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How can conductors best mentor students in developing their musicianship skills? This book describes the experience of young musicians rehearsing and performing Bach's cantata Himmelskönig Wilkommen and explores what they found most helpful from their conductor. It asks why they found five musicianship elements--solfege, inner hearing, musical memory, sight-singing, and intervals--most important. It explores the conductor's self-mentoring process during preparation for a performance of Fauré's Requiem. Further, it asks how students learned to self-mentor during a rehearsal and performance of Karl Jenkins's The Armed Man: Mass for Peace. It advocates the Conductor as Musicianship Mentor (CMM) model, in which a pedagogically sequential, voice-based musicianship program is intentionally aligned with an ensemble performance program, creating a synergy with a unique impact on learning.

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Aleta King directs the Conservatorium of Music at Avondale University. A three-time winner of coveted scholarships to the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy in Hungary, King wrote her Doctor of Musical Arts (Conducting) at Sydney University. She presents for the Oxford Conducting Institute and the International Society for Music Education and performed for HM Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. Her vocal ensemble The Promise won two gold diplomas at the World Choir Games.

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