Warm-Ups
Innovative Warm-Ups for the Volunteer Choir
Innovative Warm-Ups for the Volunteer Choir offers purposeful, creative exercises that are simple to learn and fun to sing. The unique two- to four-part vocalises also develop refinement in intonation and choral balance. By using these warm-ups in your rehearsals, your choir members will continually acquire techniques to improve their vocal ability and become more confident musicians.
The Choral Warm-up: Accompanied Modal Canons
This addition to the successful Choral Warm-Up series provides one of the most important tools in teaching elements of choral intonation: canons. By singing canons, the ensemble can develop listening skills that revolve around “listening to everyone but themselves.” These modal canons by Roger Ames extend that listening skill even further by adding harmonically supportive and enriching accompaniments.
Essentials of the Choral Warm-Up: Science, Method, and Pedagogy
For more than three decades, James Jordan has been at the forefront of the evolution of the choral warm-up, choral pedagogy, and music teaching and learning, applying the principles of Edwin E. Gordon’s Music Learning Theory. Now, Essentials of the Choral Warm-Up aligns choral pedagogy with the principles of voice science, which will transform the sound, intonation, and musicianship of choral ensembles at all levels.
Prayers
To Sing and Serve
WLP’s Pray Today Series is an inspiring collection of travel-sized books ideal for prayer and meditation among all groups of Catholics—parish musicians; clergy; worship committees; OCIA directors and candidates; ministers of the sick; those who are suffering from illness; and of course, everyday Catholics. The prayers inside each book are completely unique and written from the author’s heart. Many provide scripture citations and are ordered by liturgical season.
Praying in Silence of Heart
In this, Brother Roger’s final book, he shares his own prayers, those he composed for the daily services at Taizé. In just a few words, each prayer expresses a search for God and points toward the source of hope that burned within the founder of the Taizé Community.
Psalms from the Heart
A collection of Spirit-filled prayers that reflect on the events of day-by-day living, be they the seasons of the Church's calendar or nature's calendar, moments joyful, awe-inspiring, sorrowful, or even mundane. With a writer's sense honed by years of music-making for God's glory, the author crafts these moments, familiar to all readers, into compelling and inspiring meditations.
