About The Book
Choral Pedagogy, Third Edition, is the ideal text for voice teachers, choral conductors, church musicians, and professional and amateur singers who wish to develop strategies for lifelong singing. It concisely and clearly presents the principles of voice pedagogy from the perspective of both conducting and voice science in a user-friendly fashion, including helpful charts and simple anatomic diagrams. In addition, it offers teaching methods from history and philosophy, medical and voice science, and pedagogical concepts from active musical experts. Special attention is given to the needs of amateur singers and conductors. Topics covered include choral diction, posture and seating, rehearsal practices, and matters of vocal health.
For the third edition, the authors have completely revised the text, updating the medical information and expanding the exercises. They have also added three new chapters:
- A chapter entitled “Singing in the 21st Century” that considers the vocal/choral demands of the choral repertoire being written in this century.
- A chapter on teaching young boys to sing written by Vic Oakes, the conductor of the Chattanooga Boys Choir.
- A chapter entitled “The Value of Lifelong Singing.”
With its updates and additions, Choral Pedagogy, Third Edition, is a valuable resource for students of choral conducting, music education, church music, and choral singing.
About The Authors
Brenda Smith, DMA, a lyric soprano, teaches studio voice, singer’s diction, and vocal pedagogy at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She is widely recognized for her contributions to the concept of lifelong singing through proper voice care. Brenda Smith’s most recent publication is Diction in Context: Singing in English, Italian, German, and French. She is the author of So You Want to Sing for a Lifetime: A Guide to Performer, a publication sponsored by the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Dr. Smith and Dr. Robert T. Sataloff have collaborated on a variety of projects to promote vocal health through choral singing. They are the co-authors of two textbooks, Choral Pedagogy, Third Edition and Choral Pedagogy and the Older Singer that unite voice science, vocal pedagogy with choral conducting. Brenda Smith serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Voice and is a Consulting Editor for Plural Publishing. In recognition of demonstrated excellence in teaching and her interest in voice science, Dr. Smith received the Van Lawrence Fellowship in 2000, presented by The Voice Foundation and the NATS. Before joining the University of Florida faculty, she taught at Westminster Choir College, Dickinson College, and Rowan University.
Robert Thayer Sataloff, MD, DMA, FACS, is Professor and Chairman in the Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery and Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Academic Specialties at Drexel University College of Medicine. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University; as well as on the faculty of the Academy of Vocal Arts.
Table Of Contents
Preface
About the Authors
Contributors
I. Introduction
1 Amateur and Professional Choral Singers
2 The Rehearsal Process
II. Vocal Health and Pedagogy
3 Anatomy and Physiology of the Voice
4 Medical Care of Voice Disorders
- Robert T. Sataloff and Mary Hawkshaw
5 Hearing Loss in Singers and Other Musicians
- Robert T. Sataloff, Joseph Sataloff, and Caren J. Sokolow
6 The Aging Voice
- Margaret Baroody and Brenda Smith
7 Performing Arts Medicine and the Professional
Voice User: Risk of Nonvoice Performance
8 Seating Problems of Vocalists
- Richard Norris
9 Historical Overview of Vocal Pedagogy
- Richard Miller
10 Choral Pedagogy and Vocal Health
11 Voice Disorders Among Choral Music Educators
- Brenda Smith
12 Singing in the 21st Century
- Brenda Smith
III. The Vocal Approach to Choral Music
13 Choral Singing and Children
14 The Young Singer
- Vincent Oakes
15 Voice Building for Choirs
16 Choral Singing: The Singing Voice and the Choral Tone
17 Choral Singing Techniques
18 Choral Diction
19 Rehearsal Techniques
20 The Value of Lifelong Singing
- Brenda Smith
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
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