Vocal Chamber Music

Vocal Chamber Music: A Performer's Guide is an exhaustive listing of works scored for voice, ranging from pieces for one voice and one instrument to pieces for twelve voices and twelve instruments. Created for college and conservatory teachers, it is also an essential reference for voice teachers and singers as a source of repertory for recitals, and for singers who may be unfamiliar with the literature. Vocal Chamber Music: A Performer's Guide lists composers in alphabetical order and includes an index listing voices in score order, allowing the user to quickly find either works by a specific composer or works appropriate for their voice or any combination of voices and instruments. Sample programs provide ideas on how to group these works and the introduction provides a clear road map for creating effective ensembles for the classroom, recitals, or the concert stage.

This invaluable resource is a revised edition of an essential index to vocal works composed for at least one solo voice and one instrument (other than piano or guitar) up to twelve solo voices and twelve solo instruments. The book includes a brief introduction on how to teach vocal chamber music, with tips on running a successful ensemble. Vocal Chamber Music: A Performer's Guide, 2nd Edition is a much needed and important book for voice teachers, singers, music directors and music libraries, for information that is normally difficult to find and usually requires assembling from various sources.

As a comprehensive guide to learning, rehearsing, and performing vocal chamber music, this volume explores such critical skills as choosing repertoire appropriate for one’s voice type, communicating with your ensemble, performance style, preparing for a successful rehearsal, staging considerations, and recital programming.

Lists some 700 published pieces of music for solo voice with small instrumental ensemble, written by more than 600 composers, between 1960 and 1989. The main section of the book is arranged by voice type and alphabetized by composer. Entries include information on difficulty, vocal range, language,

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First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.