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Choral Journal

December 1988

Download the complete issue. Current Status of U.S. Secondary and College/University Groups and Male  Participation PART II: ANALYSIS AND SUGGESTIONS by Leonard Van Camp  The Choral Cantatas of Daniel Pinkham: An Overview by Donald Studebaker The “Swinging” Curriculum by Carolyn Livingston In The Bleak Mid Winter: A Candlelit Feast by Will Kesling



November 1988

Download complete issue. Current Status of U.S. Secondary and College/University Groups and Male Participation PART I, THE SURVEY by Leonard Van Camp German-American Choral Directors ExchangeJune 5-18, 1988 by Robert J. Russell Recruiting New Singers by Janice Killian



October 1988

Download complete issue. Obscure Carol Classics III: Publications of the Carol Society by William E. Studwell and Dorothy Jones A Choral Manifesto by Andrew Cottle Choral Competitions: Or: In The Opinion Of Pollyanna! by John Jacobson Members speak out on dues referendum



September 1988

Download complete issue. Form and Style in the Musicallsche Exequien by Heinrich Schütz by Larry Cook “A Sense of Mission”: An Interview With Daniel Moe by Corydon Carlson Obscure Carol Classics II: Richard Terry’s Two Hundred Folk Carols by William E. Studwell and Dorothy Jones The Countertenor in the Last Two Decades of the Twentieth Century by […]



August 1988

Download entire journal here. ACDA “Moving Toward The 1990s” by Duncan Couch The Choral Music of Vladimir Ussachevsky by Mark L. Mecham Obscure Carol Classics I: Charles Hutchins’ Carols Old and Carols New by William E. Studwell and Dorothy Jones Renaissance Vocal Technique for the Choral Conductor by Gary Fisher The 1988 National Junior High […]



May 1988

Download the complete issue. Guidelines and Techniques of The Barbershop Harmony Society by Robert M. Campbell Starting From Scratch by William R. Baldridge The Unaccompanied Choral Rehearsal by Jerry Ulrich International Choral Director’s Convention In Israel by Dennis Shrock Voice Health and Choral Singing: When Voice Classifications Limit Singing Ability by Leon Thurman