For the middle school/junior high choral teacher. This text takes out much of the guesswork of teaching boys whose voices are changing. Includes testing methods, extensive warm-up and voice development exercises, self-image concepts, an extensive list of appropriate choral works, and other welcome information.

Excerpt from The Training of Boys' Voices Nature should be our guide. A correct knowledge of the child-voice, its capabilities and limitations, would' enable singing teachers and Chorus conductors generally to prevent this wholesale injury and destruction. All children have some natural ability to use their voices aright, and the majority can be taught to sing well. The artistic possibilities of boys' voices have been known for centuries. Beautiful ringing tones could be heard from them everywhere if singing teachers were only able to train them in the right way. Mastery of this training is easily attainable by any painstaking teacher who has a good musical ear, a fair knowledge of music, and the necessary patience. The training of Children's voices, however, constitutes a department of voice culture for which some special preparation is required, and to assist in such preparation is the purpose of this little book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Fully updated and expanded, this bestseller now takes into account new reseach in teaching methods, draws from sports science, considers special needs, including adolescent males, and features new illustrations and exercises. 'The indispensable bible. It is difficult to over-emphasise the significance this book has. Remarkable.' Singing Magazine