Essential Musicianship: A Comprehensive Choral Method: Voice / Theory / Sight-Reading / Performance (Essential Elements for Choir, Book 3) - Softcover

Emily Crocker; John Leavitt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0793543533 ISBN 13: 9780793543533

Publisher: Hal Leonard Music Books, 2007

Synopsis

Essential Musicianship, Book 3 by choral educators John Leavitt and Emily Crocker is a structured choral method designed for advanced high school singers, typically Grades 10–12. As part of the Essential Elements for Choir series, this level three student edition helps developing ensembles and returning choir students strengthen vocal technique, music theory understanding, and sight-reading skills through a carefully sequenced approach.

Created for both classroom use and independent study, this collection features 52 practice and performance songs for mixed, treble, and tenor bass choirs. The repertoire spans traditional, folk, sacred, and classical selections, allowing singers to apply musical concepts in a variety of stylistic contexts while building confidence in ensemble performance.

Across the book, singers engage with major and minor scales, diatonic harmony, intervals, chromaticism, modes, and both simple and complex meters. These concepts are introduced progressively, supporting consistent skill development while reinforcing reading accuracy and musical awareness.

Song List
All People That On Earth Do Dwell * All The Pretty Little Horses * Amazing Grace * An' Thou Wert My Ain Thing * Antiphonal Alleluia * Aura Lee * Awake, Arise! * Benedictus * Bound For The Promised Land * Canon * Cape Cod Girls * The Colorado Trail * Confitemini Domino * Da Pacem Domine * Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron * Deck The Hall * Down By The Riverside * Faith And Hope And Love * Fine Knacks For Ladies * Gloria! * Goin' Round The Mountain * Golden Slumbers * Good Night Ladies * Greensleeves * The Gypsy Rover * Hi-Ho The Holly * I Know Where I'm Goin' * Illumina Oculos Meos * Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning * Kumbaya * Kyrie Eleison * Locus Iste * My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean * My True Love Hath My Heart * O Mistress Mine * Oh Dear! What Can The Matter Be? * Oh! Susanna * Old Hundred * and more.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hal Leonard Music Books
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0793543533
• ISBN 13: 9780793543533
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240