This handy one-volume book with CD is designed to help the beginning singer cultivate sight-reading skills with materials for individual study. The CD comes with MP3 files for student-friendly practice on the computer or MP3 player.

John Leavitt has selected and edited 31 Bach chorales for choirs to sight-read and perform. Each chorale includes English and German texts along with pedagogical suggestions to help your singers build skills and develop musical literacy. It's a great tool for school, church and community groups!

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Have fun with your choral warm-ups! With this collection of fifty-four inventive and educational songs and exercises, your choir will beg for more. Start out with the unison pieces and "build" to the more challenging exercises for 2-part, 3-part or 4-part treble or mixed voices.

It is never too early to begin teaching proper vocal technique to young singers. Here are 18 fun and original exercises that will get the voices of your young students on the right track to producing a quality sound. Posture, breathing, flexibility, range of voice and more are all addressed in the exercises. Sing along with the demonstration tracks on the enclosed CD for quick learning, or use the accompaniment-only tracks for ear training and assessment options. Get ready to workout to a better sounding choir! Warm-ups include: Articulate!; At the Market; Diction Warm-up; The Giant and the Flea; Interval Training; Phineas the Frog; Tune Your Voices,and more!

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Here is an exciting sight-singing method for middle school and junior high choirs! This method begins at square one, assuming no previous training. With logical organization and sequencing, it moves quickly, is easy to use, and will give you quick results. Harmonically combinable exercises develop rhythmic and melodic independence, and the three-part mixed songs may be sung a cappella or accompanied. Volume One stresses rhythmic concepts; Volume Two harmonic and melodic concepts.

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This handy octavo-size book will help you to build sight-singing skills in all of your choral ensembles. Featuring a step-by-step approach, unison and combinable exercises, and motivating short songs, these editions provide a basis for developing music literacy within the choral rehearsal, allowing your singers to develop their full individual potential. Also available is an accompaniment CD that provides light accompaniment (without singing) for the combinable pitch builders, speech choruses and songs. The process of converting symbol to sound and sound to symbol is at the heart of becoming musically literate, and this book is the best way to achieve that goal!

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This second volume will help you continue to build skills in your choral ensembles with a handy octavo-sized book. This step-by-step approach uses unison and combinable exercises along with motivating songs to provide a basis for developing music literacy within the choral rehearsal. The CDs provide light accompaniment for the combinable pitch builders, speech choruses and songs. In keeping with the spirit of sight-reading, there is no singing on the CDs.

Here's a great set of warm-ups for the vocal jazz ensemble that's designed to enhance and stimulate the growth of each member's vocal and choral ability. Thinking of the warm-up as a "mini voice lesson," you can reinforce concepts with consistent encouragement, criticism, problem-solving and praise. This practical volume will help the conductor provide purposeful leadership and develop artistry in each individual through exercises that build styles such as Swing, Latin and Rock, using solfege and scat syllables as well as tone and blend in ballad style. Each exercise includes a notated keyboard accompaniment, with multiple modulations, and a professional recording of singers with a rhythm section.

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An incredibly popular sight-singing method, this is based on the solfege system (with optional numbers) and gives you a step-by step plan for teaching your choir the fundamentals of sight-singing. By spending just 10 minutes a day on sight-singing, you will dramatically improve your choir's music skills in just a matter of weeks! The materials in Volume 1 include 334 diatonic exercises and a glossary of music terms, with an excellent instructional text in the Teacher's Edition. Volume 2 is a logical continuation of this method, or is for groups that are already proficient in solfege. It includes 244 exercises with an easy-to-understand approach to chromatics, and also covers such topics as more advanced divisions and sub-divisions of the beat, minor tonalities and more. An added feature of this method is an excellent supplement, the "Jenson Sight-Singing Part Exercises," which is a collection of 82 exercises for use with this or any other sight-singing program. Including rounds, 2, 3 and 4-part exercises, graded original material and excerpts from the choral repertoire, this is an excellent bridge between singing just "exercises" and true choral literature! This is exceptionally popular with your colleagues, so you owe it to yourself to examine this very carefully!

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Two of America's most respected choral educators have combined their years of experience to design a powerful, effective sight-reading method for treble voices in elementary and early middle school. The concepts of rhythm and pitch are introduced separately at the beginning, but always within the context of measures so that exercises are musically interesting. Exercises that illustrate and reinforce each concept are combinable, so harmonic interest is introduced at an early stage, building rhythmic independence and better intonation. The result...painless part singing. One of the most important features of this method is the inclusion of actual songs, arranged with accompaniments, words and dynamics. The logical sequencing and careful reinforcement of musical concepts lead naturally to a broad musical understanding. Student confidence levels stay high because they really understand what they are doing.