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.
Does your Byrd sound like Brahms? Does your Mozart feel like Mahler? The term “performance practice” strikes fear into the hearts of many conductors whose training did not include much information about this topic. This session is designed to help relieve this fear and provide strategies for feeling comfortable with music from all eras. Using […]
Seattle WA.Venture into the past on this inspiring journey through the architecture and beauty of a unique style of music and see how we will shed light on the roots of polychoral music, follow its highlights through time, and gain a deeper understanding of its historical significance. We will rehearse well-known musical pieces such as The […]
Pasadena CA.This session will investigate, experience, and sing historical tunings, timbres, and scale constructions. Composers represented will be Palestrina, Alma Redemptoris Mater; Telemann, Laudate Jehovem; Brahms, Shlafe in mir Gott; and Ives, Psalm 90. Participants will sing exercises in creating aesthetically appropriate intonations.
Pasadena CA.Boston is central to the history of choral music education in America. Early eighteenth-century Bostonians advocating for the learning of music “by note” rather than “by rote” produced America’s first two music textbooks in 1721. Singing schools spread from Boston across the Northeast, spurring the compositional creativity of William Billings and other tunesmiths from the […]
Boston MA.He was the musical mind behind the ubiquitous Three Blind Mice. He is Thomas Ravenscroft, an English musician active in the early fifteenth century. Ravenscroft is mostly known for his published collections of English Folk music, catches, and rounds, in three collections. This session will include modern transcriptions of rounds by Thomas Ravenscroft, clarifying the […]
Boston MA.
