Bartle, Jean Ashworth - Sound Advice

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. The author sees development of musicianship through singing as the primary goal of a children's choir program and covers ways to develop literacy in the choral setting, providing comprehensive repertoire lists, skill-building sheets, and programs for all types of children's choirs.

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CONTENTS

Foreword by Sir David Willcocks
Introduction
Chapter 1, The Formative Years
Chapter 2, Training Eight- to Fourteen-Year-Old Children to Sing
Chapter 3, Checklist for Ideal Rehearsals and Preparation for Complete Artistic Performances
Chapter 4, Developing Literacy
Chapter 5, Discipline
Chapter 6, The Importance of Organization
Chapter 7, The Audition Process: Know Your Children, Your Parents, and Your Community
Chapter 8, Things They Didn't Teach You at Music School
Chapter 9, Conducting an Orchestra
Chapter 10, Preparing the Children to Sing a Major Work with Orchestra
Chapter 11, Recording, Commissioning, and Touring
Chapter 12, From the Children
Appendix 1, Warm-up Vocal Exercises
Appendix 2, Audition Form
Appendix 3, Sample Programs from Toronto Children's Chorus
Appendix 4A, Criteria for Choosing Repertoire Appropriate for Children
Appendix 4B, Repertoire Lists for Toronto Children's Chorus
Appendix 5A, Concepts to Be Learned by the End of Training Choir I, Training Choir II, and Training Choir III
Appendix 5B, Memos for the First Four Rehearsals
Appendix 6, Sight-Singing Curriculum Outline for the Toronto Children's Chorus
Appendix 7, Rounds All Children Should Know
Appendix 8, Treble Choir Repertoire with Orchestral Accompaniment
Appendix 9, Repertoire Recommended List
Appendix 10, Toronto Children's Chorus Compact Discs
Appendix 11, The Seating Plan
Appendix 12, Examples of Four-Measure Sight-Reading Passages
Appendix 13, Transposing and Nontransposing Instruments
Bibliography
Index