Teaching Music Through Performance in Choir

The long-awaited release of the next installment of this invaluable series continues the tradition of essential insights from leading choral directors along with resource guides to the very best choral literature in print. Scheibe leads a new team of outstanding choral music educators on topics relevant to today's choral directors. Part I includes: The Rise of Concert Gospel Music by Jeffery Ames; Choral Pedagogy: The Anatomy of the Rehearsal Process by Hilary Apfelstadt; Painting with Sound: Developing Tone with Female Voices through Choral Literature by Lynne Gackle; Choral First Aid or Long-Term Music Learning? - Rethinking and Redesigning the Choral Rehearsal by James Jordan; Consonant Connection by Jo-Michael Scheibe; and The Collaborative Conductor - The Maestro Me vs. The Art of We by Philip Swan. Part II presents repertoire resource guides for nearly 100 outstanding choral works for a diverse range of ensembles graded by level of difficulty. Indexes by title, publisher, and composer/arranger for all four volumes of the series are included, and an extraordinary companion recording of all selections is also available.