Allowing Success: Is It Time to Take the Training Wheels Off Your Chorus? - This article originally appeared in Choral Director Magazine under the title "Taking the Training Wheels Off Your Chorus."

Bach Cantata Instrumentation - Bach Cantatas listed by common instrumentation.

Budget Savers - Music department budgets are notoriously small. Here are some tips to help you stretch every dollar.

Choral Curriculum - A checklist that helps ensure that your singers are receiving a wide variety of music. This is intended as more of a point of departure for discussion on this topic than a hard-and-fast curriculum.

Efficient Rehearsal Techniques - Ideas for a more time-efficient rehearsal process.

Haiku Composition Project - A composition assignment for use in the choral classroom. As described in the magazine, Choral Director. This sheet is for grades 4-7, but you can make your own that incorporates steps for melodic contour, strong/week syllables, harmonization, or anything else.

My Favorite Choral Works - I was recently asked to compile my "can't live without" list of choral titles. I can't imagine anyone would find this interesting, but here it is anyway!

Print Resources for Choral Directors - A list of books and articles to help you prepare for that first job, or to help experienced teachers renew their skills.

Restoring Our Idealism: Determining Repertoire Quality - This article originally appeared in Choral Director Magazine. Supporting documents: Checklist for Evaluating Repertoire and a Sample Singer Ballot.

Score Analysis Method - A method for analyzing choral scores, combining the techniques and viewpoints of René Clausen, Drew Collins, Kenneth Jennings, Ann Howard Jones, Jameson Marvin, Daniel Moe, Weston Noble, Robert Shaw and Howard Swan.

Staff paper - Instead of purchasing staff paper, download this and photocopy it for free. 12 5-line staves with no left- or right-hand barlines.

Successful Sight-Singing Performance Selections - A listing of all titles in Nancy Telfer's performance series, which parallels her "Successful Sight Singing" method. This choral series is extremely useful for the choral educator, as it includes resources and information which help the musician achieve excellence in rehearsal and performance. Many voicings and difficulty levels are represented. Both the sight-singing method books and the choral series are published by Kjos Music Co.

Top School Choral Repertoire - Exactly what it sounds like. All voicings (except male chorus), all of moderate difficulty level.

Warm-up method - My approach to choral warm-ups, derived from Ken Jennings, Paul Nesheim, Weston Noble, Rene Clausen and many others.

 

Especially for Changing Voice Choirs

Rehearsal Tips for Changing Voice Choirs - A list of ideas for directors who lead singers whose voices are changing.

Repertoire Suggestions for Changing Voice Choirs - John Cooksey, Lynne Gackle, and others helped me compile this list of top repertoire selections for singers in grades 6-9.

Downloads of Choral Masterworks for Mixed Choirs with Changing Voices - Works of Mozart, Dowland, Faure, Handel, Morley and more...all recommended by the same panel of experts that helped create the above list of repertoire suggestions and checklist. Great music, and all for FREE!.

Selecting Repertoire for Changing Voices Checklist - A group of experts helped create this method of determining the quality and appropriateness of a piece of choral music.