Choral Warm-Up Materials for Building Beautiful Voices Friday, November 26, 2010
Looking for a way to add interest and variety to your choral warm-up routine. Stanton's Sheet Music recommends the resources below to help reinvigorate your rehearsals and contribute to your singers' musical development:
Building Beautiful Voices by Paul Nesheim and Weston Noble is a concise yet comprehensive study of vocal technique along with an extensive collection of related vocalises. The vocalises are presented in a manner that is “user-friendly,” complete with accompaniments and numerous transpositions. This book contains more than 60 different exercises, each designed to address specific vocal concepts. Whether you are a student of choral/vocal pedagogy, a beginning director or a veteran of many years in the classroom in need of new and fresh warm-ups to begin your daily rehearsals, this is the text for which you have been searching.
Bring some fun into your warm-up routine with Singing Tongue Twisters A-Z. This book and CD set contains 50 fun-filled and wacky warm-ups to improve pronunciation, vocal range and technique. Perfect for teachers and kids, this fun sing-a-long book contains singing tongue twisters of variable difficulty levels, read-a-long worksheets, and a 50 track sing-a-long CD. Singing Tongue Twisters is an excellent warm-up tool for choral groups and a fun practice workbook for individual singers.
Choir Builders encourages you to have fun with your choral warm-ups! With this collection of fifty-four inventive and educational songs and exercises, your choir will beg for more. Start out with the unison pieces and “build” to the more challenging exercises for 2-part, 3-part or 4-part treble or mixed voices. Use the demonstration CD for quick learning and with the accompaniment tracks, you’ll have hands-free, portable warm-ups at your fingertips every day. Developed and composed by the award-winning choral composer and master teacher Rollo Dilworth, Choir Builders will prove to be a “fun”damental way of improving and sustaining a quality choral sound with your performance groups. Also available is Choir Builders for Growing Voices, so you can start teaching proper vocal technique to younger singers.
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