Front-Loading Your Choral Rehearsal: Constructing for Success

by Christine Bass

Overview

(Choral). Front-Loading Your Choral Rehearsal: Constructing for Success is a creative rehearsal approach designed to aid conductors of all experience levels. Using the building blocks of musical concepts, style, and delivery, Front-Loading offers invaluable tools to help conductors scaffold their singers' learning toward a collective goal of transformative performances. Concepts come alive in real time through the video clips of working rehearsals embedded in the narrative. Practical in application yet sophisticated in approach, Christine Bass condenses decades of experience into Front-Loading, a comprehensive rehearsal technique guide for conductors striving to reach the next level of excellence in their work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781540005106
Publisher:	Meredith Music
Publication date:	08/01/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Chapter 1 The Basics 13

Chapter 2 Where To Begin? 23

Chapter 3 Design Specific Warm Ups 29

Chapter 4 Training Their Ears 35

Chapter 5 No Words, Please! 39

Chapter 6 Front-Load! 43

Chapter 7 Give Meaning to the Piece 51

Chapter 8 Creative Introductions 55

Chapter 9 Achieving Blend 59

Chapter 10 Achieving Balance 69

Chapter 11 Text Time 73

Chapter 12 Help Those Harmony Singers 81

Chapter 13 Additional Rehearsal Techniques 85

Chapter 14 Choir Geek Mentality 89

Chapter 15 Ownership 95

Chapter 16 Keep It Fresh! 99

Chapter 17 Total Concert Programing 101

Acknowledgements 105