So You Want to Sing Chamber Music

So You Want to Sing Chamber Music

Author: Susan Hochmiller

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-12-21

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1538105179

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Vocal chamber music encompasses a wide range of music composed for anything from a solo to twelve voices and instruments. Performing chamber music offers the singer a unique opportunity to increase collaboration with instrumentalists and improve technique, musicianship, artistry, and communication. So You Want to Sing Chamber Music offers a comprehensive guide to learning, rehearsing, and performing in this genre. The book explores such critical skills as choosing repertoire that is appropriate for one’s voice type, communicating with wind players and string players, preparing for a successful rehearsal, performance style, staging considerations, and recital programming. Also included are suggestions on using vocal chamber music as a pedagogical tool in the voice studio, alongside recommendations for listening and further reading. Additional chapters by Scott McCoy and Wendy LeBorgne address universal questions of voice science, pedagogy, and vocal health. The So You Want to Sing seriesis produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing Chamber Music features online supplemental material on the NATS website. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources


Twentieth-Century Chamber Music

Twentieth-Century Chamber Music

Author: James McCalla

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-03

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1135887063

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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Vocal Chamber Music

Vocal Chamber Music

Author: Barbara Winchester

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-03-31

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1135865779

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This invaluable resource is a revised edition of an essential index to vocal works composed for at least one solo voice and one instrument (other than piano or guitar) up to twelve solo voices and twelve solo instruments. The book includes a brief introduction on how to teach vocal chamber music, with tips on running a successful ensemble. Vocal Chamber Music: A Performer's Guide, 2nd Edition is a much needed and important book for voice teachers, singers, music directors and music libraries, for information that is normally difficult to find and usually requires assembling from various sources.


Mozart's Music of Friends

Mozart's Music of Friends

Author: Edward Klorman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-04-21

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1107093651

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This study analyzes chamber music from Mozart's time within its highly social salon-performance context.


Bach's Major Vocal Works

Bach's Major Vocal Works

Author: Markus Rathey

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 030021720X

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"Every year, Johann Sebastian Bach's major vocal works are performed to mark liturgical milestones in the Christian calendar. Written by a renowned Bach scholar, this concise and accessible book provides an introduction to the music and cultural contexts of the composer's most beloved masterpieces, including the Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, and St. John Passion. In addition to providing historical information, each chapter highlights significant aspects--such as the theology of love--of a particular piece. This penetrating volume is the first to treat the vocal works as a whole, showing how the compositions were embedded in their original performative context within the liturgy as well as discussing Bach's musical style, from the detailed level of individual movements to the overarching aspects of each work. Published in the approach to Easter when many of these vocal works are performed, this outstanding volume will appeal to casual concertgoers and scholars alike." -- Publisher's description


So You Want to Sing CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music)

So You Want to Sing CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music)

Author: Matthew Hoch

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1538103621

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So You Want to Sing CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music) presents a compendium of approaches to non-classical singing with an emphasis on vocal technique and function. Over the past twenty years, approaches to singing CCM have exploded, resulting in many schools of technique. So You Want to Sing CCM is the first book to bring these trademarked methods—such as Estill Voice Training™, Somatic Voicework™, Complete Vocal Technique™, Voiceworks™, and the Vocal Power Method™—together in a single volume. So You Want to Sing CCM opens the reader to the vast world of contemporary commercial music through the teachings of the world’s best-known practicing CCM pedagogues. Supplemental chapters by Matthew Edwards, Darren Wicks, and editor Matthew Hoch offer additional commentary on CCM history and pedagogy while chapters by Scott McCoy, Wendy LeBorgne, and Matthew Edwards investigate voice science, vocal health, and audio enhancement technology. The So You Want to Sing series is produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing CCM features online supplemental material. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources


Intimate Music

Intimate Music

Author: John H. Baron

Publisher: Pendragon Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 9781576471005

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This is the first comprehensive overview of instrumental chamber music from the 16th century to the present. There are comparisons of different genres, composers, and periods. Situations for chamber music at different moments in history are brought into a continuum, and all aspects of chamber music are placed into perspective. A History of the Idea of Chamber Music is chronologically organized at the most general level. Beyond that, national schools figure prominently, as well as genres and personalities. Throughout this book the composition of chamber music, the performance of chamber music, and the social, economic, political, and aesthetic conditions for chamber music have been considered per se and as they interact. (From the Introduction)


French Vocal Literature

French Vocal Literature

Author: Georgine Resick

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2017-12-22

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1442258454

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French Vocal Literature: Repertoire in Context introduces singers to the history and performance concerns of a vast body of French songs from the twelfth century to the present, focusing on works for solo voice or small vocal ensembles with piano or organ accompaniment, suitable for recitals, concerts, and church performances. Georgine Resick presents vocal repertoire within the context of trends and movements of other artistic disciplines, such as poetry, literature, dance, painting, and decorative arts, as well as political and social currents pertinent to musical evolution. Developments in French style and genre—and comparisons among individual composers and national styles—are traced through a network of musical influence. French Vocal Literature is ideally suited for voice teachers and coaches as well as student and professional performers. The companion website, frenchvocalliterature.com, provides publication information, a discography, links to online recordings and scores, a chronology of events pertinent to music, a genealogy of royal dynasties, and a list of governmental regimes.