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Building Bridges

For developing choirs including middle school, junior high and beginning level high school singers, this CME series features a culturally diverse and educationally conceived choral repertoire composed and arranged to motivate and inspire continued musical growth through the transition years. Interchangeable voicings are often used.

Celtic Voices

Using original compositions and inspired arrangements from diverse Celtic traditions, both ancient and modern, Celtic Voices features music from Ireland, Scotland, England and Europe. Includes works for treble and mixed chorus for use in both the classroom and the concert hall.

Choral Music Experience

This original CME series for children’s choirs pioneered “artistry in education” as the first published resource to encourage the development of musicianship through performance repertoire. Includes a culturally and stylistically diverse repertoire for young treble choirs at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels of challenge.

Conductor’s Choice

Featuring a broad and comprehensive range of selected choral music for mixed voice high school, college, and community choirs, the music in this CME series is inspired by great poetry and distinguished texts in many languages. It has it all, from a cappella to multi-movement works with orchestra or instrumental ensemble accompaniment.

From the Podium

Doreen Rao’s signature series showcases familiar multi-movement works recommended for professional and educational performance contexts. These 20th Anniversary editions feature newly edited and compiled versions of CME favorites. Includes culturally diverse repertoire, a cappella and accompanied.

Holiday Lights

For holiday festivals, liturgical use or concert stage, Holiday Lights celebrates the season in many different styles. Selected American, Canadian, British and European composers and arrangers are included in this CME series.

In High Voice

Sandra Snow, editor

Especially for women, In High Voice features an innovative and expressive repertoire for high school, collegiate and community women’s choirs. Included in this CME series are selected choral classics, serious contemporary works and world music repertoire for treble choirs of all levels and abilities.

In Low Voice

Jonathan Reed, advisor

Especially for men, In Low Voice offers an original and exciting repertoire for high school, collegiate and community men’s choirs. Selected choral classics, serious contemporary works and world music repertoire for men’s choirs of all levels and abilities are included in this CME series.

Latin Accents

Janet Galvan, advisor

A unique series designed to broaden the student’s knowledge of authentic Latin American vocal styles containing Indian, Arabic, African, Hispanic and European influences. Predominantly in Spanish with English translations, this CME series includes repertoire for treble and mixed voiced choirs at all levels of ability.

Opera Workshop

Emily Ellsworth, advisor

A series of dramatic inspired works developed to encourage interactive musical experiences for young choirs. Repertoire in this CME series includes standard classics, new and experimental projects.

A Contemplative Approach to Singing - Through Meditation, Movement and Vocalization.

Circle of Sound Voice Education is a contemplative approach to singing that blends ancient Eastern breathing meditation and martial art movement practices with Western bel canto vocalization exercises as an inspiring and healthful way of enriching traditional approaches to studio, classroom, and rehearsal pedagogy. This revolutionary approach connects the power of singing to the wholeness of body, mind, and spirit – all in one great textbook.

Boosey & Hawkes

The complete resource for training young choirs

Provides everything you need: the basics of how to produce a good singing tone, basic music theory, reading and ear training, vocal exercises, 18 songs, rehearsal guides, evaluation questions and assessment materials

Offers an insightful, practical approach to classroom music.  Helps instill a life-long love of music in your students while giving them a solid foundation in musical understanding and singing skill.

The 18 choral arrangements in the book are also available in three separate "Performance Program" books, making them easy to use in concert as well as in the classroom. Program 1: O Music, Sweet Music-Mason/Rao; The Sally Gardens-arr. Britten; Simple Gifts-arr. Copland; She's Like The Swallow-arr. Dolloff; A Spring Morning-Carey/Rao; Good Night-Kabalevsky. Program 2: Jubilate Deo-Praetorius/Rao; The Path To The Moon-Thiman; I Know Where I'm Goin'-arr. Hughes; Oliver Cromwell-arr. Britten; Bist Du Bei Mir-Bach; Ching-A-Ring Chaw-arr. Copland. Program 3: Hodie from "A Ceremony Of Carols"-Britten; A Child Is Born-Anon.; Poor Little Children-Spiritual; How Beautiful Are The Feet Of Them from "Messiah"-Handel; In Dulci Jubilo-Bach and Jingle Bell Swing-arr. Elliott.

Boosey & Hawkes.

On this extraordinary DVD, master conductor Sandra Snow outlines a new paradigm for choral teaching and rehearsing within performance-based classes.

Through emphasizing how to develop teaching strategies from the podium, Dr. Snow presents a systematic, pragmatic approach to:

• Developing diagnostic rehearsal strategies

• Capitalizing on teachable moments in rehearsal

• Productive score study

• Unlocking imagination in teaching

• Formulating a personal yet authentic interpretation of a piece

• Planning rehearsals based on one’s individual musical interpretation

• Increasing keyboard skills for rehearsal

• Learning how to listen to one’s choir with discriminating ears

• Empowering a student’s full musical potential

The heart of this DVD features 38 mini-rehearsal segments of Dr. Snow, Jonathan Reed, and colleagues teaching and leading a variety of mixed, women’s, and men’s choirs at the high school and college levels. These segments model how to continually analyze and respond to the sounds being produced by an ensemble.

Extensive, full-color animated graphics support the score study and analysis sections of this DVD, as well as the helpful, step-by-step demonstrations of the process of improving keyboard and perceptive listening skills.

For any practitioner of the choral arts, this DVD takes a groundbreaking approach to the role of the conductor/teacher, helping to bring true growth to the musicianship of choral singers.

Sandra Snow is Associate Professor of Music Education and Choral Conducting at the Michigan State University College of Music. She is a nationally known choral clinician, conductor, and music educator.

Jonathan Reed is Professor of Music and Associate Director of Choral Programs at the Michigan State University College of Music.

Format: DVD

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