Handbook for Beginning Choral Educators

Walter Lamble is a retired choral educator with more than 30 years' experience in the classroom. He has a Ph.D. in music education from the University of Iowa.

• IntroductionForeword1. Getting StartedA. Designing a Choral Music ProgramB. Choosing and Purchasing MusicC. Before School Begins2. Choral Basics in the RehearsalA. Warming up the ChoirB. The Unison SoundC. Vowels, Consonants, and DiphthongsD. Choral Sound and Vocal Production3. The Academics of RehearsalA. Teaching Sight-SingingB. Presenting a Basic Sight-Singing LessonC. Acquiring Basic Skills in the Choral Classroom4. Important Related TopicsA. The Boy's Changing VoiceB. Singing in Foreign LanguagesC. Popular Choral Music5. The Extracurricular ProgramA. So You are Going to do a MusicalB. Travel, Parent Groups, and CompetitionsC. Popular Music Styles6. Non-Choral ConceptsA. Preparing a BudgetB. Preparing a Student for College Music StudyC. Music Professional OrganizationsD. Why Should Music be in the High School Curriculum?7. Fifty Things No One Ever Told Me

"This book comes from a very fine music educator with exceptional experience, who has common sense and a real understanding of what a beginning teacher should know. The book puts into print issues that are widely discussed at conventions and at conferences, and that are common knowledge for the experienced teacher, but that are not covered in a music education class. It is a plain and simple book, written in a language that is easy for anyone going into the profession to understand. It makes valuable suggestions in just about every aspect of the role of a choral music teacher." Michael Schwartzkopf, Professor of Music Education, Indiana University School of Music