A Cappella Warm-Ups: Mixed Choir a Cappella: Vocal Score

For Voice Body & Soul-This valuable resource is essential for every church choir director. These warm-ups and activities will help prepare voices bodies and spirits to share the Word through song. The opening prayers and meditations will help centeryour rehearsals. The vocal exercises will guide singers to produce a free and open tone develop clean articulation and diction improve resonance and intonation – all while singing inspirational words and passages. Thegroup activities will develop a camaraderie that every church choir should know. The enclosed enhanced audio CD provides a demonstration recording of each vocal exercise to use with full choir small group or individual practice plus printable reproducible projectable PDFs of each singer exercise. Use these meaningful exercises prayers and activities to enhance your music ministry at any level.

Warming up your choir has never been this much fun! These 18 educational exercises are written in a variety of styles based on American popular music including Swing Rock Latin and Cajun. Piano accompaniments are included but a CD (HL08201244) is also available for a great-sounding and stylistic accompaniment! These warm-ups can be used to improve intonation balance and blend enunciation and vowel unification and to extend vocal ranges. Can also be used creatively as the basis for group composition and movement exercises. With these fresh starts you're limited only by your imagination!

Collection. Whether you have a developing choir, elementary choir or even a beginning high school choir, music educators need quality and exciting choral literature for both male and female singers and the ever-changing vocal challenges of this age group. Two-part chorals are excellent tools to build bridges to the art of choral singing for young and inexperienced singers. They can also be valuable assessment tools for more experienced singers or at the beginning of the school year for new choirs. Let Music Live! Energetic and Inspiring Chorals for 2-Part Singers is designed to add energy, excitement and inspiration to rehearsal and performance. Ten gospel, Christmas/holiday, Latin settings, novelty, original and inspirational texts and folk and traditional songs fill this REPRODUCIBLE collection that can be used all year long. Rehearsal suggestions with warm-ups are included for each piece along with choreography and additional instrumentation for selected chorals. The online access to Full Performance and Accompaniment Only audio recordings and Singer PDF parts makes this collection a real budget stretcher!

Building Healthy Middle School Singers-As any school choir director knows change is the name of the game! A changing voice is just one of countless physiological and emotional changes that middle school students experience.Knowing the general limits of male and female changing voices as well as the specific capabilities of your students are two keys to building healthy-and happy!-middle school singers. This book is an accessible must-read resource for any middle-school choir director looking to foster stronger more capable musicians and offers 25 warm-up exercises along with customized grade-specific tips for using them along with free access to accompanying audio recordings.

Here is an appealing acoustic take on the 1984 pop hit by U2 featuring pulsing rhythms and warm vocal harmonies. Ideal for both concert choirs and pop groups.Duration: ca. 2:47.

Mixed and men's groups will both love this well-crafted setting of this 1964 pop hit from the Beatles' early years. Simple acoustic guitar makes a warm addition to the ensemble. Available: SATB TTB ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: Approx. 2:30.

Warm vocal harmonies shimmer above the lush piano accompaniment of this classic Leon Russell song from 1970 most memorably covered by The Carpenters. An excellent choice for concert and vocal jazz groups! Available separately:SATB SAB SSA and ShowTrax CD. Combo parts available as a digital download (tpt 1-2 tsx tbn syn gtr b drm) Duration ca. 4:45.