Inspire Your Choir: 100 Ideas to Raise the Bar

Author: Mark De-Lisser
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
ISBN: 9781472927408
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The two lead choir mentors from BBC's The Naked Choir. which airs autumn 2015, provide a practical dip-in book of tips and techniques to get choirs to excel. Perfect for all choral leaders, enthusiasts and singers, Dominic and Mark explain how to raise your game and take your choir to the next level, with advice on technical excellence, creating a good working environment, and managing people. The two lead choir mentors from BBC's The Naked Choir. which airs autumn 2015, provide a practical dip-in book of tips and techniques to get choirs to excel. Perfect for all choral leaders, enthusiasts and singers, Dominic and Mark explain how to raise your game and take your choir to the next level, with advice on technical excellence, creating a good working environment, and managing people. With over 25,000 choirs in the UK and the numbers growing, Mark De-Lisser (vocal coach on BBC's 'The Voice' and mentor on 'The Naked Choir') and Dominic Peckham (leading choral director & ambassador and mentor on 'The Naked Choir') provide 100 ideas on how to take choirs to the next level. Sharing their wealth of knowledge and experience, Dominic and Mark's advice will get great groups started, keep choirs moving forward and encourage the best from individual singers, keeping it fun along the way. With advice on how to start a choir from scratch, develop your own musicianship, rehearse effectively, and excel in performance, this pocket-sized guide is an essential resource and its practical guidance will get all choirs on the right track!

Inspiration for the Choir

Author: Fred H. Wilkins
Publisher: CSS Publishing
ISBN: 0788018485
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 83

Book Description
In the rush to prepare for weekly rehearsals, does it sometimes seem as if your choir isn't always focused on why they are there? Inspiration For The Choir offers 40 attention-getting devotions that are a wonderful way to precede the warm-up and start the rehearsal on an inspirational note. Each includes a brief story expounding on a musical or seasonal topic and concludes with a short prayer. This collection is a great way to increase your choir's commitment to God. After all, the choir is just a part of the overall proclamation of the gospel! You'll laugh at the humorous anecdotes ... while deepening your faith. Pithy, practical, and also provocative. These devotionals help to focus the choir singers' thoughts at the beginning of a rehearsal. I have heard them used -- they are effective! Marvin McKissick Associate Professor of Music Azusa Pacific University Dr. Wilkins brings his 50 years experience as a choral director to this charming devotional. Choir members will immediately relate to the often amusing and always faith-based anecdotes. Hartley F. Lee Pastor, Our Saviour's Lutheran Church Long Beach, California I strongly recommend Fred Wilkins' spiritual Inspiration For The Choir. As a long-time choral conductor and choir member, I can easily relate to the many musical and extra-musical adventures in the choir stalls and rehearsal room. Wilkins has balanced the profound with the practical in ways that are enlightening and entertaining. Kenneth Sanson Past President, Los Angeles Chapter Choral Conductors Guild Fred H. Wilkins has served many southern California churches as a choral director, organist, and tenor soloist. He received his doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Southern California, and also has completed all the coursework for a D.M.A. in church music.

Before the Singing

Author: Dr. Barbara Tagg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199920699
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
All children must have an opportunity to share the joy of choral music participation - whether in school, church, or community choirs. What happens before the singing begins, is critical to supporting, sustaining, and nurturing choirs to give every child the opportunity to experience the wonder of choral singing. Based on years of experience conducting and teaching, Barbara Tagg brings a wealth of practical information about ways of organizing choirs. From classroom choirs, to mission statements, boards of directors, commissioning, auditioning, and repertoire, Before the Singing will inspire new ways of thinking about how choirs organize their daily tasks. The collaborative community that surrounds a choir includes conductors, music educators, church choir directors, board members, volunteers, staff, administrators, and university students in music education and nonprofit arts management degree programs. For all these, Tagg offers a wealth of knowledge about creating a positive environment to support artistry, creativity, dedication, and a commitment to striving for excellence.

Fire for the Choir

Author: Ellis D. Thompson
Publisher: CSS Publishing
ISBN: 0788017659
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
While there are plenty of books about the musical techniques of choir directing, there are precious few that deal with the organizational nuts-and-bolts and the people skills required for a smoothly functioning music program. Ellis Dillard Thompson, a veteran choir director and music educator, shares his tried and proven methods for getting choir members excited. He focuses on the role of a church musician as a spiritual leader, and stresses that a truly successful music program is based on spiritual values that uplift, inspire, and motivate participants. This outstanding guide is designed for anyone participating in music ministry: choir directors, choir members, organists, pastors, music committee members, and worship committee members.

Inspire Choir Posters

Author: Clinton Hardy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781962397117
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
INSPIRE CHOIR POSTERS - SET #147 inspirational choir posters. You can put these posters around your classroom, choir/chorus hallways to uplift the students that walk through them.These have inspirational, uplifting, affirming, funny/fun and positive quotes/messages for your choir singers.Size is 18 x 24, with a few that are 24 x 18, printed on premium card stock.These are great for teachers who like to have some fun and some serious posters around their rooms.Send them to a print shop so they can laminate them, if you'd like. I'd highly encourage you to laminate them.

Art & Science in the Choral Rehearsal

Author: Sharon J. Paul
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190863765
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
In recent decades, cognitive neuroscience research has increased our understanding of how the brain learns, retains, and recalls information. At the same time, social psychologists have developed insights into group dynamics, exploring what motivates individuals in a group to give their full effort, or conversely, what might instead inspire them to become free loaders. Art and Science in the Choral Rehearsal explores the idea that choral conductors who better understand how the brain learns, and how individuals within groups function, can lead more efficient, productive, and enjoyable rehearsals. Armed with this knowledge, conductors can create rehearsal techniques which take advantage of certain fundamental brain and social psychology principles. Through such approaches, singers will become increasingly engaged physically and mentally in the rehearsal process. Art and Science in the Choral Rehearsal draws from a range of scientific studies to suggest and encourage effective, evidence-based techniques, and can help serve to reset and inspire new approaches toward teaching. Each chapter outlines exercises and creative ideas for conductors and music teachers, including the importance of embedding problem solving into rehearsal, the use of multiple entry points for newly acquired information, techniques to encourage an emotional connection to the music, and ways to incorporate writing exercises into rehearsal. Additional topics include brain-compatible teaching strategies to complement thorough score study, the science behind motivation, the role imagination plays in teaching, the psychology of rehearsal, and conducting tips and advice. All of these brain-friendly strategies serve to encourage singers' active participation in rehearsals, with the goal of motivating beautiful, inspired, and memorable performances.

Making God’s Praise Glorious!

Author: Roger Wayne Hicks
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1664235574
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 167

Book Description
A book that encourages, entertains, inspires and motivates church choir directors and their choirs. Forty engaging, oftentimes humorous stories drawn from the author's extensive multi-denomination church music career - with supporting practical applications and images. Example stories include: The Soprano Fell Out of the Choir Loft; and When the Choir Stole Our Toothbrushes. The author also addresses the challenges faced by choirs and their directors during the COVID-19 pandemic that may also be applied to other situations. The book is a valued "easy-read" resource in the church choir's ministry of fulfilling the biblical directive to "Shout for joy to God, all the earth! Sing the glory of his name; make his praise glorious! (Psalm 66:1,2) NIV

In Jesus' Name We Sing

Author: Fred H. Wilkins
Publisher: CSS Publishing
ISBN: 0788018000
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
In the rush to prepare for Sunday morning's service, does it sometimes seem like the choir isn't alway focused on the reason why they are there? Increase your choir's commitment to God by sharing some of these devotions with them just before they enter the sanctuary. After all, the choir is just a part of the overall proclamation of the gospel! And while they are responsible for the spiritual leadership of their singers, many choir directors are uncomfortable with praying off the cuff. These prayers are a perfect way to finish up the warm-up rehearsal and start the service on an inspirational note.

Pocket Guide for the Church Choir Member

Author: Kenneth W. Osbeck
Publisher: Kregel Publications
ISBN: 9780825497209
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
A helpful sourcebook of musical fundamentals designed to make every choir member knowledgeable and confident. Includes a glossary of musical terms.

Sound Advice

Author: Jean Ashworth Bartle
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195141784
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Sound Advice is a valuable resource for college students, beginning teachers, and experienced conductors of children's choirs. It covers the vast array of skills needed by today's conductor and will benefit all choir directors who want their choirs to reach a higher level of artistry.This book will be useful on many levels: for the college student studying the child voice and elementary teaching methods; for the teacher beginning to direct choirs in schools, synagogues, churches and communities; for experienced children's choir directors who wish to know more about orchestral repertoire for treble voices, conducting an orchestra, and preparing a children's choir to sing a major work with a professional orchestra.The underlying educational philosophy is sound; the author sees development of musicianship through singing as the primary goal of a children's choir program. This philosophy differs dramatically from the traditional concept of the conductor as all-knowing and the singers as receptacles. An outstanding aspect of the book is how the author leads the reader to an understanding of how to teach musicianship. Developing literacy in the choral setting is a mysterious, amorphous process to many conductors, but the author clearly outlines this important process with practical suggestions, well-documented examples, and a clear reading style which will reach readers on many levels. The comprehensive repertoire, skill-building sheets, and programs for all types of children's choirs will provide teachers with immediate and highly valuable resources.