The Voice in Progress Friday, August 26, 2022
recommended by Jen Sper and Lora Moore, School Choral Music Specialists
The Voice in Progress: Developing Adolescent Voices by Dan Andersen
Emily Crocker writes: “Forty years ago, most vocal methods were aimed at high school students and up. Dan Andersens’s materials and methods remedy this situation and offer an excellent curriculum for the young voice, giving you the opportunity to reap the benefits of his forty years of successfully working with adolescent singers.”
There are 50 vocal warm up exercises and recorded piano accompaniments included with the purchase of the book. Chapters include:
1) Building the Adolescent Voice – Why we Warm up
2) Preparing the Adolescent Voice – How we warm up
3) Knowing the Adolescent Voice – Girls Changing voice & boys changing voice
4) Exercising the Adolescent Voice – Treble Choirs/Mixed Choirs/Tenor/Bass choirs.
The warm-ups are focused to:
1) Breathing, Beginning Phonation
2) Resonance, Placement & Tone Quality
3) Support, Diction Intonation, Flexibility, Dynamics and register transition.
A helpful index directs you so you can combine the warm-ups most needed when you need them.
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About the Authors:
Jen Sper is a Choral Music Specialist here at Stanton’s Sheet Music. A native of Cincinnati, she holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Baldwin Wallace College (now University) Conservatory of Music, and taught 7-12 choir, music theory, class piano, and drama in Southern Ohio before joining the Stanton’s team in 2006. An active choral singer and accompanist throughout the Central Ohio area, Jen can also often be found exploring the exciting restaurant, brewery, and theater scenes in Columbus, wandering through the local metro parks, visiting family around the Great Lakes, or at home with her very friendly cat.
Lora Moore joined the Stanton’s choral staff in July 2018. A former middle school and high school director of 32 years and a former church choir director of 20 years, she holds a Bachelor of Arts in Choral Music from Capital University and a Master’s of Arts in Choral Music from The Ohio State University. During the off hours, Lora enjoys scouting out new day trips in Ohio to balance what her budget allows for her frequent trips to New York City to visit family and take in a Broadway show or two!