Rehearse!:A Guide and Card Pack to Improve Choral Teaching through Self-Evaluation

by James Mark Jordan

Rehearse! will help you challenge and inspire your choir in every rehearsal.



Included in this



A Card Pack with 85 full-color cards for reference and focus a convenient tool to take with you into rehearsal



Areas of rehearsal technique covered




Breath and the rehearsal process

Building awareness

Teaching pitch and intonation

Teaching rhythm

Listening phrase structure

Listening harmonic motion

Articulation and diction

Internal phrasing

Vertical rhythmic alignment

Using conducting gesture as rehearsal technique

Changing focus within the rehearsal process



A Guide to help you assess, evaluate, and improve your rehearsal technique by analyzing your own strengths and weaknesses



This Guide helps conductors through a rigorous process of evaluating and improving rehearsal technique by developing nonverbal rehearsal skills.



How do your singers perceive you in rehearsal? Do you spend too much time talking? Are you giving the choir positive or negative reinforcement? With this helpful Guide, you will be able to develop better conducting techniques and better awareness of what to focus on when you rehearse.



Rehearsal technique is both an art and a process. This invaluable self-study program will improve the pedagogy of your rehearsals as well as your technique.



Spiral-bound book, 96 pages, with 85 full-color 6x9 rehearsal cards.

96 pages, Spiral-bound

First published January 28, 2009