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Choral Journal

August 2014

Download the complete issue.  (11 MB)eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES Toward a Choral Pedagogy for Composersby David Conte, Robert Kyr, and Steven Sametz Writing for the Amateur Chorus by Randall Thompson Conrad Susa (1935 – 2013): Composer, Teacher, Friendcompiled by David Conte with Byron Adams, Elinor Armer, Philip Brunelle, Vance George, and Vince Peterson August […]



June/July 2014

Download the complete issue.  (11 MB)eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES Jean Gilles’s Messe des Morts: A Study in Contextual Period Performanceby Mark Ardrey-Graves Giving Patient Hope: Rethinking Brahms’s Requiemby Jeffrey J. Faux and David C. Rayl Kaspars Putniņš: A Vision of Diversity by Vance Wolverton On the VoiceChoral Directors Are from Mars and Voice Teachers are […]



May 2014

Download the complete issue.  (14 MB)eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES Fashioning compelling Stories: Enriching the Choral Singer’s Experience through Text Narrative Exploration by Philip E. Silvey Icon in Sound: An Interview with Sir John Tavener by Gregory M. Pysh Teaching for Transfer: Developing Critical Thinking Skills with Adolescent Singers by Matthew L. Garrett On the […]



April 2014

Download the complete issue.  (16 MB)eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES A Star-Spangled Bicentennial: A Conversation with Jerry Blackstone, Mark Clague, and Andrew Kuster by Jerry Blackstone, Mark Clague, and Andrew Kuster Nineteenth-Century Performance Practice: Reassessing Tradition and Revitalizing Interpretation by Deanna Joseph Musical Settings of War Texts in Two Twentieth-Century British Choral Works, Part 2 […]



March 2014

Download the complete issue.  (16 MB)eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES Cuban Choral Music: Historical Development and Modern Influencesby Jose Rivera Venezuelan Choral Composers of the 20th and 21st Centuries: A Catalogueby Maria Guinand Canada’s Choral Music Development by Hilary Apfelstadt Mexican Choral Composers: A Brief History by Jorge Cozatl COLUMNS Repertoire & StandardsThe Formula for […]



February 2014

Download the complete issue.  (13 MB)eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES Musical Settings of War Texts in Two Twentieth-Century British Choral Works, Part 1 by William Skoog The Complex Ancestry of We Shall Overcome by Victor V. Bobetsky The Choral Music of Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867 – 1972) by Donald George, Lucy Mauro, James Johnston, and Heather Eyerly […]