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Choral Journal

May 2001

Download Full Issue INSIDE Connection: A Medieval Text and Twentieth Century Expressionism in Canticle of the Sun, by Amy Beach—by Betty Buchanan Adjudicated Sight-Reading for the Choral Ensemble: An Incentive for Musical Literacy by Matthew Armstrong Choral Performance Practice in the Eighteenth-Century Part Song: An Alternative Arrangement of Haydn’s Abendlied zu Gott by Steven Grives



April 2001

Download the complete issue. Articles Harmony and Language in Ginastera’s Lamentaciones de Jeremias Propheta: Implications for Rehearsal and Interpretation by Richard A. Williamson Bach in Boston: The Emergence of the St. matthew Passion, from 1868 to 1879 by Grant W. Cook, III The Swedish Sound by Gary L. Anderson Achieving Peak Performance: Rehearsal, Performance Attitudes, […]



March 2001

Download the complete issue. Articles African-American Spirituals and Gospel Music: Historical Similarities and Differences by Marvin V. Curtis Global Voices in Song: A College-Public School Partnership by Sharon Davis Gratto The Cultural Connection by Nick Page Musing About Jewish Music by Joshua R. Jacobson Far and Beyond: Resources for Unusual Multicultural Music by Suzanne Tiemstra […]



February 2001

Download the complete issue. Articles The Choral Works of Jean Cras by Paul-Andre’ Bempe’chat Baltic Portraits: Rudolph Tobias of Estonia by Vance Wolverton Adapting Choral Rehearsal for Students with Learning Disabilities by Vicki R. Lind



January 2001

Download the complete issue. Articles Convention Overview and Expanded Schedules Major Works Concert Robert Shaw Tribute Professional Choirs International Choirs National Honors Choir and Texas All-State Choir Auditioned Choirs Interest Sessions Breakfast Roundtables Student Conducting Competitions



December 2000

Download the complete issue Articles A guide to a Historically Accurate Performance of Edvard Grieg’s Fire Salmer (Four Psalms), op. 74 by Mary Buch Selected Examples of Choreinbau in the Cantatas of J.S. Bach by Pat Flannagan An Interview with Robert Porco by Jonathan Talberg 1999-2000 All State Choirs: Choral Literature and Conductors by Rebecca R. Reames […]