Sound Advice: Becoming A Better Children's Choir Conductor

Contents

• Foreword by Sir David Willcocks
• Introduction
• Chapter 1, The Formative Years
• Chapter 2, Training Eight- to Fourteen-Year-Old Children to Sing
• Chapter 3, Checklist for Ideal Rehearsals and Preparation for Complete Artistic Performances
• Chapter 4, Developing Literacy
• Chapter 5, Discipline
• Chapter 6, The Importance of Organization
• Chapter 7, The Audition Process: Know Your Children, Your Parents, and Your Community
• Chapter 8, Things They Didn't Teach You at Music School
• Chapter 9, Conducting an Orchestra
• Chapter 10, Preparing the Children to Sing a Major Work with Orchestra
• Chapter 11, Recording, Commissioning, and Touring
• Chapter 12, From the Children
• Appendix 1, Warm-up Vocal Exercises
• Appendix 2, Audition Form
• Appendix 3, Sample Programs from Toronto Children's Chorus
• Appendix 4A, Criteria for Choosing Repertoire Appropriate for Children
• Appendix 4B, Repertoire Lists for Toronto Children's Chorus
• Appendix 5A, Concepts to Be Learned by the End of Training Choir I, Training Choir II, and Training Choir III
• Appendix 5B, Memos for the First Four Rehearsals
• Appendix 6, Sight-Singing Curriculum Outline for the Toronto Children's Chorus
• Appendix 7, Rounds All Children Should Know
• Appendix 8, Treble Choir Repertoire with Orchestral Accompaniment
• Appendix 9, Repertoire Recommended List
• Appendix 10, Toronto Children's Chorus Compact Discs
• Appendix 11, The Seating Plan
• Appendix 12, Examples of Four-Measure Sight-Reading Passages
• Appendix 13, Transposing and Nontransposing Instruments
• Bibliography
• Index