NEW CHORAL WORKS
WRITTEN FOR
SCHOOLS
BIZET, GEORGES
Choral Fantasia from Carmen (Arranged by N. Clifford Page).50
No opera has more numbers that are known and loved for their piquant rhythms and exquisite melodies than Bizet's masterpiece. It teems with color and life. The editor has introduced all the best of these and in the logical order in which they appear in the score. Solos, trios and choruses are all present in an easy choral arrangement, which closes brilliantly with the famous Toreador March.
GOUNOD, CHARLES
Choral Fantasia from Faust (Arranged by N. Clifford Page).50
The arranger has cleverly contrived that all the best known solos, concerted numbers and chorus are included in this fantasia, in the order in which they appear in the opera. All are treated chorally, and difficulties are so treated that high schools and popular choruses may perform the work.
COERNE, LOUIS ADOLPHE
Skipper Ireson's Ride (Cantata for Mixed Voices).30
To Whittier's stirring ballad, based on a quaint incident in an old New England past, the composer has made attractive and ingenious music, especially adapted for performance by schools and amateur societies.
HOSMER, E. S.
Columbus (Cantata for Mixed Voices) (Also issued for Men's Voices).40
A short and easy work, the music melodious though not without dramatic touches. It calls for a solo baritone. The part writing makes large use of unisons, and awkward progressions have been avoided.
(Also issued for men's voices)
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The Clippinger Class-Method of
Voice Culture
by D. A. CLIPPINGER
An altogether sane, balanced and practical text book by one of America's eminent authorities on the voice. It contains 132 pages of instructive text, technical exercises, melodic studies, and carefully chosen songs and duets.
The author's deep study of the voice together with his long experience in solving difficult vocal problems in the studio has enabled him to rid the subject of vagary, mystery, and uncertainty, and state the principles of voice-training so clearly and simply that they may be understood by anyone.
A FEW BASIC PRINCIPLES
A tone is something to hear. Therefore, to be right it must satisfy the trained ear.
A good tone is easily produced. It is the bad tone that is difficult.
A considerable part of voice-training must be devoted to getting rid of resistance, that is, effort at the wrong point.
Good voice-production is based on the right idea of tone and right conditions of the instrument.
The study of singing should be an invigorating and inspiring form of exercise.
To sing well is an accomplishment well worth the time and effort involved.
AIM OF THE BOOK
An adequate treatment of breath-control, vowel-formation, vowel-color, tone-quality, resonance, consonants, phonetic spelling, diction, the head voice.
Ample exercises for flexibility.
An illuminating discussion of interpretation, and how to study a song.
An outline of the principles of interpretation as a basis of criticism.
Purchase of outside material unnecessary.
The book is COMPLETE in itself, with ample text, nearly 150 exercises and studies, 25 songs and 7 duets.
PRICE, $1.25
For Additional Teaching Material
Art Songs for School and Studio (FIRST YEAR)
EDITED BY MABELLE GLENN and ALFRED SPOUSE
Issued in Two Editions—Medium High—Medium Low—$1.00 each
Art Songs for School and Studio (SECOND YEAR)
Edited by MABELLE GLENN and ALFRED SPOUSE
Issued in two editions—Medium High—Medium Low—$1.00 each
Because of the success of the First Year book and the demand for a second book, a step in advance, this collection has been issued. It contains twenty-three second-year songs, including two duets, from the works of Brahms, Densmore, Franz, Fisher, Grieg, Henschel, Jensen, Manney, Schubert, Schumann, Sinding, Strickland, Tchaikovsky and Watts.
The editors have added helpful notes to each of the songs and the volume includes hints on Teaching Procedure, Diction, and the Principles of Singing.