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.
This session is an exploration of performance practices that help to make the music of the Renaissance era more understandable and appealing, more accessible to performers and audiences, and more worthy of programming and appreciation. Topics to be covered include: pitch, performing forces, meter and tempo, phrasing, text underlay, and musica ficta.
MinneapolisHeitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) established himself as the most influential Brazilian composer of his generation and beyond. His prolific output reveals his desire to improve the level of music education in Brazil during the second quarter of the twentieth century and develop a true national style. At the core of his musical language are his famous […]
Kansas City MO.The Renaissance era provided us with many works that are both wonderful teaching pieces and beautiful works of art. What can we do to make this repertoire more available to young choral musicians? This session will demonstrate how early music can be more accessible for children’s, middle, and high school choirs with the use of […]
Kansas City MO.Teaching singers the vocalisms of a choral masterwork can be assisted by using rehearsal warm-ups crafted from the composition itself. This session will use the choruses from Handel’s Messiah to demonstrate how easy it is to design repertoire-specific exercises and how using them can be much more effective than using generic warm-ups. Participants in this […]
Jason Paulk, Ryan KellyDo you avoid programming Baroque repertoire? You can make Baroque music enjoyable for your choir, perform it well, and develop versatile singers. This session will explore stylistic vocal techniques, historical practice guidelines, and use of foreign languages to enhance your performances, and how to make an orchestral-reduction accompaniment more playable. Participants will leave with stylistically […]
Kansas City MO.It is incredibly beneficial to expose young singers to the masterworks of the choral cannon. Utilizing the works of J. S. Bach in the context of sight-reading and performance provides students with knowledge and understanding of the preeminent composer of the Baroque era. Brian Murray will explore strategies for selecting and teaching appropriate repertoire by […]
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