Love's Redeeming Work Is Done

Awake, Awake to Love and Work

All Things Work for Good - Guitar : Guitar

Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho

Quality of Life Habits of Successful Band Director : Balancing Life and Work for the Modern Music Professional

Finding Balance Between Music and Life : A Guide for Singers and Those Who Teach and Work With Singers

Symphonic Works Analyzed

Conceived as a sequel to the eminent twentieth-century text The Symphony and the Symphonic Poem, Robert Quebbeman’s Symphonic Works Analyzed offers in-depth analysis of over sixty works from additional standard orchestral genres, including the overture, incidental pieces, and works for orchestra and chorus. With repertoire spanning the Classical period to the twentieth century, each analysis provides detailed, easy-to-follow charts outlining the structure and form for each work or movement—complete with music examples showing all the important themes, discussions of the significant details of each composition, and the instrumentation required for performance. Ideal for conducting professionals and students alike, this resource facilitates both the visual and aural components of score study, illuminating the intricacies of each work for efficient assimilation. This book is an essential reference for any orchestral conductor. Robert Quebbeman, A.Mus.D., is an emeritus professor at Missouri State University, where he served for almost thirty years as Director of Orchestral Activities and Director of Graduate Studies in Music.

Teaching Music through perf. in Middle School Jazz : Jazz for Beginning Ensembles

With this volume, the celebrated Teaching Music through Performance series is available for the first time for leaders of beginning jazz ensembles. This edition pairs practical perspectives from world-class jazz educators and performers— whospecialize in working with beginning ensembles—together with Teacher Resource Guides for more than 60 of the best jazz charts published for beginning ensembles. Part II: Conductor as Teacher focuses on the best jazz repertoire published today forbeginning ensembles and provides a Teacher Resource Guide for each work. Each Teacher Resource Guide includes background information on both the composer and the history of each chart, technical and stylistic considerations, a discussion of musicalelements of the work, and measure-by- measure rehearsal tips for the best jazz repertoire tailored for beginning ensembles. The repertoire covers Grade 1 through Grade 3.5. This book is a truly significant resource for both beginning jazz educatorsand their students, and an invaluable contribution to the field.

Teaching Music Through Performance In Band Vol. 12

By Larry Blocher, Eugene Migliaro Corporon, Ray Cramer, Tim Lautzenheiser, Edward S. Lisk, Richard Miles, and Andrew Trachsel. Compiled and edited by Andrew Trachsel. Volume 12 of the landmark Teaching Music through Performance in Band series continues the tradition of excellence—a resource that has become essential for every wind band conductor looking for the best repertoire or to gain insights from leaders of the profession. Like its predecessors, this mammoth volume includes Teacher Resource Guides for 100 significant works published for Grades 2 through 6, including works by Frank Ticheli, John Mackey, Julie Giroux, Ola Gjeilo, Michael Daugherty, Zhou Tian, and many more. Each Teacher Resource Guide includes information about the composer, the work, historical perspectives, technical considerations, stylistic considerations, the musical elements of the work, a form and structure analysis, suggested listening, and additional references—information designed to enhance the musicianship of any performance. Indexes to all 1,200 works covered in this series round out this important volume. And in addition, Part I includes an amazing array of topics: “It’s What We Do ‘In Between’ that Matters” by Larry Blocher, “Contemplations” by Eugene Migliaro Corporon, “Building a Legacy in the Pursuit of Excellence” by Ray Cramer, “Building a Culture of Excellence with Student Leadership” by Tim Lautzenheiser, “Do You Hear What I Hear?” by Edward S. Lisk, “The Influence of Master Teachers” by Richard Miles, and “The Servant Conductor” by Andrew Trachsel. Carrying on the tradition of this wonderful series—and the first volume compiled and edited by Andrew Trachsel—Volume 12 prevails as the indispensable resource for the wind band profession.

Honey from the Rock - Volume 1 : Entrance and Communion Antiphons for the Church Year

Noted composer M. Roger Holland has taken antiphons from the 2010 Roman Missal and paired them with psalm verses, creating compositions that have wide use in the liturgy. Some parishes will want to use these pieces on the appointed day for entranceor communion processionals. Others may find use for them throughout the entire year, perhaps using them as a weekly song through the season. The songs work well as stand-alone processional pieces and many choirs will want to use them as choir anthemsor congregational songs during the preparation of the gifts and altar. While utilizing official texts of the Roman rite, they can be used by congregations of any denomination. Roger explores the wide breadth that is African American music; you’llfind lyric ballades, spiritualinspired offerings, gospel-style songs, and pieces with a more uptempo feel. We are happy to release the first of four collections.CONTENTS: Honey from the Rock - Sing to Your Name - Taste and See - God Is in His Holy Place - The Chalice of Blessing.

The Complete Choral Warm-Up Sequences : A Companion to the Choral Warm-Up

The Complete Choral Warm-Up Sequences represents the first truly pedagogically sequenced collection of choral warm-ups in print and the culmination of work begun three decades ago by Frauke Haaseman and James Jordan. The goal of these twenty sequenced choral warm-ups is to build vocal technique and enduring musical skill in ensembles, regardless of age or experience. By synthesizing the most essential elements of the best-selling book The Choral Warm-Up, authors James Jordan and Jesse Borower assemble a practical and easy-to-use resource for conductors and teachers. The warm-up sequences provide a daily “diet” of vocal technique development based onthe latest research in voice science coupled with exercises to develop intonation and audiation according to the principles of Edwin E. Gordon’s Music Learning Theory. This package includes a book for conductors, a book for accompanists, and links to important online audio and video downloads. Written in an easy-to-use format for choral conductors, this valuable resource is a rich collection of cutting-edge pedagogy and the latest in voice science.

A Choral Director's Guide : Instrumental Conducting

Choral directors are frequently called upon to conduct various instrumental ensembles, from a few accompanying instruments to a full orchestra. This very practical and straightforward book provides insights and advice to those who haven’t studied instrumental conducting, who may be new to conducting instrumentalists, or those who are looking to hone or enhance their skills. Throughout this book, Michael Kemp explains the most beneficial ways for a choral conductor to hire, work with, and lead instrumentalists. The different approach needed to guide instrumental ensembles of varying skill levels is presented clearly and effectively. Helpful and perceptive accounts fromKemp’s wide-ranging experience as a conductor illuminate the material. Useful sample seating chart of various instrumental combinations are also included. Michael E. Kemp is the author of significant training books for choral directors and voice teachers. His goal is to pass on accessible, scholarly concepts to choir directors to enhance their ensembles. A conductor, choral clinician, author, composer, voice teacher, and violist, he is also the founding conductor of Philadelphia’s Academy Chorale and Orchestra.

A Teaching Music through Performance in Band : Discoveries, Inventions, and Designs in the Knowhere! 20th Anniversary Edition

For twenty years, Eugene Corporon, renowned conductor, recording artist, and music educator, has shown generations of band directors not only how to transform the performance of individual ensemble members and the sound of an ensemble, but also how the participants and audience listen to and perceive a musical work. Now, Corporon’s celebrated insights published in each edition of the iconic Teaching Music through Performance in Band series are collected in a single volume, making Explorations, Discoveries, Inventions, and Designs in the Know Where a must-have resource for music educators who want to grow their skills as teacher, communicator, musician, and inspirationto students. Included are chapters on “Making an Emotional Connection” (Volume 3), “Historical Highlights of the Wind Band” (Volumes 6 and 7), “Principles for Achievement, Enhancing Musicianship, and Valued Colleagues” (Volume 8), and much more. Corporon’s complete discography—updated for this volume—is included, as well as a chronological listing of his doctoral and master’s students, and an invaluable bibliography. Of special note is the inclusion of his chapter in the forthcoming Volume 11 of the iconic Teaching Music through Performance in Band series.

Inside the Choral Rehearsal : Harmonic Rehearsal Teaching and Learning Based on the Music Learning Theory of Edwin E. Gordon

James Jordan has spent the past 35 years developing applications of the Music Learning Theory of Edwin E. Gordon to the choral rehearsal. Inside the Choral Rehearsal is the culmination of his work—a comprehensive teaching resource detailing all aspects of skill development for choral ensembles of all ages, and deeply rooted in the psychology of music learning. This book explores both the philosophy and practical application of audiation development for choral ensembles, with the goal of contributing to a lifelong acquisition of music skill and audiation. Contributors: Frank Abrahams • Corey Everly • Jonathan Palmer Lakeland • Marilyn Shenenberger • Jason Vodicka Inside the Choral Rehearsal details: • New rehearsal techniques that teach within a harmonic context to reinforce listening and audiation, contributing to long-term musical growth and sensitivity • A comprehensive approach to teaching aural literacy within the choral rehearsal • Philosophies and procedures for teaching the essential elements of musicianship that will transform ensemble performance • Using Aural Immersion Solfège to teach any piece regardless of an ensemble’s reading literacy and music theory knowledge • The use of tonal and rhythm patterns to build audiation skills within each singer in an ensemble • Understanding harmonic rhythm through movement (Space Audiation) to teach central elements of music • The use the audiational breath to transform both musical and interpretative elements within your ensemble • Vocal pedagogy for teaching vowels that creates possibilities for choral intonation • Use of critical pedagogy within rehearsal procedure to empower choral musicians Inside the Choral Rehearsal is a landmark contribution to the choral world.