagogy address the full range of issues in contemporary choral pedagogy, from repertoire to voice science to the social and political aspects of choral singing. They also cover the construction of a choral singer's personal identity, the gendering of choral ensembles, social justice in choral education, and the role of the choral art in society more generally. Included scholarship focuses on both the United States and international perspectives in five sections that address traditional paradigms of the field and challenges to them; critical case studies on teaching and conducting specific populations (such as international, school, or barbershop choirs); the pedagogical functions of repertoire; teaching as a way to construct identity; and new scholarly methodologies in pedagogy and the voice.

Choral Conducting

Choral Conducting
Author: Colin Durrant
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1136071385

Choral Conducting is a resource for singers, teachers, and choral conductors, and a college-level text for students of choral conducting. It also includes an overview of what is involved in leading a choral group and examines theories of learning and human behaviour and the history of choral music together with conductor's role. The book also discusses issues of the conductor-vocalist relationship, the mechanics of singing, rehearsal strategies, and more.

Choral Music

Choral Music
Author: James Michael Floyd
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2012-07-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135848203

This is an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites on choral music. This book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared since publication of the previous edition.

Choral Music

Choral Music
Author: Avery T. Sharp
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2011
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0415994195

This is an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites on choral music. This book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared since publication of the previous edition.

The Confident Choir

The Confident Choir
Author: Michael Bonshor
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2017-12-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1538102803

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 as a singing teacher and choral director with a series of in-depth interviews that give an intimate depiction of the challenges faced by the contemporary choral singer. These insights provide the basis for a range of suggested techniques to bolster confidence and reduce anxiety in the group-singing context. This book is primarily designed as a guide for leaders of amateur group singing activities and is relevant to choirs of all sizes and genres. The content will appeal to singers, teachers, and choir leaders; students and scholars in the fields of choral research, community music, music psychology, and adult education; and educators training the musical leaders of the future.

Pictures of Music Education

Pictures of Music Education
Author: Estelle R. Jorgensen
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2011-05-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0253222982

Estelle R. Jorgensen's latest work is an exploratory look into the ways we practice and represent music education through the metaphors and models that appear in everyday life. These metaphors and models serve as entry points into a deeper understanding of music education that moves beyond literal ways of thinking and doing and allows for a more creative embodiment of musical thought. Seeing the reader as a partner in the creation of meaning, Jorgensen intends for this book to be experienced by, rather than dictated to, the reader. Jorgensen's hope is that the intersections of art and philosophy, and metaphor and model can provide a richer and more imaginative view of music education.