A Practical Guide To Choral Conducting
by Bradley Ellingboe
Choir - Sheet Music

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SKU: KJ.VM18

Composed by Bradley Ellingboe. Choral, Reference, Text. Choral score. 160 pages. Neil A. Kjos Music Company #VM18. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company (KJ.VM18).

ISBN 9780849735684. 8.5 x 11 inches.

With nearly 40 years of experience in the choral field, esteemed conductor and composer Bradley Ellingboe shares his wisdom, tips, and practicaladvice in an accessible and enjoyable style. His pragmatic approach will help you learn the right questions to ask for your own unique situation,and will help you learn to arrive at your own solutions. The interrelated chapters guide you through the necessary steps forpreparing a successful concert or season, making effective rehearsal plans, efficiently preparing your scores and conducting gestures, problem solving issues of vocal technique, and much more. The appendix of correlated, reproducible worksheets, templates, music, and handouts will help you more easily organize your plans and apply the useful suggestions.

Praise for A Practical Guide to Choral Conducting “In A Practical Guide to Choral Conducting Bradley Ellingboe insightfully addresses a full spectrum of topicsessential to the development of a successful choir conductor garnered from his own long and distinguishedcareer as a conductor, vocal soloist, and music educator. Ellingboe’s topical approach is a comprehensive one, from selecting and performing repertoire to matters ofrehearsal techniques, conducting gestures, vocal production, aspects of texts, working with an orchestra, etc.,all crucial considerations for any choral conductor. As a composer who has concertized with Prof. Ellingboe and his choirs in the past, it is gratifying to see that which has brought him esteem now in book form to be shared with his conducting colleagues, all of whom are certain to be enriched by its contents.” - Morten Lauridsen Distinguished Professor of Composition, USC Thornton School of MusicNEA-Designated “American Choral Master”Recipient, 2007 National Medal of Arts “I wish this book had been available when I was teaching undergraduate conducting courses. Not only is it full of relevant and useful resources, it is written in an easily accessible, logical, and comfortable way – as if you were having a friendly conversation with the author. I would certainly share this with my music education colleagues and also with anyone who is relatively new to the conducting profession.” - Pamela Elrod Huffman President, Texas Choral Directors AssociationDirector of Choral Activities & Associate Professor of Music, SMU Meadows School of the Arts “This helpful book is very complete, straightforward, and thought provoking, making it a good read for thebeginning conducting student, as well as those who find themselves in front of a chorus for the first time.I liked the organizing worksheets, tips, and thoughts for those new or experienced in the profession.Highly recommended!” - Charles Bruffy Grammy Award-Winning ConductorArtistic Director, Kansas City Chorale “Here is a compendium of conducting lore, a textbook that looks at the craft of choral conducting for beginners. Prof. Ellingboe’s vast experience in the field has contributed to a book that will serve teachers and students for many years to come.” - Alice Parker Artistic Director, Melodious AccordFirst Director Laureate of Chorus AmericaRecipient, 2013 Robert Shaw Choral Award “This is a practical guide for the conductor with limited experience. It includes a lot of useful information based on the author’s years of conducting and teaching. There is an emphasis, for example, on dealing with thechallenges of conducting from a full score, seating of the musical forces, cueing, marking the score to guidethe conductor’s eye, and other practical matters. The tone is informal and encouraging.” - Ann Howard Jones Professor Emerita, Boston UniversityRecipient, 2014 Chorus America Distinguished Service AwardRecipient, 2011 Robert Shaw Choral Award NEW REVIEW IN THE AMERICAN ORGANIST "A Practical Guide to Choral Conduct­ing, Bradley Ellingboe (Kjos). In his fore­word, Bradley writes that this book "was written especially for conductors who are not absolute beginners, but who are still fairly new to the profession." From his years of experience as a conductor and com­poser, he has produced a book with many practical hints: selecting appropriate reper­toire, preparing to teach the music, a re­hearsal plan, vocal technique, seating plans, creating your persona-all of this done with charm and grace. It is a splendid book to have and remind yourself of why you are in this profession! "The American Organist, (June 2019.) - Philip Brunelle is organist-choirmaster at Plymouth Congregational Church in Min­neapolis, Minn., and artistic director and founder of Vocal Essence. He has made his life­long mission the promotion of the choral art in all its forms, especially rarely heard works of the past and outstanding new music.