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Mentoring in the ensemble arts : helping others find their voice / Tim Sharp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sharp, Tim.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Vocational guidance.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (174 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : GIA Publications, Inc., [2011]
- Summary:
- Tim Sharp is a choral conductor and clinician and the executive director of the American Choral Directors Association, the national professional association for choral conductors, educators, scholars, students, and choral music industry representatives in the United States. In this capacity, he represents choral activity in the United States to the International Federation of Choral Music. He is a former dean of fine arts at Rhodes College and a former director of choral activities at Belmont University. He is the author of essays on regional music history, acoustics, creativity, innovation, and aesthetics. He lives in Edmond, Oklahoma.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Recitative
- The Mentoring Environment of the Ensemble
- Acknowledgments
- Arioso
- Mentoring Defined
- The Renaissance Bottega
- Our Early Mentors
- The "Why?" of Mentoring
- A Personal Word
- Our Reason for Being
- Aria
- 1. Listening for the Voice
- Framing the Mentoring Environment
- Generativity
- The Power of the Mentor
- The Conductor-Mentor and the Ensemble-Protégé
- Are Mentors Born or Built?
- 2. Hearing the Voice
- Beginning the Mentoring Process and Relationship
- The Mentor as Leader
- The Ongoing Process of Generativity
- The Mentoring Environment
- The Ensemble Mentoring Environment
- Why Mentor, Why Protégé ?
- 3. Responding to the Voice
- Moving to Mentoring
- The Imperative of Interconnectedness
- Skill Set
- The Protégé and the Mentor
- What We Learn and What We Do
- The Primary Ethical Obligation of Mentors
- Guidelines as the Mentor Begins
- 4. Refining the Voice
- Lessons from Greatness
- Locate Greatness
- Mentoring to Greatness
- The Continuous Mentor
- The Ensemble as Mentor
- Life and the Question "Why?" as Mentor
- References
- About The Author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 1-62277-050-1
- OCLC:
- 861536962
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