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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| The Choral Gourmet: Music Selection and Presentation | |
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| A Cappella Vocal Jazz in Eight-Part Harmony | |
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| Pedagogical Pie | |
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| Does Your Verbal Feedback "Nurture or Starve Your Students? Food for Thought | |
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| Increased Individual Learning in the Ensemble Setting through Problem Solving | |
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| It's All in the Ingredients: Considerations for Choosing Repertoire | |
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| Tasting the Text: The Missing Ingredient | |
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| Putting the Zest Back into Intonation: Alternatives to Simmering or Stewing in the Choral Rehearsal | |
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| Invitation Etiquette: The Do's of Building Choral Participation | |
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| Kinesthetics and Movement in the Choral Rehearsal | |
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| Diction al Dente: Preparing Texts "To Taste" | |
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| Learning About Music While Learning the Music | |
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| Vowel Modification for a Resonant and Healthy Tone | |
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| Enhancement of Choir Sound through Ensemble Spacing | |
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| A Recipe for Sight-Singing Success | |
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| How to Get Your Ensemble to Make M.U.S.I.C. | |
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| Soup & Salad: Improving Sight-Singing in Two Directions | |
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| Table of Acceptable Substitutes: Turning Score Terminology into Expressions | |
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| Eight Essential Ingredients for Preparing Choirs for Performance | |
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| Stocking the Shelves for a Full Cupboard of Vowels | |
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| Spice Up Your Warm-Ups | |
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| Old-Fashioned Learning-Tree Stew: Good for Building Honor, Respect, and Self-Esteem | |
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| Leaven to Counteract Loafing: Developing a Self-Responsible and Collaborative Choir | |
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| Turning Thoughts into Words: Writing to and with Your Choir | |
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| Superior Stew: How to Achieve Top Ratings at Choral Festivals | |
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| Preparing the Mind, Preparing the Ear: Developing Subvocalization Skill to Improve Intonation | |
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| Choir Curry: Seasoning for Success | |
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| The Wonderful World of Rounds: Incorporating Rounds into the Choral Rehearsal | |
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| A Smorgasbord of Choral Color and Sound through Artistic Visualization | |
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| Creating a Men's Choir in an SATB Town | |
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| Using a Modified Music Staff to Decode Pitch Notation | |
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| How to Saute a Fugue | |
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| Score Study: A Recipe for Success | |
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| Podium Freedom | |
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| Voix Inspiree Souffle: Developing the Individual Voice within the Ensemble | |
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| Add More Cooks to the Kitchen: Exploring Critical Analysis and Aesthetic Perception through Expressive Listening | |
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| Singers in Motion, or Stirring Up Your Rehearsals | |
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| Salsa Musica: Solo and Ensemble Latin-Style Improvisation | |
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| Breath, Space, Focus: Choral Tone Supreme | |
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| Tasty Morsels: Using the Internet to Spice Up Your Programs | |
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| Build a Great Arch of Unimagined Bridges: Programming to Make Connections | |
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| Bringing the Lyric to Life in Vocal Jazz | |
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| Tapas: Balanced Vocal and Musical Nourishment for Young Singers | |
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| A Well-Balanced Meal: Thoughts for Healthy Programming | |
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| Rehearsal Appetizers: Three Musical Skills to Tempt Your Rehearsal Tastebuds | |
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| Teacher Behaviors that Stimulate Student Motivation | |
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| It Only Takes a Spark...to Get a "Choi-r" Go-ing | |
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| A Children's Choir Recipe for Success | |
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| The Perfect Blend: Every Choir Director's Dream and Goal | |
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| First Rehearsal: Setting the Tone of an Expressive "Ensemble" | |
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| Do Not Be Deflected from Your Course | |
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| The Oochy-Goo Express: A Recipe for Relaxed Breathing | |
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| Growing Pains: The Trials, Tribulations, and Eventual Success of a Recovering Perfectionist | |
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| Savories, Spices, and Sweets: Programming Considerations in an Increasingly Diverse Culture | |
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| Making a Section Rehearsal Successful | |
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| Serving Up the Text | |
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| Easy-Bake Score Study: A Simple Recipe for All Occasions | |
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