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This handbook offers a unique perspective of choral singing from a soloist's viewpoint, providing a clear outline of several issues facing the solo singer in the choral setting. It discusses concepts as diverse as body position in rehearsal and acoustic sound production, and it offers practical ideas and solutions to these challenges. Teaching examples and case studies help illustrate the problems and potential solutions for handling the challenges of the choral environment.

This handbook offers a unique perspective of choral singing from a soloist's viewpoint, providing a clear outline of several issues facing the solo singer in the choral setting. It discusses concepts as diverse as body position in rehearsal and acoustic sound production, and it offers practical ideas and solutions to these challenges. Teaching examples and case studies help illustrate the problems and potential solutions for handling the challenges of the choral environment.

This collection of essays by European, British, and American musicologists seeks to consolidate the recent growth of interest in seventeenth century studies. It includes discussions of leading composers, repertories, geographical issues, institutional contexts, and iconography.

During the past two decades, a secondary movement has been sweeping across Europe and Australia, and is now taking root in East Asian countries, such as Japan and China. The source of this phenomenon is African-American, or Black gospel music. While churches, which otherwise are sparsely attended during worship services fill up when gospel music is on the agenda, larger events, such as gospel festivals, are packing concert halls with couple thousand. This places gospel music among one of the more marketable and popular music genres in all of Denmark. In a country with a population of only...

Four Parts, No Waiting investigates the role that vernacular, barbershop-style close harmony has played in American musical history, in American life, and in the American imagination. Starting with a discussion of the first craze for Austrian four-part close harmony in the 1830s, Averill traces the popularity of this musical form in minstrel shows, black recreational singing, vaudeville, early recordings, and in the barbershop revival of the 1930s. In his exploration of barbershop, Averill uncovers a rich musical tradition--a hybrid of black and white cultural forms, practiced by...

Nineteenth-Century Choral Music is a collection of essays that study both the rich repertoire of choral music, and the cultural phenomenon of choral music making throughout the period. The book is divided into three main sections, the first devoted to the impact of choral music making on multiple parts of society, and to the role of choral voices in the two principal large-scale genres of the period: the symphony and opera. A second section highlights ten choral-orchestral masterworks that are central part of the repertoire of the period. The final section presents overview and focus chapters...

Yarrington provides practical advice on how to get started, offers techniques that work to establish a good sound, suggests music suitable for youth, deals with the challenge of changing voices, and more.

One act review / 6 to 30 children (10 to 15 is ideal), ages 5 to 15

Area staging; unit set.

This musical romp through the joys and sorrows of being a child is hilarious. Children give 23 lessons in such subjects as how to beg for a dog, how to torture your sister, how to act after being sent to your room and how to laugh hysterically. The pace is fast, the tone subversive and the recognition instant.

"Applause, applause, applause "-- Steve Allen

"Delightfully clever."-- Hollywood Reporter

"Razzle dazzle staging, Broadway style songs and an imaginative script."-- TV Guide.

This Peking Opera tale from the Song Dynasty was the likely catalyst for Carlo Gozzi's The Green Bird. Newly translated and adapted, it contains the original Chinese text on facing pages. Paired with The Green Bird, the two plays vividly contrast the dramaturgy of two diverse cultures within the same basic story.

A new kind of songbook emerged in the later fifteenth century: personalized, portable, and lavishly decorated. Five closely related chansonniers, copied in the Loire Valley region of central France c. 1465-c. 1475, are the earliest surviving examples of this new genre.
The Loire Valley Chansonniers preserve the music of such renowned composers as Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Ockeghem, and Antoine Busnoys. But their importance as musical sources has overshadowed the significance of these manuscripts as artifacts in their own right.
This book places the physical objects at center,...

Wer kennt sie nicht, die Melodien von beliebten Gesangbuchliedern wie "Nun danket alle Gott" oder "Ich singe dir mit Herz und Mund"? Viele Texte der alteren Lieder bedurfen jedoch genauer Ausdeutung oder bleiben in der heutigen Zeit vollig fremd. Peter Spangenberg versieht bekannte Melodien mit erfrischend lebensnahen und aktuellen Texten, die zentrale Glaubensinhalte mitten in unseren Alltag hineinholen. In thematisch geordneten Kapiteln wie "Der Lauf des Lebens," "Abend und Morgen," "Kirchenjahr" oder "Lob und Hoffnung" finden sich viele vertraute Lieder des Gesangbuches und daruber hinaus....

Play with Music

Character: 14 males or females

Scenic Requirement: An open space.

This is a series of playlets which tell the various well-known tales of Robin Hood. The possibilities for presenting the play are numerous open stage, promenade, open air as well as on a proscenium stage. There is a basic cast of fourteen, but the authors envisage productions in which large numbers of local people take part, emphasizing the basic concept of the play which is that of a musical celebration by a whole community.

For this beloved Cantata, the Novello vocal score prepared by the eminent English organist John Ebenezer West was re-engraved by G. Schirmer in the early part of the 20th century with Henry Drinker's English translation added beneath the original German text. The West vocal score was itself based upon the renowned Bach Gesellschaft full score of 1850. Now available in an easy-to-use, convenient size designed to fit comfortably in choral folders.

Chris Burton and Gary Thompson have compiled a fascinating collection of flyers advertising secret parties on the Bristol circuit in the 80s and conducted a series of interviews with the people behind the leading hip hop crews of the day. The result is a book that covers an area in Bristol's (and the UK's) musical development that has never before been documented. Nothing seemed to daunting for the young DJs, MCs and rappers as they took over abandoned buildings, moved in the sound systems and partied al night long. The only publicity was word of mouth and flyers. Many of the artists behind...

Specially designed for people using Sing & See, "How to Sing and See: Singing Pedagogy in the Digital Era" is a comprehensive guide to using visual feedback software in ways that will foster both vocal and musical development. It includes explanation of the Sing & See on-screen visual displays, a discussion of vocal questions that need to be considered in the individual application of the software, and over 200 vocal training exercises. The exercises cover intervals, triads and a comprehensive range of scales and modes used in a range of vocal styles. A page is devoted to each exercise, with...

Divorce Me, Darling is a nostalgic and amusing take-off of the musical comedies of the 1930s and a sequel to the technique used in The Boy Friend for the 1920s. The charming young pupils of Mme Dubonnet's finishing school who married their respective 'boy friends' now come together again after ten years of marriage at the Hotel du Paradis in Nice. But the initial euphoria of married life has worn off and as they sing and dance their way through some catchy numbers events are misconstrued and partners change until everyone wants a divorce. The situation is finally taken in hand by Mme...

Bach's Johannine Theology: The St. John Passion and the Cantatas for Spring 1725 is a fertile examination of this group of fourteen surviving liturgical works. Renowned Bach scholar Eric Chafe begins his investigation into Bach's theology with the composer's St. John Passion, concentrating on its first and last versions. Beyond providing a uniquely detailed assessment of the passion, Bach's Johannine Theology is the first work to take the work beyond the scope of an isolated study, considering its meaning from a variety of musical and historical standpoints. Chafe thereby uncovers a range of...

Learn to Sing Like An Idol

True Vocal Power Can Be Yours With This Easy To Read Manual

Let professional vocalist Mark W. Curran show you how to learn vocal techniques that will make you sound like a pop idol. Whether you aspire to become a singing pop star or just want to learn to sing better in the shower, this manual will help you to learn to sing better using proven vocal techniques that command attention and get results.

This book explores live vocal performance techniques, and also briefly examines the opportunities that currently exist for singers - tips and tricks for...