Comments on: Essentials for a Classical Singing Library Part I http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/essentials-for-a-classical-singing-library-part-i/ Tips and Resources for Private Music Teachers and Performers everywhere! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:51:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Catherine Brown / www.findingmysingingvoice.com http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/essentials-for-a-classical-singing-library-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-41646 Catherine Brown / www.findingmysingingvoice.com Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:02:18 +0000 http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/essentials-for-a-classical-singing-library-part-i/#comment-41646 This is a wonderful list. Thanks for sharing! www.findingmysingingvoice.com This is a wonderful list. Thanks for sharing!

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]]> By: Craig Tompkins http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/essentials-for-a-classical-singing-library-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-18722 Craig Tompkins Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:15:06 +0000 http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/essentials-for-a-classical-singing-library-part-i/#comment-18722 Hi Sarah, This series is a great idea! I would like to add to your list of books on studio management (all of them are on my bookshelf!) a few others that I've found useful: "Promoting your Teaching Studio" by Philip Johnston is directed more towards the private piano studio, but it is full of wonderful ideas on promotion and publicity. His other book "The Practice Revolution" is chock full of brilliant and sometimes bizarre ideas of how to get "great results from the six days between music lessons". Both books get a lot of use from me and my colleagues. Another one in the same vein as the Osborn is "Making Money Teaching Music" by David and Barbara Newsam. It's a bit older (1995) but contains information on finding/making teaching opportunities, designing a home studio, time and financial management etc. In the category of technique and development, well, I have WAY too many books! I must admit to being a bit of an addict when it comes to acquiring vocal pedagogy books! I'll limit myself to "Classical" technique. Tops on my list are the books by Richard Miller. As you say they are not for most young or beginning students to read, however I have found that some of the essays in "Solutions for Singers" and "On the Art of Singing", are entertaining and informative for high school age and older singers. A small book packed full of accessible and useful information is "The Performer's Voice" by Meribeth Bunch Dayme. "Singing for Dummies" comes with a CD and provides an introduction to all kinds of singing, not just classical. It also emphasizes healthy singing and because it's in the "Dummies" series, the information is clear, precise and accurate. For breathing, I find that I'm constantly referring to Barbara Conable's "The Structures and Movement of Breathing" which contains some of the best descriptions and illustrations of breathing I have come across. The last book that I'll mention is "The Singer's Handbook" by Anne Peckham. This is a tiny (40 pages) booklet from the "In the Pocket" series from Berklee Press which is a remarkable distillation of the basics of becoming a singer: alignment, breathing, vocalizing, song study and vocal health. Looking forward to the next installment! Hi Sarah,

This series is a great idea! I would like to add to your list of books on studio management (all of them are on my bookshelf!) a few others that I’ve found useful: “Promoting your Teaching Studio” by Philip Johnston is directed more towards the private piano studio, but it is full of wonderful ideas on promotion and publicity. His other book “The Practice Revolution” is chock full of brilliant and sometimes bizarre ideas of how to get “great results from the six days between music lessons”. Both books get a lot of use from me and my colleagues. Another one in the same vein as the Osborn is “Making Money Teaching Music” by David and Barbara Newsam. It’s a bit older (1995) but contains information on finding/making teaching opportunities, designing a home studio, time and financial management etc.

In the category of technique and development, well, I have WAY too many books! I must admit to being a bit of an addict when it comes to acquiring vocal pedagogy books! I’ll limit myself to “Classical” technique.

Tops on my list are the books by Richard Miller. As you say they are not for most young or beginning students to read, however I have found that some of the essays in “Solutions for Singers” and “On the Art of Singing”, are entertaining and informative for high school age and older singers. A small book packed full of accessible and useful information is “The Performer’s Voice” by Meribeth Bunch Dayme. “Singing for Dummies” comes with a CD and provides an introduction to all kinds of singing, not just classical. It also emphasizes healthy singing and because it’s in the “Dummies” series, the information is clear, precise and accurate.
For breathing, I find that I’m constantly referring to Barbara Conable’s “The Structures and Movement of Breathing” which contains some of the best descriptions and illustrations of breathing I have come across. The last book that I’ll mention is “The Singer’s Handbook” by Anne Peckham. This is a tiny (40 pages) booklet from the “In the Pocket” series from Berklee Press which is a remarkable distillation of the basics of becoming a singer: alignment, breathing, vocalizing, song study and vocal health.
Looking forward to the next installment!

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