Here is a comprehensive guide to teaching healthy vocal technique through designing an efficient choral warm-up that gives the choir "tools" to sing and hear better. Among the topics presented are alignment

Whether it be pattern training or various solfege methods, no method teaches singers to sing in tune! For the first time, James Jordan has developed a "spiraling" complete method for developing aural and

In Sound as Teacher, James Jordan shares a new perceptual pedagogy for training conductors which he discovered while teaching at the Choral Institute at Oxford, a program he co-directs with British

This volume is a continuation of the journey James Jordan began in his now-iconic book The Musician's Soul. In The Moral Acoustic of Sound, Jordan explores and defines those factors that

Through his teaching at The Choral Institute at Oxford each summer, James Jordan has realized the power of metaphor for teaching the highest artistic concepts involving human connection and deeper

Building on the ideas of Rudolf von Laban and Edwin E. Gordon's Music Learning Theory, James Jordan has created an exciting new rhythm and movement pedagogy. This book explores how to organize and sequence

This book explores both the philosophy and practical application of audiation development for choral ensembles with the goal of contributing to a lifelong acquisition of musical skill and audiation. James

In this volume of etudes for conductors, James Jordan details a groundbreaking pedagogy for the development of conducting skills. This method is based on a sequential harmonic process to inform and define

Twenty years after the publication of his landmark work The Musician's Soul, James Jordan returns to themes of musicianship, human connection, and artistry - but with depth and insight only

Discovering Chant asks conductors, teachers and music educators to reconsider the use of plainchant as an essential pedagogy for teaching intonation, phrasing, and understanding of musical line while

The Musician's Soul starts all musicians on a journey to the higher plane of artistic self-expression and soulful spirituality. Words of wisdom are based on Jordan's own journey as a conductor, yet

This supplement to The Choral Warm-Up is a collaborative effort that includes Marilyn Shenenberger's masterfully written accompaniments and modulations for the 25 vocalises included.... view details

Applying the Music Learning Theory of Edwin Gordon, the authors guide teachers and conductors through a reimagined rehearsal process with important supporting pedagogies that help teachers reach new levels

The Complete Choral Warm-Up Sequences represents the first truly pedagogically sequenced collection of choral warm-ups in print and the culmination of work begun three decades ago by Frauke

For more than three decades, James Jordan has been at the forefront of the evolution of the choral warm-up, choral pedagogy, and music teaching and learning, applying the principles of Edwin E. Gordon's

This book - compiled by student James Jordan together with Elaine Brown's trusted colleagues for forty years, Janet Yamron and Sonya Garfinkle - shares not only insights as teacher and conductor, but also