This guide focuses on developing essential strategies to foster a positive group culture. It emphasizes practical techniques that empower individuals to influence team dynamics and enhance collaboration. Readers will discover methods to improve communication, build trust, and create an inclusive environment that encourages participation and innovation. Through actionable insights, the book aims to equip leaders and team members with the tools needed to cultivate a thriving group atmosphere.
"Musical theatre students and performers are frequently asked to learn musical material in a short space of time; sight-read pieces in auditions; collaborate with accompanists; and communicate musically with peers, directors, music directors and choreographers. Many of these students and performers will have had no formal musical training. This book offers a series of lessons in music fundamentals, including theory, sight-singing and aural tests, giving readers the necessary skills to navigate music and all that is demanded of them, without having had a formal music training. It focuses on the skills required of the musical theatre performer and draws on musical theatre repertoire in order to connect theory with practice. Throughout the book, each musical concept is laid out clearly and simply with helpful hints and reminders. The author takes the reader back to basics to ensure full understanding of each area. As the concepts begin to build on one another, the format and process is kept the same so that readers can see how different aspects interrelate. Through introducing theoretical ideas and putting each systematically into practice with sight-singing and ear-training, the students gain a much deeper and more integrated understanding of the material, and are able to retain it, using it in voice lessons, performance classes and their professional lives. Music Fundamentals for Musical Theatre allows aspirational performers - and even those who aren't enrolled on a course - to access the key components of music training that will be essential to their careers"-- Provided by publisher
When Tipper, a chocolate Labrador, wakes up, she finds herself in a strange and marvelous place. The last thing she remembers is a man in scrubs leaning over her just before she fell asleep. And now all her pain is gone-she feels like a puppy again! She then meets St. Bernard, who explains that he will help her transition in her new home. She meets a human little girl named Maya, and they quickly become friends. As she and Maya get to know this land beyond the clouds, Tipper encounters a horse she knew from her time on the farm and makes friends with both humans and animals alike. Together, she and Maya must learn their purpose-the assignment they will take on in their new lives. Then they will earn their wings and officially become angels. In this novella, a dog and a little girl build a new life together in the land beyond the clouds, reminding us that our lost animals and loved ones are happy and doing great things.
