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Resources & Textbooks

ADVANCE - A Cure for Musical Illiteracy by Ted Reid & Allan Robert Petker in CD form. Includes a Director's Manual, a set of step-by-step lessons, quizzes and a Duplication License valid for life! 

CANTABILE and CANTABILE VOICE CLASS and NEW! CHORAL CANTABILE- These textbooks offer a fresh and comprehensive approach to vocal pedagogy, providing vocal training for singers and choirs.

CHORAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - The acclaimed series now used in schools, churches, college, and by choral groups world-wide.

CHORUS CONFIDENTIAL - The best course text for any choral music class. "An insightful, direct and entertaining guide to the intricate art of teaching choral music. An essential for every choral conductor's library." Jing Ling-Tam, Professor of Music, Director of Choral Studies, University of Texas at Arlington 

I P A ALPHABET - Teaching pronunciation of a foreign language is one of the most time-consuming tasks for any choral director. Here's an easy to use, handheld tool for you and your choral singers. Every page is a letter of the alphabet, divided into columns for Latin, German, Italian, French and Spanish.

 

 

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 Advance Cd Edition  Author/Lyricist: Ted Reid and Allan Petker  Released: March 2010 
   Attention: This may sound too good to be true - but it is. Teach music literacy to your choir in 5 minute daily lessons. This CD contains a teachers handbook and is packed with 89 lessons that explain almost everything about music for the singer. Organized in an easy to follow, step by step, method, the students will learn names of everything musical, including notes and connect to the keyboard, meters and rhythms, writing counts in music, and interval relationships. A sidebar of quotes, anecdotes and humor serve to encourage and inspire. Optional quizzes and exams are also included. Plus, with a duplication license valid for life, you can print the student lesson handouts year after year for your choir. At last - music literacy for choirs is affordable and practical.
 

  P5025 -   [buy now]
$49.95

 
Cantabile
 

 Cantabile  Author/Lyricist: Katharin Rundus 
Voicing: BOOK  Released: January 2009 
   CANTABILE offers a fresh and comprehensive approach to vocal pedagogy. A ''spiral of learning'' allows singers to revisit basic concepts as they advance to deeper levels, and gives all readers a path to lifelong learning. A definitive source for individual singers, voice teachers and choral conductors, CANTABILE provides intricate illustrations, a complete glossary and extensive index, and specific vocal exercises for every student and teacher. This textbook will be the new standard for vocal study. When one hears ''vocal pedagogy'' they tend to have tired eyes. But this text book breaks the mold. Making complex concepts easily understood is the hallmark of Dr. Katharin Rundus' teaching career. Filled with anatomical drawings, pictures, graphs and loads of valuable vocal exercises, this book is wisely and attractively organized. Plus, every chapter includes a section specifically for the choral director - who should definitely understand the mechanics of the instrument they transform.
 

  P5023 - BOOK  [buy now]
$69.99
  P5023AF - Reproducible Figures and Graphs  [buy now]
$35.00

 
Cantabile Virtual Vocalise Collection
 

 Cantabile Virtual Vocalise Collection  Author/Lyricist: Katharin Rundus 
Voicing: Book w/ MyLibrary  Released: January 2021 
   The Cantabile Series offers varying levels of voice training from primary vocal pedagogy to comprehensive course texts. This collection provides 59 vocal training exercises in written form, sound files, and online video scores, each with introductions explaining the purpose and goal. Vocal students and choral singers can sing along with established vocal techniques under the direction of acclaimed vocal pedagogue and Vocologist, Dr. Katharin Rundus, at home or in the classroom.
 

  P5031 - Book w/ MyLibrary  [buy now]
$6.99
  P5031B - P5031 BUNDLE of 20  [buy now]
$99.99

 
Cantabile Voice Class
 

 Cantabile Voice Class  Author/Lyricist: Katharin Rundus 
Voicing: BOOK  Released: January 2015 
   CANTABILE - A Manual About Beautiful Singing (P5023) was released a few years ago and has risen to be a staple course text for colleges across the country. This is the perfect follow-up - a classroom text for the undergraduate student. One could think of it as Cantabile-lite. The primary book still needs to be in the hands of the instructor, but students will enjoy a less-comprehensive version at a third of the price.
 

  P5026 - BOOK  [buy now]
$24.99

 
Cantabile Voice Class - Online Plus
 

 Cantabile Voice Class - Online Plus  Author/Lyricist: Katharin Rundus 
Voicing: Book w/ MyLibrary  Released: January 2021 
   ''P5026 Cantabile Voice Class'' has become one of the most popular undergraduate course texts for 2-year colleges and high schools. ''Online Plus'' provides a supplement with much more content than just an online version. Appropriate for asynchronous, synchronous, and face-to-face classroom learning, “Online Plus” complements the physical book (P5026) and enables the course text to work online, with a teacher, or for independent study. Sound files, web sites, videos, and art songs with recorded accompaniments (Folk, Italian Baroque, German Lied, and American Art song - Rosephanye Powell) are included.
 

  P5030 - Book w/ MyLibrary  [buy now]
$19.99

 
Choral Cantabile
 

 Choral Cantabile  Author/Lyricist: Katharin Rundus 
Voicing: Book  Released: January 2017 
   CHORAL CANTABILE is a manual that transforms a choir's warm-up time into meaningful voice-building. Dr. Katharin Rundus is a renowned singer, voice instructor and choral conductor who has authored three vocal pedagogy textbooks. The first, CANTABILE, P5023, is a comprehensive college level text now used the world over. CANTABILE: Voice Class, P5026, is single semester text with equal acclaim. CHORAL CANTABILE is the final book in the series and is specifically for the choral conductor. Organized in the same unique, easy-read format, with clarifying icons and duplicatable exercises, this will be a required resource in the classroom and an aid for choral conductors everywhere.
 

  P5027 - Book  [buy now]
$19.99

 

 

 Choral Questions And Answers Vol 1  Author/Lyricist: David C. Dickau, Allan Robert Petker 
Voicing: Director 
Season: General  Released: January 1990 
  

  P5001 - Director  [buy now]
$10.95

 

 

 Choral Questions And Answers Vol 2  Author/Lyricist: Judith Herrington, Sara Glick, Allan Robert Petker 
Voicing: Director's Editiion 
Season: General  Released: January 1991 
  

  P5002 - Director's Editiion  [buy now]
$7.95

 

 

 Choral Questions And Answers Vol 3  Author/Lyricist: David C. Dickau, Allan Robert Petker 
Voicing: Director 
Season: General  Released: January 1992 
  

  P5003 - Director  [buy now]
$6.95

 

 

 Choral Questions And Answers Vol 4  Author/Lyricist: Katharin Rundus, Allan Robert Petker 
Voicing: Singer's Edition 
Season: General  Released: January 1995 
  

  P5010 - Singer's Edition  [buy now]
$7.95

 

 

 Choral Questions And Answers Vol 5  Author/Lyricist: Allan Robert Petker, Jan Sanborn 
Voicing: Director/Accompanist 
Season: General  Released: January 1998 
  

  P5011 - Director/Accompanist  [buy now]
$5.99

 
Choralisms
 

 Choralisms  Author/Lyricist: Roger Emerson 
Voicing: Book  Released: January 2022 
   This is the perfect gift for all the choral people in your life, for the holidays, Christmas time or anytime. Renowned composer/arranger Roger Emerson has been keeping notes of wise words from the many choral mentors in his life - conductors, composers, producers, publishers. His way of passing on these stories is as clever, delightful and often humorous as his musical writing. (Did I just call his music writing humorous?). Plus, the lessons are spot on and priceless. Find out what ''choralisms'' really means and get a copy of this book for yourself - now!
 

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  P5033 - Book  [buy now]
$19.99

 

 

 Chorus Confidential  Author/Lyricist: William Dehning 
Voicing: BOOK 
Season: General  Released: January 2003 
  

  P5013 - BOOK  [buy now]
$29.95

 

 

 Handbell Questions And Answers Vol. I  Author/Lyricist: Allan Robert Petker & Martha Wall 
Voicing: HANDBELL 
Season: General  Released: January 1996 
  

  P6001 - HANDBELL  [buy now]
$8.95

 
I P A  Alphabet
 

 I P A Alphabet  Author/Lyricist: Cristian Grases 
Voicing: Book  Released: January 2011 
   Teaching pronunciation of a foreign language is one of the most time-consuming tasks for any choral director. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) has become the recognized authority of pronunciation symbols, but there has never been a resource that makes the teaching process flow easily. The IPA Book is the brilliant creation of USC Conductor, Dr. Cristian Grases. Every page is a letter of the alphabet, divided into 5 columns for Latin, German, Italian, French, and Spanish. This simple organization places an easy handheld tool into every choral singer's hand. Learning has never been so good for high school, college and above.
 

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  P5024 - Book  [buy now]
$18.99

 

 

 Lame Brain Games  Author/Lyricist: Judith Herrington, Clayton Miller 
Voicing: Book 
Season: General  Released: January 2000 
  

  P5012 - Book  [buy now]
$4.50

 
Resonance - The Art Of The Choral Music Educator
 

 Resonance - The Art Of The Choral Music Educator 
Composer: Christopher W. Peterson 

Voicing: Book interactive  Released: January 2021 
   Preparing students to become choral music teachers is what Christopher Peterson does at Cal State University, Fullerton. His methods are modern and extremely popular. Now he has placed them into a course textbook with interactive links. The physical textbook comes with an access code so students can connect with a companion digital publication with links to videos, PDFs, spreadsheets, sound files and the like. This is a choral methods textbook for our time. Written in an orderly yet relatable way, it makes teaching a craft to embrace, enjoy and understand.
 

  P5029 - Book interactive  [buy now]
$49.99
  P5029P - Posters  [buy now]
$9.99

 
Resonance - The Art Of The Choral Music Educator
 

 Resonance - The Art Of The Choral Music Educator 
Composer: Christopher W. Peterson 

Voicing: Book interactive  Released: January 2021 
Sample Sound File Listen
   Preparing students to become choral music teachers is what Christopher Peterson does at Cal State University, Fullerton. His methods are modern and extremely popular. Now he has placed them into a course textbook with interactive links. The physical textbook comes with an access code so students can connect with a companion digital publication with links to videos, PDFs, spreadsheets, sound files and the like. This is a choral methods textbook for our time. Written in an orderly yet relatable way, it makes teaching a craft to embrace, enjoy and understand.
 

PDF 2x2 See the Music

  P5029L - Book interactive  [buy now]
$49.99

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