附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263) and index.
FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; ONE: The Formative Years; TWO: Training Eight- to Fourteen-Year-Old Children to Sing; THREE: Checklist for Ideal Rehearsals and Preparation for Complete Artistic Performances; FOUR: Developing Literacy; FIVE: Discipline; SIX: The Importance of Organization; SEVEN: The Audition Process: Know Your Children, Your Parents, and Your Community; EIGHT: Things They Didn't Teach You at Music School; NINE: Conducting an Orchestra; TEN: Preparing the Children to Sing a Major Work with Orchestra; ELEVEN: Recording, Commissioning, and Touring; TWELVE: From the Children.
摘要:Always a vital part of community cultural life, children's choirs can be small amateur clubs or sophisticated arts organizations on a par with adult professional choirs and orchestras. Whatever a choir's size and ambitions, its director faces a formidable challenge. Jean Ashworth Bartle, director of the award-winning Toronto Children's Chorus, has collected her experience and wisdom in Sound Advice. In a clear and direct style, the book offers tips on basics such as conducting fun, effective rehearsals and advanced projects including recording and touring. Stressing that the choir director's fundamental task is to develop musicianship through singing, Bartle suggests skill-building exercises and interactive rehearsal techniques. The book's appendixes form a sourcebook of warm-ups, repertoire, and suggested programmes, providing several seasons' worth of inspiration. For teachers just starting out with their choirs, students of the child voice and teaching methods, and experienced choir directors seeking to take their students one step further, Sound Advice will benefit all choir directors who want their choirs to reach a higher level of artistry, musicianship and skill.
