Sound advice : becoming a better children's choir conductor / / Jean Ashworth Bartle [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825729003321
• Autore: Bartle Jean Ashworth
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• ISBN: 0-19-772918-5; 1-280-48166-8; 0-19-803248-X; 1-60256-905-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Collana: Oxford scholarship online
• Disciplina: 782.7/145
• Soggetti: Choral conducting; Children's choirs; Choral singing - Instruction and study; Music
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2003.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; ONE: The Formative Years; TWO: Training Eight- to Fourteen-Year-Old Children to Sing; THREE: Checklist for Ideal Rehearsals and Preparation for Complete Artistic Performances; FOUR: Developing Literacy; FIVE: Discipline; SIX: The Importance of Organization; SEVEN: The Audition Process: Know Your Children, Your Parents, and Your Community; EIGHT: Things They Didn't Teach You at Music School; NINE: Conducting an Orchestra; TEN: Preparing the Children to Sing a Major Work with Orchestra; ELEVEN: Recording, Commissioning, and Touring; TWELVE: From the Children; APPENDIX ONE: Warm-up Vocal Exercises APPENDIX TWO: Audition Form; APPENDIX THREE: Sample Programs from Toronto Children's Chorus; APPENDIX FOUR A: Criteria for Choosing Repertoire Appropriate for Children; APPENDIX FOUR B: Repertoire Lists for Toronto Children's Chorus; APPENDIX FIVE A: Concepts to Be Learned by the End of Training Choir I, Training Choir II, and Training Choir III; APPENDIX FIVE B: Memos for the the First Four Rehearsals; APPENDIX SIX: Sight-Singing Curriculum Outline for the Toronto Children's ; Chorus; APPENDIX SEVEN: Rounds All Children Should Know; APPENDIX EIGHT: Treble Choir Repertoire with Orchestral Accompaniment APPENDIX NINE: Repertoire Recommended List; APPENDIX TEN: Toronto Children's Chorus Compact Discs; APPENDIX ELEVEN: The Seating Plan; APPENDIX TWELVE: Examples of Four-Measure Sight-Reading Passages; APPENDIX THIRTEEN: Transposing and Nontransposing Instruments; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The vast array of skills needed by today's conductor of children's choirs is covered in this text. Everything from the development of musicianship through singing & literacy in the choral setting, to the challenges of conducting an orchestra, working with parents & working with staff, is outlined.