Books in the So You Want to Sing series

In a profession that is dominated by male composers, SYWTS Music by Women serves as a compendium for singers and teaches of singing who wish to explore the vast repertoire of women written by women, cutting across a wide array of styles and genres. Hoch and Lister highlight the key composers and provide tips and tools for programming their music.

This volumes provides singers a comprehensive guide to the history of and performance techniques for spirituals. Along with Jones's own considerations of dialect, improvisation, and other technical considerations, contributed chapters address collaborative piano, studio teaching, choral arrangement, and voice science and health.

This book introduces the remarkably rich and varied repertoire of early vocal music, focusing primarily on the 17th and early 18th centuries, within a historical context and explores the techniques the modern singer will need to perform and enjoy the repertoire.

This book explains how to address the spectrum of issues that ensure a healthy, long life of singing. The strategies presented will help singers maintain a youthful, vibrant voice. The text offers advice to singers, voice teachers, choral conductors, church musicians, and classroom music teachers regarding repertoire choice and exercise regimens.

Eli Yamin explores those essential elements that make the blues sound authentic and guides readers of all backgrounds and levels through mastering this art form. He provides glimpses into the musical lives of the women and men who created the blues and offers concrete explanations and exercises to improve any singer's technique and expression.

This book addresses the sacred singing traditions most commonly encountered by amateur and emerging professional singers. In each chapter, contributors consider in turn the liturgical origins, musical characteristics, training requirements, and repertoire and resources for each of these traditions.

So You Want to Sing World Music explores vocal music from around the globe. World music styles have been making increasing inroads into Western popular music, music theater, choral concerts, and even concert hall performances. This book serves as a compendium of these genres and offers technical approaches to singing non-Western styles.

As a comprehensive guide to learning, rehearsing, and performing vocal chamber music, this volume explores such critical skills as choosing repertoire appropriate for one's voice type, communicating with your ensemble, performance style, preparing for a successful rehearsal, staging considerations, and recital programming.

So You Want to Sing Cabaret is the first book to examine, in detail, the unique vocal and non-vocal requirements for this genre of music. Sabella and Matsuki provide teachers and singers with never before documented industry knowledge and the experience of venerated professionals and stars of cabaret.

This book concentrates on a range of currently popular styles in the folk genre, looking at specific repertories and ways of approaching them. It also looks at the current musical outlets that are available to singers and aims to help the fledgling singer better understand the scope of folk music and find their voice in the genre.

So You Want to Sing with Awareness brings together a variety of topics related to bodywork and mindfulness routinely practiced by singing teachers. Each chapter is written by a specialist in the field who has successfully adapted a specific method and integrated its core concepts into their pedagogy.

So You Want to Sing with Awareness brings together a variety of topics related to bodywork and mindfulness routinely practiced by singing teachers. Each chapter is written by a specialist in the field who has successfully adapted a specific method and integrated its core concepts into their pedagogy.

So You Want to Sing World Music explores vocal music from around the globe. World music styles have been making increasing inroads into Western popular music, music theater, choral concerts, and even concert hall performances. This book serves as a compendium of these genres and offers technical approaches to singing non-Western styles.

Kelly Garner thoroughly examines the techniques and methods of singing country music while briefly reviewing the rich heritage of the style. Additional topics of discussion include country song types and structure, instrumentation, performing on stage and in the studio, and career options in country music.

Trineice Robinson-Martin gathers together key information on gospel music history, vocal pedagogy, musical style and performance, and its place in music ministry. So You Want To Sing Gospel covers such vital matters as historical, cultural and spiritual perspectives on the gospel music tradition, training one's voice, understanding the dynamic of sound production, grasping gospel style, and bringing together vocal performance with ministerial imperatives.