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Choral Journal

May 2004

Download the complete issue. Articles An Interview with Joseph Flummerfelt by Pearl Shangkuan A Canadian Choral Tradition by Victoria Meredith Women’s Choral Literature by Catherine Roma



April 2004

Download the complete issue. Articles “This Dreadful Winnowing-Fan”: Rhetoric of War in Edward Elgar’s The Spirit of England by Alan Houtchens & Janis P. Stout Check Your Intonation by Thomas Wine Phonetic Fun and Frolic: Alliteration in Elizabethan Part Songs by Chris White



March 2004

Download the complete issue. Articles Musica: The Evolution of a Library by Michael Shasberger Practical Applications of ChoralNet in the Choral Methods Class by Galen Darrough Choral Music and Print on demand by Tim Sharp Recording Your Choir by Charles L. Fuller



February 2004

Download the complete issue. Articles A Preview of the American Choral Directors Association Robert Shaw Institute for Choral Music by Gene Brooks Thematic Transformation in Mendelssohn’s Lobegesang by John Curtis Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast: A Masterly Storytelling by Ryan Kelly The Centenary Year of Unding Smith Moore: Dean of Black Women Composers by Philip Burnelle



January 2004

Download the entire issue. Divisions Eastern Division Convention Preview Western Division Convention Preview Central Division Convention Preview Southern Division Convention Preview Northwestern Division Convention Preview



December 2003

Download the complete issue. Articles The Magnificent Rise and Call of ACDA (1959 to 2003) by Gene Brooks Brahms and the “Clara Emblem”: Musical Allusion as a Key to Understanding the Thematic Sources at the Heart of Ein deutsches Requiem by James John Divo Aloysio Sacrum: James MacMillan’s Early Motet as Exemplar of His Mature […]