Overview

• New, updated and fully revised edition
• New chapters on children's singing, the aging voice, vocal health strategies for choral music directors
• Concise, clear and accessible to performers and teachers of singing and voice at all levels

With new chapters, fully updated and revised, Choral Pedagogy is intended to aid the voice teacher, choral conductor, church musician, and professional or amateur singer 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 very user-friendly fashion with helpful charts and simple anatomic diagrams. 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. This text is a valuable resource for students of choral conducting, music education, church music or choral singing.

Audience

Primary Subject: Singing & The Performing Arts / Voice and Vocal Health
Secondary Subject: Singing & The Performing Arts / General
Audience Level: Professional/Textbook - 90 Days

• Amateur and Professional Choral Singers
• The Rehearsal Process
• Vocal Health and Pedagogy
• Anatomy and Physiology of the Voice
• Medical Care of Voice Disorders
• Performing Arts Medicine and the Professional Voice User:
  Risk of Non-Voice Performance
• Seating Problems of Vocalists
• Historical Overview of Vocal Pedagogy
• Voice Building for Choirs
• Choral Singing: The Singing Voice and the Choral Tone
• Choral Singing Techniques
• Choral Diction
• Rehearsal Techniques
• Children's Choirs
• Selected Bibliography
• Glossary

About The Authors

Brenda Smith, D.M.A.

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Robert Sataloff, M.D., D.M.A.

Robert Thayer Sataloff, M.D. is Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University and Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Graduate Hospital. He is President-Elect of the American Laryngological Association; Chairman of the Speech, Voice and Swallowing Committee of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery; and Chairman of the Voice Foundation. A prolific author and contributor to over 80 books and some 450 articles and learned papers, he is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Voice and the Ear, Nose and Throat.

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