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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 […]



January 2014

Download the complete issue.  (22MB)eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES International Conductors Exchange Program: Building Bridges to Chinaby T.J. Harper Eastern Division Conference Preview Western Division Conference Preview Central Division Conference Preview Southern Division Conference Preview Northwestern Division Conference Preview North Central Division Conference Preview Southwestern Division Conference Preview



December 2013

Download the complete issue. eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES Choral Works for Women by Prominent Canadian Female Composersby Hilary Apfelstadt The Conductor as Composer: An Interview with Joan Szymkoby Debra Spurgeon Path to Discovery: Programming for Women’s Chorus with Orchestraby Amanda Quist COLUMNS Repertoire & StandardsBrahms’s Dreu Geistliche Chor by Shannon Gravelle



November 2013

Download the complete issue. eCJ (Digital Choral Journal)  ARTICLES A Unique Treasure: The Latvian Choral Anthology by Vance Wolverton Continental Harmony: A Musical Celebration of the Millenniumby H. G. Young III The Influence of the Kalevala on Contemporary Finnish Choral Musicby Joshua Palkki COLUMNS Rehearsal BreaksRefuting Misconceptions 1: The Use of Vibrato in Choral Singing inthe United Kingdom […]



October 2013

Download the complete issue. eCJ (Digital Choral Journal)     ARTICLES Benjamin Britten’s Noye’s Fludde: An Intergenerational Experience for Church Music Programs by Joshua Hawkins Nannestad Factors in Teaching Foreign Language Choral Music to Studentsby Stephen Sieck J.W. Donavin’s Tennesseans (1873-1895):A Chronicle of an Influential African-American Jubilee Troup,Their Entrepreneurial Director, and Their Music by Marvin E. Latimer Jr.



September 2013

Download the complete issue. eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES Italian Grandiosity and German Pragmatism: An Analysis of Coexistant Style Traits in “Aus der Tiefe ruf ich Herr, zu dir” (SWV 25) from Heinrich Schutz’s Psalmen Davids of 1619 by Stacey Garrepy Multi-Purpose Images: How to Confuse the Choir by Lesa Jacobsen Lost in the Revival: The Sacred Music […]