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Choral conducting : a handbook for Irish choir trainers & conductors / Kevin O'Carroll.

By: O'Carroll, Kevin.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Halfway House, Co. Waterford : O'Carroll Publications, 2012Description: 133 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781908559555 .Subject(s): Choral conductingDDC classification: 781.45
Contents:
A choral philosophy -- Planning a programme -- Background research -- Warm ups -- Rehearsal technique -- Choir voicing : a technique to blend the timbre of your choir -- Gesture -- Writing programme notes -- Auditions - who needs them ? -- Performance practice -- Non standard 20th century notation -- Working with instruments -- Conductor vs. instrumentalist vs. chorister -- Coda.

Bibliography: p. 132-133.

A choral philosophy -- Planning a programme -- Background research -- Warm ups -- Rehearsal technique -- Choir voicing : a technique to blend the timbre of your choir -- Gesture -- Writing programme notes -- Auditions - who needs them ? -- Performance practice -- Non standard 20th century notation -- Working with instruments -- Conductor vs. instrumentalist vs. chorister -- Coda.