Essential Musicianship (Essential Elements for Choir) by John Leavitt and Emily Crocker is a Level 3 teacher edition designed for developing choral ensembles. Created as part of a structured curriculum, this comprehensive resource supports choir directors working with mixed, treble, or tenor bass groups, combining vocal training, music literacy, and ensemble performance in one cohesive program.
Designed for classroom instruction, rehearsal, and concert preparation, this collection integrates voice-building exercises, theory development, and sight-reading practice with a diverse repertoire of traditional, classical, and folk songs.
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 * Shalom Chaveyrim (Shalom Friends) * She Sells Sea Shells * She Walks In Beauty * Shenandoah * The Silver Moon Is Shining * Since First I Saw Your Face * Sing A Joyful Song * Sit Down, Brother * Soldier, Soldier * Swing Low, Sweet Chariot * Teach Me, O Lord * Tex-I-An Boys * Vive La Compagnie! * Walk In Jerusalem, Just Like John * Water Is Wide * When The Saints Go Marching In * Where Go The Boats?