American Choral Directors Association
The mission of ACDA is to inspire excellence and nurture lifelong involvement in choral music for everyone through education, performance, composition and advocacy.
Choirs learn, internalize, and repeat in performance what they do most often in rehearsal. Good choral pedagogy includes the separation and integration of the technical aspects of the music and the articulation of the music’s artistic and expressive content. If, however, music learning is completely separated from musical expression and artistry, or artistic concerns are […]
Little Rock AR.Implementing the national standards into the choral rehearsal continues to be a difficult task for many high school choir directors. Ideas will be presented for meeting each of the national standards during a typical choral rehearsal. Practical solutions to classroom management, planning time, and assessment will be presented.
Little Rock AR.How do you build an ACDA student chapter? Organizing an effective and productive student chapter can be quite challenging. Find out tips, strategies, and useful tools to help grow an organization. Faculty advisors and interested students can find out about hosting educational workshops, festivals, round table discussions, and fundraising.
Little Rock AR.Since the creation of the National Standards for Music Education in 1994, choral music educators have been distinctly responsible for singing varied repertoire (Standard 1) and for studying the relationships between music and world/historical cultures (Standard 9). Concurrently we have enjoyed an influx of great choral repertoire for school, community, and church choirs from around […]
Des Moines IA.This clinic will provide directors with possible ways to efficiently incorporate important aspects of jazz styles—rhythmic feel, song form, improvisation, and harmony—into the rehearsal by showing connections between these concepts and the literature the ensemble is learning.
Des Moines IA.Improve your singer’s ear for intonation and sight-reading skills by teaching solfeggio from a harmonic perspective. This session outlines a process developed by the presenter in response to frustration with unsuccessful attempts to improve intonation and sight-singing ability through other methods. By teaching solfege syllables as part of traditional harmonic progressions, students are able to […]
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