A complete sourcebook for choral directors of all levels, as well as choral methods classes. Contains 211 warm-ups with information on usage, photos illustrating correct posture and vowel formation, and a well organized index to make finding the right warm-up a snap. Belongs in every choral director's library.

In this book you'll learn such things as secrets to help fill your choir stalls, advanced choir training techniques, the "ten commandments" for leading successful rehearsals, pastoral concerns, contract information, and much more!.

A repertoire resource textbook for building children's choirs. Lifeline for Children's Choir Directors offers extensive repertoire lists as well as perceptive text from one of the foremost experts in the field of children's choir. A useful tool for school, community and church-based groups.

"This handbook is designed to help music educators develop effective objectives, lesson plans, and assessments for their students, forming the backbone of successful classroom, instrumental, and choral instruction. Taking advantage of current best practices and at the same time meeting today's requirements and mandates, Planning Instruction in Music contains sample objectives, assessment ideas, and lesson plan templates designed to show meaningful instruction in action."--GIA website.

The complex art of conducting may look effortless to the casual onlooker, however, it requires a great deal of knowledge and skill. The success of a performance hinges on the director's ability to keep the group playing together and interpreting the music as the composer intended. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Conducting Music shows student and novice conductors how to lead bands, orchestras, choirs, and other ensembles effectively through sight-reading, rehearsals, and performances.

Every choir director struggles with the desire to improve the music reading ability of their choir, yet time to teach music theory in rehearsal is limited. "Singing Between the Lines" was created to help choir directors teach music theory in as little as 15 minutes a week. * Each session is designed for 15-minute segments or can be combined for 30-minute sessions. * Thirty progressive lessons, presented in order, build upon previous concepts. * Familiar hymn tunes are used as teaching examples. * Reproducible participant pages. * The session pages include quick teaching tips, suggestions for ear training, and ways to incorporate the concepts into rehearsals. The concepts presented in "Singing Between the Lines" apply to all music. Your rehearsals will become more productive, ensemble members will be more confident, and the final product will be better when choir members understand what the printed page means.