Voiceworks 1: A Handbook for Singing

I really like this book. It has a lot of great ideas and reproducible songs with very organic arrangements. Great for a beginning choir director.

This was recommended to me by several other singing leaders, at first I was a bit reluctant to purchase it given the price... but I finally gave in and it really is an excellent resource.The introduction and warm up sections are particularly informative giving lots of suggestions for warm up activities (physical, breathing and vocal) and some great fun ice-breakers to get a group using their voices in a way that is fun. Then in the main section the range and variety of songs are great. Having the audio CDs is useful for learning the parts, checking any tricky rhythms and also for checking pronounciation of any songs that aren't in a language you are familiar with.I would recommend this to anyone working with a choir or group of singers of any age. I work with children and with a community choir of adults and this book will be really useful for both!

This is a brilliant song/work book for choir leaders. I wish I had bought it when I first started leading my choir. It has lots of excellent ideas and tips for warm-ups and exercises and how to teach each song.

This was bought as a present for my son. He was very pleased with it.