Vocal chamber music encompasses a wide range of music composed for anything from a solo to twelve voices and instruments. Performing chamber music offers the singer a unique opportunity to increase collaboration with instrumentalists and improve technique, musicianship, artistry, and communication. So You Want to Sing Chamber Music offers a comprehensive guide to learning, rehearsing, and performing in this genre. The book explores such critical skills as choosing repertoire that is appropriate for one’s voice type, communicating with wind players and string players, preparing for a successful rehearsal, performance style, staging considerations, and recital programming. Also included are suggestions on using vocal chamber music as a pedagogical tool in the voice studio, alongside recommendations for listening and further reading. Additional chapters by Scott McCoy and Wendy LeBorgne address universal questions of voice science, pedagogy, and vocal health. The So You Want to Sing seriesis produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing Chamber Music features online supplemental material on the NATS website. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources

Vocal Chamber Music: A Performer's Guide is an exhaustive listing of works scored for voice, ranging from pieces for one voice and one instrument to pieces for twelve voices and twelve instruments. Created for college and conservatory teachers, it is also an essential reference for voice teachers and singers as a source of repertory for recitals, and for singers who may be unfamiliar with the literature. Vocal Chamber Music: A Performer's Guide lists composers in alphabetical order and includes an index listing voices in score order, allowing the user to quickly find either works by a specific composer or works appropriate for their voice or any combination of voices and instruments. Sample programs provide ideas on how to group these works and the introduction provides a clear road map for creating effective ensembles for the classroom, recitals, or the concert stage.

This invaluable resource is a revised edition of an essential index to vocal works composed for at least one solo voice and one instrument (other than piano or guitar) up to twelve solo voices and twelve solo instruments. The book includes a brief introduction on how to teach vocal chamber music, with tips on running a successful ensemble. Vocal Chamber Music: A Performer's Guide, 2nd Edition is a much needed and important book for voice teachers, singers, music directors and music libraries, for information that is normally difficult to find and usually requires assembling from various sources.

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Lists some 700 published pieces of music for solo voice with small instrumental ensemble, written by more than 600 composers, between 1960 and 1989. The main section of the book is arranged by voice type and alphabetized by composer. Entries include information on difficulty, vocal range, language,