40 Fun Warm-Ups Using Songs from Across the United States. Keeping singers in our ensembles excited and energized during the warm-up process is a consistent hurdle for educators across the nation. By using songs that are indigenous to different parts of our country, teachers in choral classrooms can help students prepare their minds, bodies and voices while sharing a bit of our culture and history from different areas of the United States. All of the songs can be used with both inexperienced beginners and advanced singers. The lesson suggestions introduced with each song are intended to be aspringboard for teachers to modify and adapt to their own students' needs and skill levels. Each melody includes strategies that are accessible for those who are just learning how to use their voices, and also for those more sophisticated singers who enjoy a good challenge. Keeping singers in our ensembles excited and energized during the warm-up process is a consistent hurdle for educators across the nation. By using songs that are indigenous to different parts of our country, teachers in choral classrooms can help students prepare their minds, bodies and voices while sharing a bit of our culture and history from different areas of the United States. All of the songs can be used with both inexperienced beginners and advanced singers. The lesson suggestions introduced with each song are intended to be aspringboard for teachers to modify and adapt to their own students' needs and skill levels. Each melody includes strategies that are accessible for those who are just learning how to use their voices, and also for those more sophisticated singers who enjoy a good challenge. / Musique traditionnelle d'Amérique du Nord / Etude / Voix

Most vocal teachers have already discovered Jay's extremely popular Folk Songs for Solo Singers collections. And now Alfred is excited to offer another for vocal students and their Teachers! American Folk Songs for Solo Singers includes an excellent variety of solo material for recitals concerts and contests available in two voicings.  Titles include Bright Morning Stars Down in the Valley to Pray Honey Babe How Can I Keep from Singing' My Lord What a Morning Nine Hundred Miles Old Joe Clark Pretty Little Girl Shenandoah Simple Gifts Sometimes I Feel Like aMotherless Child Sun Don't Set in the Mornin' and The Water Is Wide.