CVMIA is a non-profit educational institution dedicated to promulgating tenets of the Cambiata Concept, a comprehensive philosophy and methodology of teaching vocal music to early adolescents.  This site provides assistance to vocal music educators and church musicians who work with students in the mid-level and secondary grades.  Choose from any of the helpful articles listed below.  

 

Tenets of the Cambiata Concept   How to Choose Music Adolescents Can Sing   Singing Four Parts with Mid-Level Students   Classifying Early Adolescent Voices   Music Should be Performed, but Not Performance Driven     A Case for Quality Music   Approaches to Teaching Boys  with Changing Voices   Different Ways Boys' Voices Change    The New Adolescent Bass   The Light Baritone   Middle-Level Uni-sex Choirs   Training the Uncertain Singer   I'm a Boy, How High Should I Sing?

Recruiting Boys to Sing in Choir   Understanding Adolescent Vocal Registers   Discipline in the Choral Classroom   The Male Changing Voice In High School   Singing Cambiata Music with Older Adolescents and Adults   Rote Teaching Melody-Part Style Music   Books That Assist Teachers of Adolescent Singers   The Challenge and Rewards of Choral Singing   Irvin Cooper, Originator of the Cambiata Concept   Motivating the Hesitant Singer