A large portion of Latin American sacred music and all nationalistic madrigals are unaccompanied while popular music tends to be accompanied by traditional instruments. Composers and arrangers began to infuse their unaccompanied music with unique regional sounds by using voices to imitate traditional instruments or included eurhythmics as a compositional resource. These explorations have resulted […]
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Starting a Group
When Deke Sharon (Pitch Perfect, NBC’s The Sing Off) founded the Contemporary A Cappella Society of America, there were two hundred college unaccompanied groups in the United States, and now there are over two thousand, with countless high school ensembles following closely behind. This session will teach you the best way to find members, run […]
Salamu Aleikum – Music of the Muslim World
This session focuses on the repertoire of the Muslim world by having participants learn of the great diaspora of music by singing a selection of pieces from various social, cultural, and linguistic contexts. Attendees will be able to acquire practical ideas for performance and strategies for how to locate and sing this repertoire artistically and […]
The Philippines: Choral Music from the Singing Nation
This session surveys the current choral landscape in the Philippines with specific attention to principle and younger composers, and to repertoire, publications, online resources, and performance considerations. Attendees will receive handouts with repertoire resources and information to support new connections, programming, and quality performances of Philippine choral music.
Origins of the English Choral Tradition and How the English Sing
The English are famous for their choral tradition. Yet, with the sixteenth-century reformations, the musically austere commonwealth in the seventeenth century, and relative lack of “home-grown” talent in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, one technically shouldn’t exist. This session will explore why and how the English sing, the origins of SATB scoring and the countertenor […]
Nā Lani ’ Ehā – The Royal Composers with the Hawai’i Youth Opera Chorus
This session gives the opportunity to share the music of Na Lani ’Eha with the intent to be a resource for the melee (song) and subsequent arrangements. Na Lani ’Eha wrote their music for their people, so the session will present melee in a fashion so that it is accessible to all ages and all […]
