Teaching Music Through Performance in Choir

Choosing repertoire is one of the most important and time-consuming tasks choral conductors undertake. The Teaching Music Through Performance in Choir series remains one of the most important resources for choir directors looking for quality repertoire that has been vetted by a distinguished panel of educators. Each volume in the series contains Teacher Resource Guides for 100 works, organized by difficulty. Selected by a team of leading choir directors, the repertoire in Volume 5 balances SATB literature with works for treble and tenor-bass choirs and includes a healthy mix of selections aimed at bringing greater attention to the rich choral culture in Canada. Featuring the same team of authors as Volume 4, this volume includes: More Than Spirituals and Concert Gospels: Choral Music in the Western European Tradition by Contemporary African American Composers by Jeffery Ames; North of the Border: Accessible Choral Music by Canadian Composers by Hilary Apfelstadt; Engaging the Voice, the Mind, and the Spirit: An Effective Approach Toward Literature Selection with Treble Voices by Lynne Gackle; The Blueprint of Ensemble Musicianship Contained Within Chant by James Jordan; It's All About the Up: Journey, Text, Gesture, Music, and Motion by Jo-Michael Scheibe; and Community Collaboration: Relevant Programming that Moves Beyond the Classroom and into the Community by Phillip Swan. Indexes by title, publisher, and composer/arranger for all five volumes of the series are included, and an extraordinary companion recording of all selections is also available. There is simply no better way to find and prepare the best choral literature available for achieving excellence in choral music education at all levels.