Best choral songbooks according to redditors
We found 3 Reddit comments discussing the best choral songbooks. We ranked the 3 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 3 Reddit comments discussing the best choral songbooks. We ranked the 3 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Not an actual choir teacher but an instrumentalist who has benefited immensely from learning solfege.
-Make sure you learn the curwen hand signs in conjunction with the syllables!
https://www.amazon.ca/333-Elementary-Exercises-Sight-Singing/dp/B003AGJK6G/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1523271184&sr=8-2&keywords=333+exercises
Also, get 'Let Us Sing Correctly'
https://www.amazon.ca/Let-Us-Sing-Correctly/dp/B000ZGCLN8/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1523271216&sr=1-1&keywords=let+us+sing+correctly
The first book is just the pentatonic scale. No 'Fa' and no 'Ti'. That is to say, no half-steps (which are the hardest to tune). I promise you, if you have a good foundation of sight-singing the major/minor pentatonic scale, you'll be well on your way to reading any tonal music. Adding in those half-steps later will be easy.
Hope that helps!
The second book is to help with tuning and harmonizing. I practice it with my right hand playing one part on the piano and singing the other part.
If you have some experience teaching Orff arrangements and your kids have the chops, consider getting this book by Mary Helen Soloman-- https://www.amazon.com/Little-Christmas-Book-Helen-Solomon/dp/0934017565
I'm doing a couple tunes out of it for my Christmas concert this year. Mary Helen is a great composer.
They have 10 copies on Amazon...
https://www.amazon.com/Leonard-Falling-Presley-Arranged-Lojeski/dp/B003A0A02K/ref=nodl_