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Seelig, Timothy: Perfect Blend, The (Book/DVD)

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Format: Book & DVD Package
Book: 158 pp. Softcover
Publisher: Shawnee Press, 2005
From the book cover:
It will make you think. It will make you laugh. It may change the way you approach your job as a choral director. The Perfect Blend provides an entertaining, yet practical approach to the voice and to the choir. Over 100 exercises, including photos to explain them, rehearsal and programming tips, vocal health and the aging voice, plus "things they didn't teach you in school." It all adds up to the perfect blend for any choral director.
Book Table of Contents:
Introduction-Let's Start at the Very Beginning
Chapter 1: Warm 'er up (or down)-There Is a Difference
Chapter 2: Posture-Holding Your Musical Instrument
Chapter 3: Motor-Rev Your Engines
Chapter 4: Vibrator-The Most Powerful 3/4 Inch in the World
Chapter 5: Registers-Head, Chest, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Chapter 6: Resonators-Woofers and Tweeters
Chapter 7: Choral Singing-Eclectic Blender
Chapter 8: Your Conducting Profile-Physician, Heal Thyself
Chapter 9: TMI-Rehearsal Tips
Chapter 10: TLC-Things They Didn't Teach You
Chapter 11: Vocal Health-Soup to Nuts
Chapter 12: The Aging Voice-It's Gonna Happen
Appendix: Sample Programs - Sample Memory Schedule - Sample Rehearsal Plan - Rehearsal Plan Template - Five-course Meal Plan - My "Last Meal" of Warm-ups - Sample Landscape of "The Awakening" - Productivity Tool: A lifesaver - Musical Mishaps - The Turtle Creek Chorale Mission - About the Author - After Dinner Sweets - Changing the World - Turtle Creek Chorale Photograph - Index of Warm-ups

DVD: Running time: 2 hours
From the DVD jacket: Features over 50 vocal/choral warmups performed by members of the Turtle Creek Chorale and One Achord, of the TCC. Provides a 5-course "meal" of Warm-ups:
- Appetizer: Posture
- Soup: Breathing
- Salad: Phonation
- Entree: Resonance
- Dessert: Blend
Bonus chapters include:
- An amazing trip to vocologist amy Haimlton at Baylor All Saints Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX, to see actual vocal folds in action;
- The things they didn't teach you in school.
Performances by The Turtle Creek Chorale: "The Quest Unending" by Joseph Martin, "Mary Sat A-Rockin'" by Greg Gilpin.