The Show Choir Handbook

The Show Choir Handbook
Author: Alan L. Alder
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2016-07-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1442242027

With the popularity of television shows such as Glee, American Idol, and The Voice, show choirs have become a vibrant component of college and high school music programs. Music teachers must not only know how to teach choral singing for popular music, but also be versed in show design and production. In The Show Choir Handbook, Alan L. Alder and Thalia M. Mulvihill address both song technique and show presentation, giving show choir directors the full set of tools they need for successful performances. The Show Choir Handbook is a resource for current and future music educators who administer show choirs. With most literature on the topic either out of date or focused on the teaching techniques limited to vocal jazz (drawing on the choral genre’s origins as “swing choirs”), instructors are in dire need of a resource that addresses music produced by publishers and choral arrangers.

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

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 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

Where, in the digitizing world, is the field of choral pedagogy moving? Editors 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.

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.

Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs

Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs
Author: Alice Hammel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2017
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0190665173

Introduction -- The Communication Domain -- The Cognitive Domain -- The Behavioral Domain -- The Emotional Domain -- The Sensory Domain -- The Physical Domain -- Unit Plans – Conclusions

Technology Guide for Music Educators

Technology Guide for Music Educators
Author: Scott David Lipscomb
Publisher: ArtisPro
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

An unbiased and non-brand specific guide to selecting the appropriate music technology products for your music program, based on grade level, budget, and your computers' platform or operating system. In this book, chapters are organized by music technology competencies, and cover from electronic musical instruments, to music notation software.