Current Projects

Research Publications in Progress:
Richard Cox, Subcommittee Chair (Melina O’Neal)

• Choral Music of Felix Mendelssohn- Dr. Ray Robinson

• Boy Choirs- Dr. Randall Wolfe

• Nineteenth Century Choral Music: An Annotated Bibliography of Music Suitable for College and University Choirs-Dr. Donald Trott

• Monograph on Benjamin Britten- Dr. Richard Cox

Library of Congress: “American Choral Music: 1870-1923”:

John Silantien, Subcommittee Chair (William Belan, Joan Conlon, Donald Oglesby, Melinda O’Neal)

The Library of Congress and ACDA have joined formally into a historic agreement to build a webpage at the LOC entitled “American Choral Music: 1870-1923.” The site launched Phase One with 26 pieces of choral music in April, 2008 within the Library’s website (www.loc.gov) in the “Performing Arts Encyclopedia.” Phase Two has been approved to add 50 more pieces to the project. Phase Two is scheduled to launch in August, 2009.

The purpose of the site is to provide:

• important American choral repertoire for choral conductors to download legally, and with cost, in order to enhance programming;
• significant introductions on the composers and the music;
• supporting graphic materials and links to other sites;
• published works by American composers;
• works that are in the public domain;
• works that, as a group, are a combination of sacred and secular, mixed chorus, women’s chorus and men’s chorus;
• brief works less than 10 minutes in length;
• works that are unaccompanied or are accompanied by a limited number of concerted instruments

Poster Sessions at National ACDA Conferences

Contact Grant Cook, Heidelberg College, for information about application for participation in these sessions.