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From Concepts to Concerts: Building Confidence in the Choral Classroom (Earlene Rentz)

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"From Concepts to Concerts by Dr. Earlene Rentz is intended to be used as a supplementary text for the choral rehearsal, providing exercise that teach concepts to choral singers. The exercises are arranged in simple-to-complex order that will allow for success through all grade levels, providing challenges for young singers as well as more advanced students."
Text above is from the book's foreword, by Andre Thomas, Professor of Choral Music Education, College of Music, The Florida State University

To be fully used as the resource they were intended, this (book) includes permission to copy for classroom use.

Table of Contents:
Section I. Pitches and Intervals
Section II. Tempo and Meter
Section III. Symbols and Structure
Section IV. Text and Phrasing

This book will help you to:
- Maximize your rehearsal time.
- Solve musical problems in repertoire BEFORE you open the music.
- Transfer concepts into repertoire.
- Minimize your teaching time while you increase your repertoire.
- Teach choral concepts to be transferred into repertoire.
- Find solutions for choral challenges in rhythm, pitch, tempo, phrasing, diction, style, and meter.
- Solve it quickly, transfer it effectively, recall it forever.