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Melodic Recall: Qualitative Insights on Singers’ Strategies for Memorizing Scores of Simple Songs

In a choral setting, memorizing multiple choral scores and maintaining the stability of recall can be a challenge. This study investigates strategies for memorizing scores of simple songs. Music college students with extensive choral experience memorized three unfamiliar songs and recalled them after brief one minute practice. A mixed-methods research design facilitated the integration of […]



Making Space for Inclusive Approaches: A Review of Adolescent Gender Identity in High School Choirs

Gender identity has received significant attention in choral music education, perhaps more than any other field of music education research. Issues concerning gender in choirs continue to prove challenging for adolescents and secondary school teachers. This article synthesizes a narrative literature review on gender identity research in high school choirs, offers suggestions for inclusive choral […]



Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Disengagement in the Choral Classroom: What Can We Learn from the Students?

The purpose of this study was to identify and compare eight students’ and one teacher’s perceptions of engagement/disengagement in a pluralistic choral classroom. Eight racially diverse 7th grade choir students and their teacher were interviewed to determine their perceptions of supporting conditions and behaviors that signaled engagement or disengagement. Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (Ladson-Billings, 1995a, 1995b, […]



Proceedings of the 2022 ACDA International Symposium for Research in Choral Singing

Symposium Chair: Patrick K. Freer, Georgia State UniversityProgram Chair: Bryan E. Nichols, Penn State University Keynote Address (pp 67-73): “Utilizing Multiple Research Methodologies to Examinethe Intersections of Music, Race, and Food in Brazilian Culture: Applications to Researchin Choral Music”by Elisa Dekaney, Syracuse University Symposium Abstracts (pp 74-107), presented alphabetically by last nameCompiled and Edited by […]



Bivocational Music Teaching: Liminal Spaces Between Church and School

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore the intersecting landscapes of five public school music teachers who also served as church choir directors. A specific focus was placed on how bivocational participants performed dual roles in two different contexts, and how they called upon their own preparation in music and pedagogy to […]



(Re)building the Secondary School Choir Program: An Organizational Perspective

The purpose of this qualitative inquiry was to understand secondary school choir program (re)building through an organizational lens. Participants were two music teachers who respectively founded or restored middle school choir programs in the last 10 years. Primary data included individual teacher interviews and group interviews with selected students. Secondary data came from field observations […]



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