Articles for singers
You are welcome to recommend further articles for inclusion in this section - please send them to office@nzcf.org.nz
Rehearsals & music preparation
- Blackstone, Jerry: Compelling Rehearsals
- Great Music + Great Imagination = Great Results
- Carrington, Simon: Exploring the Golden Age
- A Personal Approach
- Carrington, Simon: Sight-reading and Quick Response
- The Singers commitment is the most important single ingredient in learning to read fast.
- Carrington, Simon: Tasting the Text
- Text - the missing ingredient.
- Squire, David: What your conductor wishes you knew
- You are in a team where everyone has responsibility.
- Squire, David: Singing & Swinging
- Making choral jazz arrangements work for you.
Education
- Shearer-Dirie, Debra: Singing as spiritual food – the Kodaly method
- The key principles and themes of the Kodály method.
- Watson, Penelope: Stereotype in male singers
- Stereotype threat and adolescent males in choirs: a reflection of gender beliefs?
Singer health and 'music as medicine'
- Burns, Cameron: Singer’s Survival Guide
- The fundamental components of good singing.
- Claudius Conrad (The Lancet): Music as medicine
- Music for healing: from magic to medicine.
- Gill, Victoria: Singing re-wires the brain
- Teaching stroke patients to sing helps them recover their speech.
- Salkeld, Lesley: Vocal Fatigue
- Can scientific study of the voice assist choral singers?
- Scott, Daniel: Singing and brain function
- Some amazing discoveries ushering in an era of understanding.
Other matters
- Holley, Paul: Give it Life
- The greatest respect an artist can pay to music.
- Rosser, John: How to win friends and entertain people
- Choral singing for pleasure or to entertain?
- Sayer, Ron: Can you hear the people sing
- Community choirs and their value.
- Watts, Peter: Every Voice Counts
- Repertoire and Motivation for Community Choirs.
- Watts, Peter: Mentoring for choir directors
- How a Mentor can inspire and help.
- Watts, Peter: Remuneration for choir directors
- Things to consider in setting rates.
- Various: Chorus Impact Study (Chorus America)
- Various: Singing in Theatre