Music-Genres & Styles-Choral

A retrospective view of the social justice chorus, Amandla as it evolves to Fiery Hope under the direction of Eveline MacDougall, the author. With autobiographical information about the author.Author: Eveline MacdougallISBN-10: 1948380102ISBN-13: 9781948380102Publisher: Haley'sLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/29/2019Pages: 284Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d

Considered an essential resource for students at the Royal Conservatory in Milan and other schools of music, Pasquale Bona's comprehensive guide to rhythmic articulation is written for singers and instrumentalists of all levels, from beginners to professionals. Bona provides 120 騁udes featuring practical methods...

�������� "Christmas Carols Sheet Music: Traditional Carols, Hymns and Popular Songs Sheet Music" ��������Christmas Fun For The Entire Family. Gather your friends and family together for Christmas caroling.*** Sheet music and lyrics *** Experience the joy of Christmas with "Christmas Carols Sheet Music" a...

Internationally recognized Bach authority Hans-Joachim Schulze authored a 225-part series on the cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach. In this collection, James A. Brokaw II translates a selection of the essays, illuminating a wide range of biographical and cultural features of Bach's life and creative...

The Christian Hymnal is a collection of hymns and tunes compiled by Bishop R. M. in 1882. The book is divided into two parts, with the first part containing hymns and the second part containing tunes for congregational and social worship. The hymns cover...

This book is a collection of essays on 20th-century choral music written by the composers themselves. The book includes contributions from some of the most important composers of the 20th century, including Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten, and Leonard Bernstein. This book is an essential...

Choral conductors and clinicians often focus on honing the technical and artistic elements of their choir's performance, but what is the true purpose of choral singing? Choral performances sound beautiful, but they also tell stories, "say something" to someone, and create change in them....

In this groundbreaking work, Daniel Brink Towner offers readers a collection of some of the most beloved and enduring male choir music of all time. With its stirring melodies and powerful harmonies, this collection is sure to inspire and uplift all who hear it.This...

""Christmas: Its Carols, Customs And Legends"" by Ruth Heller is a comprehensive guide to the traditions, stories, and songs associated with the holiday season. The book explores the origins and meanings behind popular Christmas customs such as decorating trees, giving gifts, and hanging stockings....

In the film "De-Lovely," Cole Porter admonishes the chorus of "Kiss Me Kate" to snap out their consonants. This book is not only about consonants, but also about vowels, breathing, round sounds and head tones--just a few of the many techniques discussed that will...

This book is a collection of essays on 20th-century choral music written by the composers themselves. The book includes contributions from some of the most important composers of the 20th century, including Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten, and Leonard Bernstein. This book is an essential...

How do we get through life's challenges? How do we survive as Square pegs in a round world? With over twenty years of experience working with volunteers, Dr. Joel Plaag has a few suggestions to live in this moment. In his latest book, Dr....

Historical Dictionary of Choral Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,300 cross-referenced entries on composers, conductors, choral ensembles, choral genres, and choral repertoire.Author: Melvin P. UngerISBN-10: 1538124335ISBN-13: 9781538124338Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage:...

This monograph offers a comprehensive study of the topos of the malmariée or the unhappily married woman within the thirteenth-century motet repertory, a vocal genre characterized by several different texts sounding simultaneously over a foundational Latin chant. Part I examines the malmariée motets from...

A New Perspective for the Use of Dialect in African American Spirituals: History, Context, and Linguistics investigates the use of the African American English (AAE) dialect in the musical genre of the spiritual. Perfect for conductors and performers alike, this book traces the history...

Preaching to the Choir imparts practical and pastoral wisdom to church musicians in their vocation as choir directors. With deep care for those who sing and a warm sense of humor;Wold invites all who work with choirs to discover the amazing responsibility in this...

A History of Western Choral Music explores the various genres, key composers, and influential works essential to the development of the western choral tradition. Author Chester L. Alwes divides this exploration into two volumes which move from Medieval music and the Renaissance era up...

Letters to a Young Conductor: Thoughts on Music and Life is written with a younger version of myself in mind. Over four sections, "Mindset," "In Rehearsal," "In Concert," and "Building A Career," I offer the advice I wish I had listened to when I...

Calvin loved to go to school on Thursdays---that's when they had music. On many days however, he was faced with bullies on the playground---one in particular. Sensing Calvin's uncanny ear for music, his third-grade music teacher suggested he audition for a boy choir school...

Now in its second edition, Choral Repertoire is the definitive and comprehensive one-volume presentation of the canon of the Western choral tradition. Designed for conductors and directors, students and teachers of choral music, amateur and professional singers, scholars, and interested vocal enthusiasts alike, it...

Harmony from the Inside Out A Guide to Peak Performance Live into your potential by leveraging your biggest asset - You Use this book and the exercises in it to explore and experience the positive results of living, working and performing from the inside...

More than 200 years after the first speaking machine, we are accustomed to voices that speak from any- and everywhere. We interact daily with voices that emit from house alarm systems, cars, telephones, and digital assistants, such as Alexa and Google Home. However, vocal...

This book is designed for the general reader of gospel music, as well as those who incorporate gospel into their lesson plans on the academic level. "Gospel Music: An African American Art Form" provides music information on the heritage of gos...Author: Joan Rucker-HillsmanISBN-10: 1460232194ISBN-13:...

Most choir members will attest that choir rehearsals can be exciting, exhilarating, and bring sheer joy; on the other hand, they can be arduous and boring While one may be committed to learning and becoming the best they can be to bring honor and...

This is the thirtieth volume from the pen of Narad (Richard M. Eggenberger) and it is a work to which he has devoted a lifetime. On the Descent of a New Music chronicles the composers who have brought down, and continue to bring down,...

Our contemporary culture is communicating ever-increasingly through the visual, through film, and through music. This makes it ever more urgent for theologians to explore the resources of art for enriching our understanding and experience of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Annunciations: Sacred Music for the twenty-First...

First published in 1921, "The Shanty Book" is a vintage collection of traditional sailor songs-or, shanties-compiled into this volume by Richard Runciman Terry. Each song comes complete with the original lyrics and clear sheet music, and are perfect for those with an interest in...

Gregorian chant belongs to the oldest music being preserved in such scope till present, moreover it is still performed but also is one that mostly influenced the history and presence of music. For the reason it is important for Anglo Concertina (30-Button Wheatstone Lachenal...

The Show Choir Handbook is a resource for current and future music educators who administer show choirs. With most literature on the topic either out of date or focused on the teaching techniques limited to vocal jazz, instructors are in dire need of a...

for SATB and piano or small ensemble This celebratory work sees Bob Chilcott collaborate with poet Charles Bennett to explore all that we can learn from the natural world. The first movement, 'Follow the music', leads us on a journey through the woods that...

A History of Western Choral Music explores the various genres, key composers, and influential works essential to the development of the western choral tradition. Author Chester L. Alwes divides this exploration into two volumes which move from Medieval music and the Renaissance era up...

Singers, teachers, coaches, and conductors will appreciate French Lyric Diction: A Singer's Guide for its thorough account of the language as it is sung in opera and mélodie. Often-overlooked topics are explored, including phrasal and emphatic stress, vocalic length, singing the French r, and...

The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams: Autographs, Context, Discourse combines contextual knowledge, a musical commentary, an inventory of the holograph manuscripts, and a critical assessment of the opus to create substantial and meticulous examinations of Ralph Vaughan Williams's choral-orchestral works. The contents include...

With Kansas City, Missouri as a backdrop, you will enjoy a humorous behind-the-scenes peek at four part harmony as can only be sung by women. This year in the life of a chorus girl tells why these women will wear identical dresses as their...

Empowering Song: Music Education from the Margins weaves together subversive pedagogy and theories of resistance with community music education and choral music, inspiring professionals to revisit and reconsider their pedagogical practices and approaches. The authors' unique insight into some of the most marginalized and...

Curlew River---A Parable for Church Performance (Op. 71) is the first of three Church Parables by Benjamin Britten. The work is based on the Japanese Noh play Sumidagawa (Sumida River) of Juro Motomasa (1395--1431), which Britten saw during a visit to Japan and the...

The Listening Conductor explores one of the most important aspects of choral training and development - the power of listening. Why do we need to listen in rehearsals? How do we develop and improve our listening? How does focussed listening impact on choral development?...

The Listening Conductor explores one of the most important aspects of choral training and development - the power of listening. Why do we need to listen in rehearsals? How do we develop and improve our listening? How does focussed listening impact on choral development?...

Singing is one thing, but singing together is something else. Powerful and uplifting, group singing creates deep human connections and benefits our wellbeing. And it's fun. Vocal leader James Sills believes that group singing has the power to change lives. It is a joyful...

The fields of performance studies, empirical musicology, and the musicology of recordings have seen a tremendous development in recent years, shedding new light on the recent history of our performing tradition and conveying essential information to music practitioners, critics and audiences. This innovative work...

The fields of performance studies, empirical musicology, and the musicology of recordings have seen a tremendous development in recent years, shedding new light on the recent history of our performing tradition and conveying essential information to music practitioners, critics and audiences. This innovative work...

The aftermath of World War II sent thousands of Estonian refugees into Europe. The years of Estonian independence (1917-1940) had given them a taste of freedom and so relocation to displaced person (DP) camps in post-war Germany was extremely painful. One way in which...

There is a paucity of material regarding how choral music specifically was performed in the 1800s. The Historically Informed Performance (HIP) movement has made remarkable advancements in choral music of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods, with modest forays into the music of Beethoven,...

Choral Treatises and Singing Societies in the Romantic Age charts the interrelated beginning and development of choral methods and community choruses beginning in the early nineteenth century. Using more than one-hundred musical examples, illustrations, tables, and photographs to document this phenomenon, author David Friddle...

This collection of ten essays constitutes the proceedings of a two-day conference held at Harvard in October 2007. The conference focused on three medieval manuscripts of Ambrosian chant owned by Houghton Library. The Ambrosian liturgy and its music, practiced in and around medieval Milan,...

Author: Kip LornellISBN-10: 0870498770ISBN-13: 9780870498770Publisher: Univ Tennessee PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/14/1995Pages: 270Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.01h x 6.08w x 0.81d

On Eagles' Wings is a wonderfully uplifting piece and forms part of the newly created Faber Choral Signature Series. Words are taken from Deuteronomy, Isaiah and Psalm 40. The piece was conceived as a flexible anthem: the accompaniment may be taken by piano /...

The aftermath of World War II sent thousands of Estonian refugees into Europe. The years of Estonian independence (1917-1940) had given them a taste of freedom and so relocation to displaced person (DP) camps in post-war Germany was extremely painful. One way in which...

Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality is about sacred and secular choirs in Goa and Shillong across churches, seminaries, schools, auditoriums, classrooms, reality TV shows, and festivals. Voice and genre emerge as social objects annotated by tradition, nostalgia, and innovation. Piety literally...

This is a book about classical music - for people who say they love music "but don't understand how it works", as well as for performers and music students of all ages. Proposing that deeper enjoyment begins with an understanding of music's basic structures,...