A Handbook for Beginning Choral Educators

by Walter Lamble

Overview

"This book comes from a very fine music educator with exceptional
experience, who has common sense and a real understanding of what a beginning
teacher should know. The book puts into print issues that are widely discussed at
conventions and at conferences, and that are common knowledge for the experienced
teacher, but that are not covered in a music education class. It is a plain and
simple book, written in a language that is easy for anyone going into the profession
to understand. It makes valuable suggestions in just about every aspect of the role
of a choral music teacher." -- Michael Schwartzkopf, Professor of Music
Education, Indiana University School of Music

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253110237
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	06/16/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Walter Lamble is a retired choral educator with more than 30 years'
experience in the classroom. He has a Ph.D. in music education from the University
of Iowa.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Foreword
1. Getting Started
A.
Designing a Choral Music Program
B. Choosing and Purchasing
Music
C. Before School Begins
2. Choral Basics in the
Rehearsal
A. Warming up the Choir
B. The Unison Sound
C.
Vowels, Consonants, and Diphthongs
D. Choral Sound and Vocal
Production
3. The Academics of Rehearsal
A. Teaching
Sight-Singing
B. Presenting a Basic Sight-Singing Lesson
C.
Acquiring Basic Skills in the Choral Classroom
4. Important Related
Topics
A. The Boy's Changing Voice
B. Singing in Foreign
Languages
C. Popular Choral Music
5. The Extracurricular
Program
A. So You are Going to do a Musical
B. Travel, Parent
Groups, and Competitions
C. Popular Music Styles
6. Non-Choral
Concepts
A. Preparing a Budget
B. Preparing a Student for College
Music Study
C. Music Professional Organizations
D. Why Should
Music be in the High School Curriculum?
7. Fifty Things No One Ever Told
Me

Editorial Reviews

""This book comes from a very fine music educator with exceptional experience, who has common sense and a real understanding of what a beginning teacher should know. The book puts into print issues that are widely discussed at conventions and at conferences, and that are common knowledge for the experienced teacher, but that are not covered in a music education class. It is a plain and simple book, written in a language that is easy for anyone going into the profession to understand. It makes valuable suggestions in just about every aspect of the role of a choral music teacher.""

"This book comes from a very fine music educator with exceptional experience, who has common sense and a real understanding of what a beginning teacher should know. The book puts into print issues that are widely discussed at conventions and at conferences, and that are common knowledge for the experienced teacher, but that are not covered in a music education class. It is a plain and simple book, written in a language that is easy for anyone going into the profession to understand. It makes valuable suggestions in just about every aspect of the role of a choral music teacher."

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