169 Rare Old Books on Choir Conducting and Singing church choirs choral directing vocal training voice lessons tips - Instant PDF Download

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The Digital Library is proud to present this stunning virtual archive of 169 rare, vintage and hard-to-find books compiled together for the first time in one unique virtual library covering all aspects of SINGING, VOICE TRAINING, CHOIRS & CHORAL ORCHESTRATION.

Discover the art of singing in all its branches. Learn about choral orchestration, conduction and the best methods of vocal training for choirs. Read about voice training, the basis of tone-production, vocal pronunciation and the methods of correct breathing. Study the theory and practice behind singing with these wonderful vintage manuals and exercises. Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference material. Overall, an absolute must for anyone with an interest in singing, voice training, choir conduction and church music. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

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The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:


A complete method of singing, a theoretical and practical treatise on the art of singing - E. Sedie (1894)

A history of the choir and music of Trinity Church, New York, from its organization, to the year 1897 - A. H. Messiter (1907)

A lecture on the art of singing - V. Cirillo (1882)

A Manual of church music - W. H. Walter (1860)

A manual of singing for the use of choir-trainers and schoolmasters - R. Mann (1893)

A third book in vocal music wherein the study of musical structure is pursued through the consideration of complete melodic forms and practice based on exercises related to them - E. Smith (1901)

A treatise on the training of boy's voices and chapters on choir organization - G. T. Fleming (1920)

Accuracy of the voice in simple pitch singing - W. R. Miles (1914)

Advanced ear-training and sight-singing as applied to the study of harmony - G. A. Wedgwood (1922)

An address to the Wesleyan Methodists on congregational singing - J. Gill (1841)

Baker's formation and cultivation of the voice; a complete and practical method of vocalization - B. F. Baker (1856)

Caruso and the art of singing, including Caruso's vocal exercises and his practical advice to students and teachers of singing - S. Fucito (1922)

Caruso's method of voice production the scientific culture of the voice - P. M. Marafioti (1922)

Choir and chorus conducting - a treatise on the organization, management, training, and conducting of choirs and choral societies - F. W. Wodell (1919)

Choir training based on voice production - A. M. Richardson (1899)

Choirs and choral music - A. Mees (1911)

Choral orchestration - C. Forsyth (1920)

Choral technique and interpretation - H. Coward (1914)

Choralkunde - G. Doring (1865) (German text)

Church choir training - J. Troutbeck (1879)

Class and chorus - a text book for chorus classes, singing schools, public schools and institutes - D. B. Towner (1901)

Clergy and choir - C. R. Hodge (1891)

Complete method for rhythmical articulation - P. Bona (1905)

Complete method of singing - L. Lablache (1920)

Correct principles of classical singing - M. Heinrich (1910)

Course of three lectures on choir training - R. Richards (1903)

Draft of laws, constitution, objects, etc. - Church Choir Guild (1892)

Early history of singing - W. J. Henderson (1921)

Ear-training and sight-singing applied to elementary musical theory - G. A. Wedge (1921)

Educational vocal studies - a method of elementary sight-singing graded exercises, songs, rudiments, etc. - J. D. Brunk (1912)

Expression in singing, including thirty-one exercises for voice culture - J. Howard (1904)

Famous gospel hymns - D. B. Towner (1907)

Fifty lessons for the medium part of the voice - G. Concone (1910)

Fifty steps in sight-singing - A. Somervell (1910)

First music reader - a course of exercises in the elements of vocal music and sight-singing - L. W. Mason (1873)

Five years of vocal study under Fernando Michelena - M. A. Field (1922)

French diction for singers and speakers - W. H. Arnold (1912)

French musical diction - an orthologic method for acquiring a perfect pronuciation in the speaking and especially in the singing of the French language - C. Thurwanger (1910)

Garcia's new treatise on the art of singing. A compendious method of instruction, with examples and exercises for the cultivation of the voice - M. Garcia (1800)

Gospel hymns - J. H. Brookes (1871)

Gospel hymns and sacred songs Vol. 1 - P. P. Bliss (1875)

Gospel hymns and sacred songs Vol. 2 - P. P. Bliss (1875)

Gospel hymns No's. 1 - 6 - I. D. Sankey (1895)

Graded studies in sight-singing, for individual or class use - G. Viehl (1896)

Guide in the art of singing - G. L. Osgood (1874)

Gymnastics of the voice - a system of correct breathing in singing and speaking - O. Guttmann (1884)

Harmonia - progressive exercises and songs for four-part chorus of mixed voices - L. R. Lewis (1904)

Hints on singing - M. Garcia (1894)

How shall I practice - Practical suggestions to students of vocal music - J. Rosewald (1891)

How to breathe, speak and sing - R. Stephenson (1914)

How to sing - a complete treatise on singing with practical illustrations and diagrams - W. Griffiths (1900)

How to sing - L. Lehmann (1895)

How to sing a song - the art of dramatic and lyric interpretation - Y. Guilbert (1918)

How to start a men's choir - W. J. Kidner (1897)

Jenny Lind; a record and analysis of the method of the late Madame Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt - W. S. Rockstro (1894)

L'art du chant; méthode pratique en quatre parties, composées par Mathilde de Castrone Marchesi - M. Marchesi (1877)

Les chants de la vie - G. Kastner (1854) (French text)

Lessons on the practice of singing - with an addition of the church tunes, in four parts, and a collection of hymns; canon, airs and catches, for the improvement of beginners - C. Gilson (1754)

Lyric diction for singers, actors and public speakers - D. D. Jones (1913)

Madame Sainton-Dolby's tutor for English singers (Ladies' voices) A complete course of practical instruction in the art of singing - C. H. Sainton-Dolby (1850)

Manual of Christian psalmody - a collection of psalms and hymns, for public worship - L. Mason (1832)

Manual of church music - W. J. Finn (1905)

Manual of the Boston Academy of Music for instruction in the elements of vocal music, on the system of Pestalozzi - L. Mason (1836)

Melodia; a comprehensive course in sight-singing - S. W. Cole (1909)

Memoirs of a New England village choir - S. Gilman (1829)

Methodical sight singing - F. W. Root (1904)

Modern music and musicians for vocalists - L. C. Elson (1918)

Musical diction - C. Thurwanger (1910)

Musical education and vocal culture for vocalists and teachers of singing - A. B. Bach (1898)

Musical theory - J. Curwen (1898)

Musurgia vocalis - an essay on the history and theory of music, and on the qualities, capabilities, and management of the human voice - I. Nathan (1836)

My life and the story of the gospel hymns and of sacred songs and solos - I. D. Sankey (1907)

New England Conservatory course in sight-singing - S. W. Cole (1903)

New method of sight-singing, a simple and practical system of reading and singing music at sight - J. Jordan (1883)

Panseron's a b c of music; a primer of vocalization containing the elements of music and solfeggi - A. Panseron (1908)

Physical and vocal training - L. B. Monroe (1911)

Piano and song; how to teach, how to learn, and how to form a judgement of musical performances - F. Weich (1875)

Practical discourse on some principles of hymn-singing - R. S. Bridges (1899)

Practical hints on boy choir training - G. E. Stubbs (1888)

Practical singing tutor for mezzo-sop. or alto (complete and in four parts) - F. Abt (1921)

Prayers for the choir - C. G. Osgood (1900)

Pronunciation for singers - A. J. Ellis (1908)

Resonance in singing and speaking - T. Fillebrown (1911)

Righini's celebrated vocal studies - V. Righini (1897)

Sacred songs, ancient and modern - J. Hiles (1850)

School of choir singing - a one-year course in singing for older and newer choirs - F. M. Christiansen (1916)

Second music reader - a course of exercises in the elements of vocal music and sight-singing - L. W. Mason (1882)

Singing in elementary schools - A. Watkins (1885)

Songs in sol-fa for the Sunday school, day school and singing school, containing a brief course of instruction, and a graded selection of songs in the tonic sol-fa system - T. F. Seward (1882)

Speech in song - being the singer's pronouncing primer of the principal European languages for which vocal music is usually composed - E. J. Ellis (1878)

Suggestions in aid of devotion and godliness, designed chiefly for choristers - W. J. Seabury (1878)

Ten singing lessons - M. Marchesi (1901)

The adult male alto or counter-tenor voice - G. E. Stubbs (1908)

The art of breathing as the basis of tone-production - L. Kofler (1897)

The art of improving the voice and ear - J. Rennie (1825)

The art of singing - W. Shakespeare (1909)

The art of singing - W. W. Cazalet (1912)

The art of singing and vocal declamation - C. Santley (1908)

The art of the singer - practical hints about vocal technics and style - W. J. Henderson (1906)

The art of training choir boys - G. C. Martin (1896)

The art of voice-production with special reference to the methods of correct breathing - A. A. Pattou (1882)

The boy's voice - a book of practical information on the training of boys' voices for church choirs - J. S. Curwen (1896)

The child-voice in singing, treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint, and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs - F. E. Howard (1898)

The choirtrainer's art - A. M. Richardson (1914)

The choral tradition; an historical and analytical survey from the sixteenth century to the present day - P. M. Young (1908)

The Choral tribute - a collection of new church music, for choirs, singing schools, conventions - L. O. Emerson (1869)

The choral union - an improved text book in the first principles of singing by note - H. R. Palmer (1884)

The Chorales, their origin and influence - A. W. Wilson (1920)

The coronation - a new collection of music for choirs and singing schools - T. F. Seward (1872)

The cythara - a collection of sacred music - I. B. Woodbury (1854)

The educational music course - A. T. Cringan (1907)

The empire of song - containing theory and practice lessons for singing classes - G. F. Root (1887)

The essentials of choir boy training - W. H. Hall (1906)

The garland of song - a collection of sacred and secular music, for singing schools, choirs, conventions, high schools and academies - S. M. Lutz (1880)

The history of forty choirs - T. Hastings (1854)

The hygiene of the vocal organs. A practical handbook for singers and speakers - M. Mackenzie (1888)

The ideal a collection of new music, consisting of duets, quartets, hymn-tunes, anthems - designed for singing schools, musical institutes, conventions - L. O. Emmerson (1881)

The lost vocal art and its restoration, with practical exercises for the use of singers and teachers - W. W. Shaw (1914)

The Marchesi vocal method - M. Marchesi (1910)

The mechanism of the human voice - E. Benhke (1890)

The natural method of voice production in speech and song - F. S. Muckey (1915)

The new musical quiver - a choice collection of sacred & secular music for singing classes, institutes, conventions & choral societies - L. S. Leason (1883)

The new third music reader, based largely upon C. H. Hohmann, showing the harmonic relations of sounds - L. W. Mason (1894)

The normal music course. A series of exercises, studies, and songs defining and illustrating the art of sight reading - J. W. Tufts (1895)

The one line psalmist - embracing Day and Beal's new musical notation and sight-singing method - H. W. Day (1849)

The palace of song - a collection of new music adapted to the wants of singing classes, choirs, institutes and musical conventions - G. F. Root (1879)

The psychology of singing; a rational method of voice culture based on a scientific analysis of all systems, ancient and modern - D. C. Taylor (1917)

The realm of song, containing theory and practice lessons in vocal music, a graded singing school course - G. F. Root (1882)

The renaissance of the vocal art - E. J. Myer (1902)

The Sabbath bell - a collection of music for choirs, musical associations, singing-schools, and the home circle - G. F. Root (1856)

The science of the art of singing - A. Lankow (1903)

The shawm - a library of church music, embracing about one thousand pieces - W. Bradbury (1853)

The singer and his art - T. Wronski (1921)

The singers preceptor, or Corri's treatise on vocal music - D. Corri (1811)

The Singing master - W. E. Hickson (1840)

The singing of the future - D. T. Davies (1907)

The singing voice and its training - M. S. Mackinlay (1910)

The sol-fa system of teaching singing - J. Greenwood (1879)

The standard course of lessons and exercises in the tonic sol-fa method of teaching music - J. Curwen (1892)

The teacher's handbook of the tonic solfa system; a guide to the teaching of singing in schools by the tonic sol-fa system - A. T. Cringan (1889)

The teacher's manual - C. E. Leslie (1892)

The technics of bel canto - G. P. Lamperti (1905)

The third music reader - C. E. Whiting (1893)

The tonic sol-fa music course for schools. A series of exercises and songs in the tonic sol-fa method, progressively arranged in steps - D. Batchellor (1884)

The tonic sol-fa music reader - a course of instruction and practice in the tonic sol-fa method of teaching singing - T. F. Seward (1890)

The voice in singing - E. Seiler (1879)

Thirty exercises for the voice - G. Concone (1908)

Thirty voice-training exercises - E. Behnke (1878)

Three hundred & ninety-six two part exercises, for choirs and schools - J. Greenwood (1883)

Tonic sol-fa - J. Curwen (1893)

Twenty elementary and progressive vocalises - S. Marchesi (1899)

Vocal art-science and its application - F. E. Miller (1917)

Vocal mastery - H. Brower (1920)

Vocal physiology and the teaching of singing - D. D. Slater (1908)

Vocalises - M. Bordogni (1890)

Vocalism, its structure and culture from an English standpoint - W. H. Breare (1904)

Voice and nerve control - J. Ranske (1915)

Voice and song - a practical method for the study of singing - J. Smith (1907)

Voice building and tone placing, showing a new method of relieving injured vocal cords by tone exercises - H. H. Curtis (1896)

Voice culture for children; a practical primer on the cultivation and preservation of young voices, with exercises for the use of schools, choirs, solo-boys (pt. 1) - J. Bates (1907)

Voice culture for children; a practical primer on the cultivation and preservation of young voices, with exercises for the use of schools, choirs, solo-boys (pt. 2) - J. Bates (1907)

Voice production in singing and speaking, based on scientific principles - W. Mills (1913)

Voice training for choirs and schools - C. Rootham (1912)

Voice training for school children - F. R. Rix (1910)

Voice training in speech and song - H. H. Hulbert (1912)

Voice, song, and speech - a practical guide for singers and speakers; from the combined view of vocal surgeon and voice trainer - L. Browne (1886)

Vollständige Chorschule - A. B. Marx (1860) (German text)

What every singer should know; heart to heart talks with vocal students and those contemplating voice culture - M. Ryan (1916)

Worship & music, suggestions for clergy and choirmasters - G. Gardner (1919)



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