This comprehensive and engaging sourcebook is an essential guide to a productive and musical choral rehearsal written by a leading voice in choral pedagogy. Invented for choirs of all skill levels, James Jordan covers a wide range of subjects and features sections devoted to: The spirit of the rehearsal, rehearsal preparation and planning, how to listen, conducting gesture as a rehearsal technique, the accompanist and the rehearsal, skill teaching within the rehearsal, how to teach artistic phrasing and rehearsal accountability.