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Choral Journal

January 2006

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December 2005

Download the complete issue. Articles G. F. Handel’s Messiah: Drama Theologicus: A Discussion of the Text with Implications for Its Performance by Wayne Barrett Arnold Bax’s Mater Ora Filium and Of a Rose I Sing a Song by Duane R. Karna Changing Bodies, Changing Voices: A Brief Survey of the Literature and Methods of Working with Adolescent […]



November 2005

Download the complete issue. Articles David Kraehenbuehl’s Drumfire Cantata by Charles Burkhart Examination of Movements 4 and 4a of Magnificat in D Wq 215 (1747-49 1780-82) by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach by Lani Johnson The Five Part-Songs for SATB by Frank Bridgeby Jane E. Andrews “I Can Tell the World” Moses George Hogan: His Life, […]



October 2005

Download the complete issue. Articles Corigliano’s Fern Hill: An Addition to the Twentieth-Century Repertoire for High School and College Choruses by Victor V. BObetsky Baltic Portraits Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, Lithuanian Composer and Painter by Vance D. Wolverton Beethoven’s Choral Director, Ignaz Karl Dirzka (1779-1827) by Grant William Cook III



September 2005

Download the complete issue. Articles Karol Szymanowsky (1882-1937) The Father of Contemporary Polish Choral Music by Richard Zielinski Choral Intonation by Kevin D. Skelton Preparing a Broadway Musical: Instrumental Considerations by Susan Bruenger A Frameword for Choral Prayer: Choral Evenson by Tim Sharp



August 2005

Download the complete issue. Articles I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Choral Settings of Children’s Poems from Terezin by Rachel Rensink-Hoff Baltic Portraits: The Next Generation of Estonian Choral Conductors. An Interview with Risto Joost by Vance D. Wolverton An Interview with Abraham Kaplan by Paul Klemme I’m Only in Women’s Chorus: A Need for Positive […]