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 Free Download Frank Abrahams, "The Oxford Handbook of Choral Pedagogy " English | ISBN: 0197528880 | 2020 | 570 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 26 MB As the landscape of choral education changes - disrupted by Glee, YouTube, and increasingly cheap audio production software - teachers of choral conducting need current research in the field that charts scholarly paths through contemporary debates and sets an agenda for new critical thought and practice. Where, in the digitizing world, is the field of choral pedagogy moving? Editor Frank Abrahams and Paul D. Head, both experienced choral conductors and teachers, offer here a comprehensive handbook of newly-commissioned chapters that provide key scholarly-critical perspectives on teaching and learning in the field of choral music, written by academic scholars and researchers in tandem with active choral conductors.  Free Download Julia "Jules" Balén, "A Queerly Joyful Noise: Choral Musicking for Social Justice" English | ISBN: 0813588383 | 2017 | 224 pages | EPUB | 2 MB 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title  Free Download Donna M. Di Grazia, "Nineteenth-Century Choral Music" English | 2012 | ISBN: 0415988535, 0415988527 | PDF | pages: 541 | 4.4 mb Nineteenth-Century Choral Music is an in-depth examination of the rich repertoire of choral music and the cultural phenomenon of choral music making throughout the period. The book is divided into three main sections. The first details the attraction to choral singing and the ways it was linked to different parts of society, and to the role of choral voices in the two principal large-scale genres of the period: the symphony and opera. A second section highlights ten choral-orchestral masterworks that are a central part of the repertoire. The final section presents overview and focus chapters covering composers, repertoire (both small and larger works), and performance life in an historical context from over a dozen regions of the world: Britain and Ireland, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latin America, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia and Finland, Spain, and the United States.
 Free Download Aegina: Contexts for Choral Lyric Poetry: Myth, History, and Identity in the Fifth Century BC By David Fearn 2011 | 528 Pages | ISBN: 0199546517 | PDF | 6 MB This collection of essays by notable scholars from a variety of disciplines deals with different aspects of the history and culture of the Greek island of Aegina in the fifth century BC. The island is well known as the home of magnificent architecture and sculpture; as the patron of impressive lyric poetry composed by Pindar and his contemporaries; and, from the pages of Herodotus, as a significant trading power, and military threat to her great neighbour Athens. The book brings together experts on choral lyric poetry, myth, art-history, and historiography, with the aim of offering a broad view of the island's significance in some of the major trends in fifth-century Greek history and culture, and situating the island's patronage of some of the greatest Classical poets within broader cultural and historical frames.
 The Choral Music of Twentieth-Century Women Composers: Elisabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy and Thea Musgrave By Catherine Roma 2005 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 081085029X | PDF | 4 MB This book brings to light the choral works of three contemporary British women composers: Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994), and Thea Musgrave (1928- ). Earning solid reputations in Britain through their varying compositional styles, their music has revealed them to be substantial, prolific composers who are representative of major trends in twentieth-century British choral composition. Lutyens, often described as a musical pioneer, incorporates a highly personal and imaginative style in her use of twelve-tone technique, and her departures from the strict practice of serial writing are always highly personal and imaginative. Maconchy describes her own technique as 'impassioned argument,' using compositional tools such as contrapuntal textures in both her instrumental and choral works, resulting in a high degree of chromatic color. Musgrave encompasses many modes of expression, from her early choral works featuring tonal diatonic writing, to a free chromatic style with imprecise tonality at times. Complete with historical perspective, musical examples, and reproductions of choral texts, this resource of important and little known contemporary choral works demonstrates the diverse approaches used by these and other contemporary composers, and contributes to the growing literature on women in music.  Ryan Minor, "Choral Fantasies: Music, Festivity, and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany" English | ISBN: 0521760712 | 2012 | 284 pages | PDF | 3 MB
 An Imperishable Heritage: British Choral Music from Parry to Dyson; a Study of Selected Works By Stephen Town 2012 | 327 Pages | ISBN: 0754605361 | PDF | 5 MB  English | 2021 | ISBN: 1107110688 | 785 Pages | PDF | 13 MB Why did the Greeks of the archaic and early Classical period join in choruses that sang and danced on public and private occasions? This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of representations of chorality in the poetry, art and material remains of early Greece in order to demonstrate the centrality of the activity in the social, religious and technological practices of individuals and communities. Moving from a consideration of choral archetypes, among them cauldrons, columns, Gorgons, ships and halcyons, the discussion then turns to an investigation of how participation in choral song and dance shaped communal experience and interacted with a variety of disparatespheres that include weaving, cataloguing, temple architecture and inscribing. The study ends with a treatment of the role of choral activity in generating epiphanies and allowing viewers and participants access to realms that typically lie beyond their perception.
 The Choral Conductor's Companion: 100 Rehearsal Techniques, Imaginative Ideas, Quotes, and Facts by Brian J. Winnie 2020 | ISBN: 1574635255 | English | 256 pages | EPUB | 3 MB One hundred powerful rehearsal techniques and ideas passionately shared by leading expert choral pedagogues, composers, conductors, vocologists, music therapists, researchers, speech-language pathologists, studio teachers, and professional practitioners. Each quick-to-read, insightful article includes fascinating facts about famous composers and conductors, thoughtful motivational quotes, and suggested additional reading selections. It s an excellent university text and go-to source for choral conductor-teachers at all levels. Sample topics include: "Useful Compositional Techniques for Directors," Jeffery L. Ames, Professor; Belmont University "The Yin and Yang of Vocal Sight-Reading," Michele L. Henry, Professor; Baylor University "Five Steps for Planning and Rehearsing Repertoire," Patrick K. Freer, Professor; Georgia State University "Teacher Talk," Jessica Nápoles, Associate Professor, University of North Texas "Choral Resonance: Sound, Science, Spirit," Amanda Quist, Director of Choral Activities; University of Miami "Conductor vs. Cooking Appliance: Creating Meaning through Temporal Flexibility," Jake Runestad, Composer & Conductor "Recruit from a Position of Strength," Ethan Sperry, Professor; Portland State University "The Improvising Choral Director," Patrice Madura Ward-Steinman, Professor; Indiana University "Honoring Female Changing Voices," Bridget Sweet, Associate Professor; University of Illinois "Teaching Traditional South African Music," Michael Joseph Barrett, Composer & Conductor; University of Pretoria "Leadership through a New Lens," Hilary Apfelstadt, Professor Emerita; The University of Toronto "The Choral Warm-Up Period," Anthony T. Leach, Professor Emeritus; The Pennsylvania State University "Rethinking Gender in the Choral Context," Joshua Palkki, Assistant Professor; California State University, Long Beach "Involving Students in Repertoire Selection," Janet Galván, Director of Choral Activities; Ithaca College  Choral-Orchestral Repertoire : A Conductor's Guide, Omnibus Edition English | 2019 | ISBN: 1442244666 | 747 Pages | ePUB | 1.34 MB by Jonathan D. Green and David W. Oertel |
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