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A Conductor's Guide to Choral-Orchestral Works - Part I (Paperback): Jonathan D. Green A Conductor's Guide to Choral-Orchestral Works - Part I (Paperback)
Jonathan D. Green
R2,328 Discovery Miles 23 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Now in paperback. This innovative survey of large choral-orchestral works written between 1900 and 1972 and containing some English text examines eighty-nine works, from Elgar's Dream of Gerontius to Bernstein's Mass. For each work, the author provides a biography of the composer, complete instrumentation, text sources, editions, availability of performing materials, performance issues, discography, and bibliographies of the composer and the work. Based upon direct score study, each work has been evaluated in terms of potential performance problems, rehearsal issues, and level of difficulty for both choir and orchestra. When present, solo roles are described. The forty-nine composers represented include Samuel Barber, Arthur Bliss, Benjamin Britten, Henry Cowell, Frederick Delius, R. Nathaniel Dett, Gerald Finzi, Howard Hanson, Roy Harris, Paul Hindemith, Ulysses Kay, Constant Lambert, Peter Mennin, Gunther Schuller, William Schumann, Michael Tippett, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, and Healey Willan. Written as a field guide for conductors and anyone else involved in programming concerts for choir and orchestra, this text should prove a useful source of new repertoire ideas and an invaluable aid to rehearsal preparation. Cloth edition first published in 1994.

Janacek - Glagolitic Mass (Hardcover, New): Paul Wingfield Janacek - Glagolitic Mass (Hardcover, New)
Paul Wingfield
R1,599 Discovery Miles 15 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Glagolitic Mass, written between 1926 and 1927, is not only one of Janacek's most important works: it is also a masterpiece of the twentieth-century choral repertoire. In this fascinating account of the work and its history, Paul Wingfield brings together material from early articles and reviews, letters and manuscripts which form a comprehensive account of the work's genesis and performance history. The author also provides a thorough revision of the Old Church Slavonic text along with English translation, and reconstructs Janacek's 'ideal' version of the work - far more exciting than the less adventurous rearrangement currently performed. Chapters on the music itself offer a full synopsis of the Glagolitic Mass, an in-depth discussion of its musical organisation and a selection of key interpretations of the piece by Janacek and others.

Janacek - Glagolitic Mass (Book, New): Paul Wingfield Janacek - Glagolitic Mass (Book, New)
Paul Wingfield
R1,015 Discovery Miles 10 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Glagolitic Mass, written between 1926 and 1927, is not only one of Janacek's most important works: it is also a masterpiece of the twentieth-century choral repertoire. In this fascinating account of the work and its history, Paul Wingfield brings together material from early articles and reviews, letters and manuscripts which form a comprehensive account of the work's genesis and performance history. The author also provides a thorough revision of the Old Church Slavonic text along with English translation, and reconstructs Janacek's 'ideal' version of the work - far more exciting than the less adventurous rearrangement currently performed. Chapters on the music itself offer a full synopsis of the Glagolitic Mass, an in-depth discussion of its musical organisation and a selection of key interpretations of the piece by Janacek and others.

Twentieth-Century Choral Music - An Annotated Bibliography of Music Suitable for Use by High School Choirs (Hardcover,... Twentieth-Century Choral Music - An Annotated Bibliography of Music Suitable for Use by High School Choirs (Hardcover, Revised)
Perry J. White
R2,252 Discovery Miles 22 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a critical bibliography of choral compositions accessible to the high school choir, representing major composers and stylistic trends during this century. The 1990 edition of the bibliography includes over 360 titles, providing a convenient sourcebook for secondary school choral directors, choral methods classes, and collegiate choral directors to use in building repertoire for their programs.

The Composer's Point of View - Essays on Twentieth-Century Choral Music by Those Who Wrote It (Hardcover, New edition):... The Composer's Point of View - Essays on Twentieth-Century Choral Music by Those Who Wrote It (Hardcover, New edition)
Robert Stephen Hines
R2,826 Discovery Miles 28 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A collection of essays by 20th-century American, English, and European composers in which each composer discusses a large choral work or works he has written, along with the principles that guided the composition.

The Embodiment of Authority - Perspectives on Performances (Hardcover, New edition): Taina Riikonen, Marjaana Virtanen The Embodiment of Authority - Perspectives on Performances (Hardcover, New edition)
Taina Riikonen, Marjaana Virtanen
R2,191 Discovery Miles 21 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Performance is a forum for social action, embodied interaction and shared authority. Recently, as the various acts and agencies surrounding a performance have become the target of scholarly interest, the complex split between theory and practice has been challenged, as has the idea of a singular, disembodied authorial ownership of the socio-material meanings surrounding performance. The Embodiment of Authority approaches performance, issues of authority and negotiated knowledge production through multi-material research data and interdisciplinary methods. The book discusses the relationship between authorial questions and performances via the following topics: shared authorities, ontologies of art work, diverse roles of rehearsals in the performance process, and embodied knowledge.

The Cambridge Companion to Choral Music - Cambridge Companions to Music (Book, New): Andre de Quadros The Cambridge Companion to Choral Music - Cambridge Companions to Music (Book, New)
Andre de Quadros
R978 R800 Discovery Miles 8 000 Save R178 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Choral music is now undoubtedly the foremost genre of participatory music making, with more people singing in choirs than ever before. Written by a team of leading international practitioners and scholars, this Companion addresses the history of choral music, its emergence and growth worldwide and its professional practice. The volume sets out a historical survey of the genre and follows with a kaleidoscopic bird's eye view of choral music from all over the world. Chapters vividly portray the emergence and growth of choral music from its Quranic antecedents in West and Central Asia to the baroque churches of Latin America, representing its global diversity. Uniquely, the book includes a pedagogical section where several leading choral musicians write about the voice and the inner workings of a choir and give their professional insights into choral practice. This Companion will appeal to choral scholars, directors and performers alike.

Sound Advice - Becoming A Better Children's Choir Conductor (Paperback): Jean Ashworth Bartle Sound Advice - Becoming A Better Children's Choir Conductor (Paperback)
Jean Ashworth Bartle
R1,326 Discovery Miles 13 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sound Advice is a valuable resource for college students, beginning teachers, and experienced conductors of children's choirs. It covers the vast array of skills needed by today's conductor and will benefit all choir directors who want their choirs to reach a higher level of artistry. This book will be useful on many levels: for the college student studying the child voice and elementary teaching methods; for the teacher beginning to direct choirs in schools, synagogues, churches and communities; for experienced children's choir directors who wish to know more about orchestral repertoire for treble voices, conducting an orchestra, and preparing a children's choir to sing a major work with a professional orchestra. The underlying educational philosophy is sound; the author sees development of musicianship through singing as the primary goal of a children's choir program. This philosophy differs dramatically from the traditional concept of the conductor as all-knowing and the singers as receptacles. An outstanding aspect of the book is how the author leads the reader to an understanding of how to teach musicianship. Developing literacy in the choral setting is a mysterious, amorphous process to many conductors, but the author clearly outlines this important process with practical suggestions, well-documented examples, and a clear reading style which will reach readers on many levels. The comprehensive repertoire, skill-building sheets, and programs for all types of children's choirs will provide teachers with immediate and highly valuable resources.

The Makers of the Sacred Harp (Paperback): David Warren Steel The Makers of the Sacred Harp (Paperback)
David Warren Steel; As told to Richard H Hulan
R671 Discovery Miles 6 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This authoritative reference work investigates the roots of the Sacred Harp, the central collection of the deeply influential and long-lived southern tradition of shape-note singing. Where other studies of the Sacred Harp have focused on the sociology of present-day singers and their activities, David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan concentrate on the regional culture that produced the Sacred Harp in the nineteenth century and delve deeply into history of its authors and composers. They trace the sources of every tune and text in the Sacred Harp, from the work of B. F. White, E. J. King, and their west Georgia contemporaries who helped compile the original collection in 1844 to the contributions by various composers to the 1936 to 1991 editions. The Makers of the Sacred Harp also includes analyses of the textual influences on the music--including metrical psalmody, English evangelical poets, American frontier preachers, camp meeting hymnody, and revival choruses--and essays placing the Sacred Harp as a product of the antebellum period with roots in religious revivalism. Drawing on census reports, local histories, family Bibles and other records, rich oral interviews with descendants, and Sacred Harp Publishing Company records, this volume reveals new details and insights about the history of this enduring American musical tradition.

Choral Music in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover): Nick Strimple Choral Music in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
Nick Strimple
R762 Discovery Miles 7 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

(Amadeus). By the author of the critically acclaimed Choral Music in the Twentieth Century, this volume is an indispensable resource for choral conductors, a valuable guide for choral singers and other music lovers, and an essential text for educators and their students. As with his first book, Nick Strimple reviews 100 years of choral music literature, offering a straightforward text that is gratifying and enlightening. Strimple covers repertory by Beethoven, Brahms, Verdi, Faure, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Bruch, Mahler, and lesser figures. The text is illustrated with photos and musical examples, and appendices include works lists organized by type of chorus and accompaniment.

Choral Masterworks - A Listener's Guide (Paperback): Michael Steinberg Choral Masterworks - A Listener's Guide (Paperback)
Michael Steinberg
R656 Discovery Miles 6 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Michael Steinberg's highly successful listener's guides--The Symphony and The Concerto--have been universally praised for their blend of captivating biography, crystal clear musical analysis, and delightful humor. Now Steinberg follows these two greatly admired volumes with Choral Masterworks, the only such guide available to this most popular of musical forms.
Here are more than fifty illuminating essays on the classic choral masterworks, ranging from Handel's Messiah, Bach's Mass in B Minor, and Beethoven's Missa solemnis, to works by Haydn, Brahms, Mendelssohn, and many others. Steinberg spans the entire history of classical music, from such giants of the Romantic era as Verdi and Berlioz, to leading modern composers such as Elgar, Rachmaninoff, Vaughan Williams, and Stravinsky, to contemporary masters such as John Adams and Charles Wuorinen. For each piece, Steinberg includes a fascinating biographical account of the work's genesis, often spiced with wonderful asides. The author includes an astute musical analysis of each piece, one that casual music lovers can easily appreciate and that more serious fans will find invaluable. The book also provides basic information such as the various movements of the work, the organization of the chorus and orchestra, and brief historical notes on early performances.
More than twenty million Americans perform regularly in choirs or choruses. Choral Masterworks will appeal not only to concert goers and CD collectors, but also to this vast multitude of choral performers, an especially engaged and active community.
"What sets Steinberg's writing apart is its appealing mixture of impregnable authority (he knows this music) and purelypersonal asides (by the end of the book, we know this man). Choral Masterworks can be read by anybody, from a professional musician to any young listener newly braced by the stoic pessimism of the Brahms 'German Requiem.'" --Washington Post Book World

Bach: The Mass in B Minor - The Great Catholic Mass (Paperback): George B. Stauffer Bach: The Mass in B Minor - The Great Catholic Mass (Paperback)
George B. Stauffer
R1,371 Discovery Miles 13 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this book George B. Stauffer explores the music and complex history of Bach's last and possibly greatest masterpiece. Stauffer examines the B-Minor Mass in greater detail than ever before, demonstrating for the first time Bach's reliance on contemporary models from the Dresden Mass repertory and his brilliantly innovative methods of unifying his immense composition. Musicians, music scholars, students, and music lovers will find in this engagingly written book a wealth of information about Bach's extraordinary choral work. Stauffer surveys the roots of the Mass Ordinary text and its treatment in settings known to Bach. He looks at the events that led to the writing of the B-Minor Mass and places the work within the context of the composer's late style. In three deeply informed chapters, Stauffer considers the individual sections of the Mass--the Kyrie and Gloria, the Credo, and the Sanctus and Agnus Dei. The book also traces the history of the work after Bach's death, addresses specific issues of performance practice, and investigates the qualities that give the B-Minor Mass its universal appeal.

The Confident Choir - A Handbook for Leaders of Group Singing (Hardcover): Michael Bonshor The Confident Choir - A Handbook for Leaders of Group Singing (Hardcover)
Michael Bonshor
R3,216 Discovery Miles 32 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Confident Choir is an exploration of conditions affecting the confidence levels in singers of all levels to create an accessible synthesis of the psychological models and offer practical confidence-building strategies for conductors, teachers, community musicians, and workshop leaders. Michael Bonshor combines his experience as a singing teacher and choral director with a series of in-depth interviews that give an intimate depiction of the challenges faced by the contemporary choral singer. These insights provide the basis for a range of suggested techniques to bolster confidence and reduce anxiety in the group-singing context. This book is primarily designed as a guide for leaders of amateur group singing activities and is relevant to choirs of all sizes and genres. The content will appeal to singers, teachers, and choir leaders; students and scholars in the fields of choral research, community music, music psychology, and adult education; and educators training the musical leaders of the future.

The Confident Choir - A Handbook for Leaders of Group Singing (Paperback): Michael Bonshor The Confident Choir - A Handbook for Leaders of Group Singing (Paperback)
Michael Bonshor
R1,501 Discovery Miles 15 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Confident Choir is an exploration of conditions affecting the confidence levels in singers of all levels to create an accessible synthesis of the psychological models and offer practical confidence-building strategies for conductors, teachers, community musicians, and workshop leaders. Michael Bonshor combines his experience as a singing teacher and choral director with a series of in-depth interviews that give an intimate depiction of the challenges faced by the contemporary choral singer. These insights provide the basis for a range of suggested techniques to bolster confidence and reduce anxiety in the group-singing context. This book is primarily designed as a guide for leaders of amateur group singing activities and is relevant to choirs of all sizes and genres. The content will appeal to singers, teachers, and choir leaders; students and scholars in the fields of choral research, community music, music psychology, and adult education; and educators training the musical leaders of the future.

The Show Choir Handbook (Paperback): Alan L., Alder, Thalia M. Mulvihill The Show Choir Handbook (Paperback)
Alan L., Alder, Thalia M. Mulvihill
R1,590 Discovery Miles 15 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With the popularity of television shows such as Glee, American Idol, and The Voice, show choirs have become a vibrant component of college and high school music programs. Music teachers must not only know how to teach choral singing for popular music, but also be versed in show design and production. In The Show Choir Handbook, Alan L. Alder and Thalia M. Mulvihill address both song technique and show presentation, giving show choir directors the full set of tools they need for successful performances. The Show Choir Handbook is a resource for current and future music educators who administer show choirs. With most literature on the topic either out of date or focused on the teaching techniques limited to vocal jazz (drawing on the choral genre's origins as "swing choirs"), instructors are in dire need of a resource that addresses music produced by publishers and choral arrangers.

Before the Singing - Structuring Children's Choirs for Success (Paperback): Barbara Tagg Before the Singing - Structuring Children's Choirs for Success (Paperback)
Barbara Tagg
R1,425 Discovery Miles 14 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

All children must have an opportunity to share the joy of choral music participation - whether in school, church, or community choirs. What happens before the singing begins, is critical to supporting, sustaining, and nurturing choirs to give every child the opportunity to experience the wonder of choral singing. Based on years of experience conducting and teaching, Barbara Tagg brings a wealth of practical information about ways of organizing choirs. From classroom choirs, to mission statements, boards of directors, commissioning, auditioning, and repertoire, Before the Singing will inspire new ways of thinking about how choirs organize their daily tasks. The collaborative community that surrounds a choir includes conductors, music educators, church choir directors, board members, volunteers, staff, administrators, and university students in music education and nonprofit arts management degree programs. For all these, Tagg offers a wealth of knowledge about creating a positive environment to support artistry, creativity, dedication, and a commitment to striving for excellence.

Mozart und seine Saenger - Am Beispiel der "Entfuehrung aus dem Serail" (German, Paperback, New edition): Christiane Schumann Mozart und seine Saenger - Am Beispiel der "Entfuehrung aus dem Serail" (German, Paperback, New edition)
Christiane Schumann
R3,272 Discovery Miles 32 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Anhand der Entfuhrung aus dem Serail wird systematisch aufgezeigt, wie sich das markante Stimmprofil der Besetzung der Urauffuhrung 1782 am Nationaltheater in Wien darstellt. Indem Mozart der Virtuositat und dem Stimmumfang seiner Erstbesetzung (Catarina Cavalieri, Valentin Adamberger, Ernst Dauer, Therese Teyber und Ludwig Fischer) in ausserordentlichem Masse entgegenkommt, sprengt er gleichermassen den musikalischen Rahmen der Gattung des Singspiels. Das musikalisch-kunstlerische Ergebnis des Zusammentreffens von Mozart und "seinen" Sangern ist eine gluckliche Synthese zwischen der Leistungsfahigkeit der Sanger und der Inspiration des Komponisten. Die Partitur wird sichtbares Zeugnis von Mozarts Kunst, fur Stimmen zu schreiben. So kann das Werk als Musterbeispiel fur eine gegenseitige kunstlerische Befruchtung gelten.

English Choral Practice, 1400-1650 - Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice, 5 (Paperback, Revised): John Morehen English Choral Practice, 1400-1650 - Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice, 5 (Paperback, Revised)
John Morehen
R1,643 Discovery Miles 16 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first book to survey the performing practices in English choral music in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including the period of the English Reformation. The essays, all written by specialists in the field, consider in depth such areas as the growth and development of the 'church' choir, related issues of vocal tessitura, performing pitch, the systems of pronunciation appropriate for Latin- and English-texted music, and the day-to-day training of choristers. There is also an investigation of the local circumstances under which many of the important manuscripts of the period were compiled, which reveals an unsuspectedly close interrelationship between domestic music and music for the church. In addition, a study of surviving sources reveals that they give little more than a general guide as to their composers' and copyists' intentions.

Te Deum in D (Latin, Book): Henry Purcell Te Deum in D (Latin, Book)
Henry Purcell
R193 R154 Discovery Miles 1 540 Save R39 (20%) Out of stock
Praise Ye the Lord, Ye Children - For SATB Unaccompanied (Sheet music): Christopher Tye Praise Ye the Lord, Ye Children - For SATB Unaccompanied (Sheet music)
Christopher Tye; Volume editing by Peter Le Huray, David Willcocks
R94 Discovery Miles 940 Out of stock
Missa O Quam Gloroisum (Latin, Book): Tomas Luis De Victoria Missa O Quam Gloroisum (Latin, Book)
Tomas Luis De Victoria
R193 R154 Discovery Miles 1 540 Save R39 (20%) Out of stock
A Boy Was Born - For SATB Unaccompanied (Sheet music): Benjamin Britten A Boy Was Born - For SATB Unaccompanied (Sheet music)
Benjamin Britten
R151 Discovery Miles 1 510 Out of stock
Twas in the Moon of Wintertime (Sheet music): J. Alban HINTON Twas in the Moon of Wintertime (Sheet music)
J. Alban HINTON
R92 Discovery Miles 920 Out of stock

for unison voices and piano with optional descant recorders and optional chime bars

Alleluya Psallat (Sheet music): William Mathias Alleluya Psallat (Sheet music)
William Mathias
R90 Discovery Miles 900 Out of stock
Mass in B-Flat Major - Orch. (Latin, Book): Franz Schubert Mass in B-Flat Major - Orch. (Latin, Book)
Franz Schubert
R239 R191 Discovery Miles 1 910 Save R48 (20%) Out of stock
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