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!

This addition to the successful Choral Warm-Up series provides one of the most important tools in teaching elements of choral intonation: canons. By singing canons, the ensemble can develop (often for the first time) listening skills that require "listening to someone other than yourself." These modal canons extend the listening even further by adding harmonically supportive and enriching accompaniments. Choir directors seeking to improve the musicianship, vocal skills and intonation of their singers will find these modal canons to be an outstanding addition to their library of warm-ups!

This is an incredible voice training video no choir director should be without! The video demonstrates techniques for voice building such as physical movement and mental imagery with simple yet effective exercises. These points are demonstrated in an actual rehearsal setting. The vocal exercises, and the physical motions that accompany them, free the voice while generating healthy vocal production. The simple, versatile exercises are effective for both men and women. Use these exercises daily and you will be surprised and thrilled with the instant vocal production!

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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.

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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!

If you're looking for sight-reading material for your choral groups, be sure to look at this series. It's been around for years and has been steadily gaining acceptance with directors all over the country. Each easy-to-use book is carefully graduated in difficulty, and the exercises are harmonious, so they're as enjoyable to hear as they are to sing. Your students will learn how to blend and sing in tune as they learn how to read melodically and rhythmically. A solid contribution to choral sight-reading literature!

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This innovative, unique and highly motivational sight-singing course by nationally recognized educator, composer, arranger and clinician Audrey Snyder is a marvelous addition to the instructional literature for middle school/junior high students! Exceptionally easy to use, this is a superb way to obtain phenomenal results in not only a "painless" way, but also in a surprisingly enjoyable way! With a 100-page Teacher's Edition which includes "Key Cards" for visual focus and reinforcement, and a 64-page illustrated Student's Edition, this is an incredible sight-singing course that you will definitely want to make an integral part of your instructional curriculum!

Sight-singing is important in the development of independent musicianship. The music in this collection will aid in the development of this skill but also be interesting enough to motivate the singer and be substantive enough to be useful in a variety of performance applications. Song categories include Patriotic, Christmas, Folk Song, Renaissance and Baroque Part Songs, and Spirituals. All songs will stand alone as a cappella settings. Several songs also have optional piano accompaniments. Sight-reading or analysis tips are included for each selection. Songs include: America, the Beautiful; Da Pacem Domine; Deep River; Down by the Riverside; Faith and Hope and Love; Happy, Happy Birthday; In the Bleak Midwinter; Innsbruck, I Now Must Leave Thee (Innsbruck, Ich Muss Dich Lassen); Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming; Now All the Woods are Sleeping; Oh Dear! What Can the Matter Be?; Oh Mary, Don't You Weep; Say Love If Ever Thou; Set Me as a Seal; Since First I Saw Your Face; The Star Spangled Banner; Take Me Out to the Ball Game; The Water Is Wide; We Wish You a Merry Christmas; Aura Lee.

Each exercise in this invaluable resource is designed to reinforce fundamental vocal concepts for choral and solo singers of any age. The book is organized in 11 focused categories, so the purpose of every warm-up is evident, and clearly stated directions optimize growth. Supportive piano accompaniments, including progressive modulations, are lightly orchestrated on the enclosed recording - perfect for ensemble rehearsals, studio lessons, or at-home practice. As a bonus, PDF files on the enhanced CD provide extracted vocal lines on reproducible singer pages. This is an instructional book you will use again and again! Topics include: Beginning Warm-Ups; Posture; Vowels; Breath Support; Tone Quality; Diction; Dynamics; Articulations; Diphthongs; Blend; Scales; Intervals; Harmony and more.