Dr.
Adam Potter, R&R Chair for Men’s Choirs
Sing
Your Way Home
TTBB
Joseph
M. Martin (quoting Antonín Dvořák)
Mark
Foster/Shawnee Press/Hal Leonard #35027949
Your
guys will love singing this beautiful text:
Sing
your way home at the close of the day.
Sing
your way home. Drive the shadows away.
Where’er
you go, wherever you roam,
it
will brighten your road; lighten your load
if
you sing, sing your way home.
Martin’s
harmonies are mostly diatonic with wonderful moments of dissonance (quickly
resolved).
“Stomp Your Foot!” from The Tender Land
TTBB
Aaron
Copland
Boosey
& Hawkes/Hal Leonard #M-051-45146-4
This
classic has fallen somewhat out of fashion, but is great fun for advanced men’s
choirs. Great to reinforce vocal production in high and low tessituri. Requires
two talented pianists for the piano-duo accompaniment.
Ascendit
Deus
TTTBB
Jacob
Handl
CPDL
#00833
This
polyphonic Renaissance piece is a terrific choice for your advanced men’s
choir. Predominantly in the Ionian mode, it is perfect to reinforce rhythmic
and tonal reading concepts. Handl (also known as Gallus) demonstrates his
mastery of text painting throughout.
Title
of Resource: Teaching Music with Passion: Conducting, Rehearsing and Inspiring
by Peter Loel Boonshaft
Description
of Resource: If you’re in the “mid-semester blues,” this is a great read to
invigorate and inspire your teaching again. Through a series of reflections on
being a music educator, Boonshaft helps us rekindle the flame that drove us to
become teachers in the first place.
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