A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ARTICLES, BOOKS, DISSERTATIONS AND PAPERS, VIDEORECORDINGS, AND WEB SITES PERTAINING TO THE ART OF BOYCHOIR MUSIC ARTICLES Coffman, Wesley. The Changing Boy s Voice The Elementary Challenge. Choral Journal (October 1987): 5-20. Eshelman, Darla. Leading a Renaissance in Training Adolescent Singers. Choral Journal (October 1992): 23-27. Hill, David. Training Young Boys Voices. Choral Journal (October 1992): 19-21. Maddocks, Fiona. Angels with Dirty Faces? The Vienna Boys Choir. BBC Music Magazine (December 1994): 24-29. Root, Arlene. Boychoirs: A Brief History. Choristers Guild Letters (February 1969): 107. Root, Arlene. The Development of the Boychoir from the Time of David to the Present. Triangle of Mu Phi Epsilon (Fall 1959): 23. Sider, Ronald. Interviews with the Directors of Five English Choirs of Men and Boys. Choral Journal (September 1991): 9-19. Spahn, Claus. His master s voices: The St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig. Lufthansa Bordbuch (January/February 1994): 6-16. Webster, Richard. Building a Boy Choir. The American Organist (August 1980): 32-34. BOOKS Barham, Terry J. and Nelson, Darolyne. The Boy s Changing Voice. CPP/Belwin, 1991. EL03594. Bartle, Jean Ashworth. Lifeline for Children s Choir Directors. Toronto: Gordon Thompson
Music, 1988. Beausay II, William. Boys! Shaping Ordinary Boys into Extraordinary Men. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1994. Bertalot, John. 5 Wheels to Successful Sightsinging. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1993. Busch, Beatrice Fehring. My Father, Sir John. Cincinnati: Beatrice Fehring Busch, 1997. Curwen, J. Spencer. The Boy s Voice. London: J. Curwen & Sons. Dawson, John J. The Voice of the Boy. New York/Chicago: Laidlaw Brothers, 1902. Endler, Franz, ed. Vienna Choir Boys. Translated by Stephen Temmer. Vienna: J & V Edition Wien, 1987. Finn, Father William J. The Art of the Choral Conductor. Guest, George H. A Guest at Cambridge. Orleans, Massachusetts: Paraclete Press, 1994. Gurian, Michael. The Wonder of Boys: What Parents, Mentors and Educators Can Do to Shape Boys into Exceptional Men. New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 1996. Howard, Francis E. The Child-Voice in Singing: Treated from a Physiological and a Practical Standpoint and Especially Adapted to Schools and Boy Choirs. New York: H. W. Gray Co, 1895. Johnson, Claude E. The Training of Boys Voices. Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1906. McKenzie, Duncan. Training the Boy s Changing Voice. Rutgers University Press, 1956. Maile, Roger. A Choir for All Seasons. Creative Monochrome, 1990. ISBN 1-873319-00-2. Mellalieu, W. Norman. The Boy s Changing Voice. London: Oxford University Press, 1935.
Nicholson, Sidney. Boys Choirs. New York: Patterson Publ. Noble, T. Tertius. The Training of the Boy Chorister. Pollack, William, Ph. D. Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood. New York: Random House, 1998. Schnitt, Josef. Die Wiener Sangerknaben. Vienna: Wilhelm Frick-Verlag am Graben, 1953. Stubbs, G. Edward. Practical Hints on the Training of Choir Boys. New York: H. W. Gray Co. (Novello & Co.), 1888. Turnbull, Dr. Walter. Lift Every Voice. New York: Hyperion, 1995. Welles, Joan. Managing Young Choirs. Vol. 1, The Board of Directors. Deerfield, Illinois: Managing Young Choirs, 1995. Welles, Joan. Managing Young Choirs. Vol. 2, Promoting and Fund-Raising. Deerfield, Illinois: Managing Young Choirs, 1995. DISSERTATIONS AND PAPERS Goetze, Mary. Factors Affecting Accuracy in Children s Singing. Ph.D. thesis, University of Colorado, 1985. Plum, Nancy. Sing, Choirs of Angels: A Historical Overview and Profiles of Boychoirs in England and America. MA project, Trenton State College. Rhoden, D. C. Community-related Boy Choirs in the United States. Doctoral diss., Florida State University, 1971. Sewell, Donald Ray. A Guide to the Formation and Cultivation of an Effective Community Boychoir Program. DMA diss., The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1990. VIDEORECORDINGS Almost Angels. Produced by Walt Disney. 93 minutes. Walt Disney, 1962.
Amahl and the Night Visitors. Produced by Worldvision Home Video, distributed by Video Artists International. 52 minutes. 1986. Austria: The Land of Music (including the Vienna Choir Boys). Produced by International Video Network. 51 minutes. 1989. ISBN 0-929756-06-1. Bach, Beethoven, and Buses: The Columbus Boychoir. 40 minutes. Carols for Christmas (includes solos by Aled Jones). Produced by NVC ARTS, distributed by Kultur International Films. 60 minutes. Kultur. ISBN 1-56127-430-5. The Choir. Available only in the United Kingdom. Christmas with the Vienna Boys Choir. Produced by C3 Film GmbH & Co. KG, Vienna. 35 minutes. Laserlight, 1995. Maryland State Boychoir, The. Produced by the Maryland State Boychoir. 20 minutes. 1997. Pavarotti, Domingo, & Friends (including the Vienna Boys Choir). Distributed by European American Industries. 57 minutes. Metacom, Inc., 1992. Perfect Harmony. Produced by Walt Disney. 93 minutes. Walt Disney. ISBN 1-55890-870-6. Pursuit of Excellence (Vienna Choir Boys). 38 minutes. Singing and Growing (Parts I and II). Produced by the Phoenix Boys Choir. 120 minutes. 1994. Story of Silent Night, The. (featuring the Vienna Boys Choir). Produced and distributed by Questar, Inc. 55 minutes. 1996. Touring Austria (including the Vienna Boys Choir). Produced by Encounter Video, distributed by Questar Video, Inc. 60 minutes. Questar Video, 1988. ISBN 0-927992-13-2. Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus: A Tradition of Excellence. Produced by Ackerley Advertising and KVOA-TV Tucson. Ackerley Advertising, 1989.
Vienna Boys Choir Sing Mozart. Produced by ORF/ZDF. 72 minutes. Philips, 1990. WEBSITES http://www.fransnet.clara.net. International Directory of Boys Choirs. http://www.treble.org/. The Boychoir Symposium. Links to 48 American boychoirs and boychoirs from 20 other countries.