[iPad users: You’ll need a different browser to view these resources – see note below!]
I just found a collection of presentations on SlideShare by Dr. Philip Copeland (Director of Choral Activities & Associate Professor of Music at Samford University) and it is a real treasure trove. The dude is one seriously wired choral conductor. Have a look at some of his presentation titles:
Diction
- Score preparation with IPA
- Diction for Singers
- Consonants for Diction
- Diphthongs and Triphthongs
- International Phonetic Alphabet / Basics of Singing Italian
- Italian Vowel Triangle
- English Vowel Triangle
- Glides in English Diction
Music history, style, literature
- Medieval era: Part 1 (Chant), Part 2 (Other)
- Pérotin
- Guillaume de Machaut
- Brahms Requiem
Conducting
- Conducting
- Good to Great: Conducting, Rehearsal, and Discipline
- Conducting Qualification: Do you have what it takes to be a conductor?
Technology for choral conductors
- iPad for the Choral Director
- Make Today’s Technology Work for You
- Teaching Today’s Student: Technology for the 21st-Century Music Educator
- Audition Records with FileMaker Pro
Singer health
- How to Faint at the Next Choir Concert (tongue-in-cheek, but with good health advice)
Did that whet your appetite? View the full list of Dr. Copeland’s presentations here. You can also follow him on Twitter at @philipco
[N.B. for iPad users: I suggest using Puffin Web Browser Free in landscape mode to view Dr. Copeland’s presentations on SlideShare. The SlideShare website pretty much doesn’t work on Safari for iPad due to a combination of Flash and mobile website issues (as far as I can tell). There are two third-party SlideShare apps for iPad, Slide by Slide and SlidePad, but neither one gives correct results when searching by username. Alternatively, you can just view the presentations on your computer.]
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