Intonation exercises for choirs. By James Jordan; Matthew Mehaffey. For SATB Cho...(+)
Intonation exercises for
choirs. By James Jordan;
Matthew Mehaffey. For
SATB Chorus. Music
Education. Instructional.
24 pages. Published by
GIA Publications.
SATB choir, SSAA choir, or TTBB choir SKU: GI.G-9692 Exercises to Buil...(+)
SATB choir, SSAA choir,
or TTBB choir
SKU:
GI.G-9692
Exercises to Build
Choral Musicianship.
Composed by Dean Luethi.
This edition: Director's
edition. Music Education.
Octavo. 54 pages. GIA
Publications #9692.
Published by GIA
Publications (GI.G-9692).
ISBN
9781622773510.
This
book of versatile,
pedagogically based
choral warm-ups helps
conductors take full
advantage of this
important time in every
rehearsal, providing
tools for assessment,
musicianship, and
ensemble unity at the
same time singers are
warming up their voices.
The exercises in Aligning
Voices are organized into
nine chapters, each
focusing on a different
area of choral technique:
Rhythm Brilliance
Intonation Balance
Dynamics Consonants
Beginning Consonants
Diphthongs and Ending
Consonants Vowels Each
warm-up contains two or
more parts, allowing the
director to work toward
improving choral sound in
a texture similar to that
of the repertoire.
Moreover, author Dean
Luethi provides every
warm-up in three
voicings—SATB,
SSAA, and TTBB—and
sequentially organizes
them by difficulty level.
In addition, each section
begins by defining the
objective for each
exercise and offering
practical solutions for
many of the common
challenges choirs face in
each area. A companion
student edition that
contains only the music
notation for each warm-up
exercise is also
available (G-9692S).
These exercises go well
beyond simply warming up
the voice. This resource
is a must-have for all
choral directors looking
to make the most of their
warm-up time. Dean Luethi
is Associate Professor
and Director of the
School of Music at
Washington State
University. In addition
to his work at the
university, he is a
frequently sought after
conductor, adjudicator,
and clinician, and he has
been published in the
Choral Journal and Music
Educators Journal. Watch
this introductory video
on Dean Luethi's
(Lee-thee) book Aligning
Voices: Exercises to
Build Choral
Musicianship.
SATB choir (a cappella), percussion SKU: LO.15-4084H Composed by Brad Nix...(+)
SATB choir (a cappella),
percussion
SKU:
LO.15-4084H
Composed
by Brad Nix. Concert,
General. Heritage Music
Press #15/4084H.
Published by Heritage
Music Press
(LO.15-4084H).
ISBN
9780787789930.
Util
izing the expressive
nature of vowels and
consonances, this piece
is a extraordinary
exercise in musical
expression through
diction and choral
technique. The text
consists of made up words
that are inspired by
various world languages
and historic tradition.
Brad Nix has set this
text with a driving,
contemporary groove that
is propelled by the
percussion ostinato.
Allow these words to
inspire imagination in
your performance as you
choose how to interpret
in musical
performance!
SATB choir & baritone
voice solo, tambourine &
bells, with optional
flute & cello - Medium
Difficult
SKU:
PL.9006
Composed by
Richard Proulx. Choral,
Chant, Festival, General.
Octavo. Paraclete Press
#9006. Published by
Paraclete Press
(PL.9006).
Te
Deum Laudamus...by
Richard Proulx is a
setting of Dryden's
translation, itself a
most interesting
comparison with the
Prayer Book version, for
SATB choir with some
divisi, accompanied
solely by handbells and
tambourine, with optional
flute and cello parts
(doubling the soprano and
bass vocal lines
respectively). Much use
is made of the
traditional chant of the
Te Deum, and there are
one or two passages for
solo bartione; an
intriguing exercise, and
one that makes a
worthwhile alternative to
more traditional ways of
singing the Te Deum.
--Michael Fleming.
Composed by
Paul Ritchie. Ordinary
Time 19 C. Choral.
Sacred. Octavo. 4 pages.
GIA Publications #7401.
Published by GIA
Publications (GI.G-7401).
UPC: 785147740100.
English. Text Source:
Anonymous, 18th c., New
Hampshire. Text by
Anonymous.
What a
lovely melody—at
once new and familiar!
The arrangement is not
complicated, but everyone
will have to exercise
good tuning throughout,
especially the two
soloists. In the end, any
effort you put into the
piece will surely be well
spent.
Looking Up Chorale SATB SATB, Piano St Rose Music Publishing
Choir, Piano Accompaniment (SATB Choir) SKU: HL.277282 SATB and Piano ...(+)
Choir, Piano
Accompaniment (SATB
Choir)
SKU:
HL.277282
SATB and
Piano Vocal Score.
Composed by Nico Muhly.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Softcover. 60
pages. St. Rose Music
#SRO10015201. Published
by St. Rose Music
(HL.277282).
UPC:
840126915006. 6.75x10.5
inches.
Program
note:
Looking Up
is a piece for large
chorus and orchestra, and
is in three sections,
played without pause. In
the 16th century, a
variety of psalters in
meter were printed in
England, with the idea of
making psalm-singing
something that could
happen easily at home,
with the rhyming meter
being an aid to
memorization. These
translations are
wonderful exercises in
brevity and sometimes
clumsy rhymemaking, and
were usually prefaced by
a lengthy explanation as
to their merits; the
title of one of the first
such volumes in English
is: The Psalter of Dauid
newely translated into
Englysh metre in such
sort that it maye the
more decently, and wyth
more delyte of the mynde,
be reade and songe of al
men. I thought it would
be appropriate to set one
of these introductions,
and the first section of
Looking Up sets the
preface to Thomas
Ravenscroft's psalter
(1621), in which he
writes: “The
singing of Psalmes (assay
the Doctors) comforteth
the sorrowfull, pacifieth
the angry, strengtheneth
the weake, humbleth the
proud, gladdeth the
humble, stirres up the
slow, reconcileth
enemies, lifteth up the
heart to heavenly things,
and uniteth the Creature
to his
Creator.”
It
begins meditatively, but
eventually grows agitated
and fervent, with a
vision of the
“quire of Angels
and Saints”
“redoubling
anddescanting” - an
ecstatic and terrifying
vision of the skies
opening up. Ravenscroft
then encourages the use
of instrumental musicfor
worship, at which point,
a long, acrobatic
orchestral interlude with
jagged edges antagonizes
the choir, who sing a
kind of private, anxious
meditation on two
pitches.
One of
the most delicious
biblical texts is an
Apocryphal prayer known
as the Benedicite or the
Prayer of the Three
Children (the same who
were rescued by an angel
after King Nebuchadnezzar
tried to have them burnt
in an oven for not bowing
to his image). The text
is repetitive, obsessive,
and a gift to composers -
each line is an
invocation of an element
of the natural world,
followed by the phrase,
“blesse ye the
Lord, praise him &
magnify him for
ever.” In Looking
Up, the setting begins
with three solo voices,
and then grows to include
the whole choir,
itemizing the whole of
creation. The idea that
these boys are spared
from the furnace and then
five minutes later are
saying, “O ye the
fire and warming heate,
blesse ye the
Lord...” has always
felt very loaded to me,
and the orchestra plays
with this conflict
between joyful praise and
a more terrible (in the
16th-century sense)
awefor the
divine.
The text
for the third, and
shortest, section is
taken from Christopher
Smart's (1722-1771) A
Song to David,
purportedly written
during his confinement in
a mental asylum. This ode
to King David points out
how David, as the author
of some of the Psalms,
observes the whole world
from the
“clustering
spheres” to the
“nosegay in the
vale.&rdquo.
SATB choir SKU: GI.G-0953 Composed by C. Alexander Peloquin. This edition...(+)
SATB choir
SKU:
GI.G-0953
Composed by
C. Alexander Peloquin.
This edition: SATB
edition. Choral warmups.
Sacred. Book. 55 pages.
GIA Publications #0953.
Published by GIA
Publications (GI.G-0953).
Text by: Alexander
Peloquin. Text by C.
Alexander
Peloquin.
Choral
Precision PELOQUIN A
series of choral
exercises. SATB.
SATB Choir a cappella SKU: BT.SCHBB5401188 A selection from the 17 stu...(+)
SATB Choir a cappella
SKU:
BT.SCHBB5401188
A
selection from the 17
studies for choir.
Composed by Hugo
Herrmann. Studies &
Exercises. Score Only. 20
pages. Bote & Bock
#SCHBB5401188. Published
by Bote & Bock
(BT.SCHBB5401188).
SATB SKU: SU.80101439 For SATB. Composed by Carson Cooman. Vocal/C...(+)
SATB
SKU:
SU.80101439
For
SATB. Composed by
Carson Cooman.
Vocal/Choral, Sacred
Choral. Choral Octavo.
Zimbel Press #80101439.
Published by Zimbel Press
(SU.80101439).
Finding You
(2011) is a setting of an
affirmative text by the
American poet Robert
Creeley (1926-2005). It
was commissioned by the
Holden Choirs at Harvard
University for use at the
university's commencement
exercises.
Instrumentation: SATB
Duration: 2011 Composed:
2'30 Published by: Zimbel
Press.
SATB choir, organ accompaniment - Early intermediate SKU: GI.G-7591 Compo...(+)
SATB choir, organ
accompaniment - Early
intermediate
SKU:
GI.G-7591
Composed by
Paul Nicholson.
Eastertide, Easter 5 B.
Choral. Sacred. Octavo. 8
pages. GIA Publications
#7591. Published by GIA
Publications (GI.G-7591).
UPC: 785147759102.
English. Text Source: 1
John 3:18–19,
adapt. PN. Scripture: 1
John
3:18–19.
An
exuberant, 5/8 setting of
a simple message from the
first letter of John.
Brief passages for the
organ overlap with choral
phrases that move
primarily in step-wise
motion. This short piece
has the added benefit of
exercising the intonation
of your singers through
unison and
dissonance—without
having to invest hours of
precious rehearsal
time!
Alleluia, excita Chorale SATB SATB A Cappella - Intermédiaire Galaxy Music Corporation
Composed by Jonathan Adams. Advent, 21st Century. Duration 1 minute, 34 secon...(+)
Composed by Jonathan
Adams.
Advent, 21st Century.
Duration 1 minute, 34
seconds. Galaxy Music
Corporation #1.3497.
Published by Galaxy Music
Corporation
22 Complete Warm-Up Routines SATB. Composed by Bertrand Grö and ger. Ch...(+)
22 Complete Warm-Up
Routines
SATB. Composed by
Bertrand Grö
and ger. Choral
Collection.
Choral, Classical.
Softcover.
Schott Music #ED22867.
Published by Schott Music