This session will concentrate on how to use dynamics, phrasing, articulation, and rubato to highlight each vocal line in order to achieve rhythmic and melodic independence. It is hoped that these guidelines will offer conductors and students the knowledge through which they can project a range of expressivity inherent in each independently flowing polyphonic voice […]
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Owen’sPoetry Lecture: Britten’s War Requiem Talk
This lecture will explore the relationship between the poetry of Wilfred Owen and the Latin Requiem text in communicating Britten’s personal feelings about war. In addition, these texts will be related to Britten’s use of musical motifs and organizational structure in creating one of the most powerful, compelling, and aesthetically significant musical masterworks of modern […]
Music and Movies: Memories and Movements
This session, through discussion and example utilizing documentary film trailers, will explore choral music in film and the impact and influence on today’s world of musical performance, composition, historical remembrance, and as a conduit for societal change. Three new and important documentary features will be presented: Requiem for my Mother follows the compositional journey of […]
August 2013
Download the complete issue. ARTICLES Missa Dei Filii ZWV20:An Introduction to the Late Masses of Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679 – 1745)by Patricia Corbin In the Footsteps of Bach: An Interview with George Christoph Billerby Rod Rothlisberger “Love and Music Are the Last Things to Go”Robert S. Cohen and Herschel; Garfein’s Alzheimer’s Storiesby Bonnie Cutsforth-Huber COLUMNS Repertoire […]
June/July 2013
Download the complete issue. eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES Creating a Choir Culture: Lessons Learned from the Business Worldby Nicole Aldrich The Diverse Communities of a Community Choir: Fostering a Sustainable Systemby K. Rickard McCoy Enriching Choral Opportunities for Aging Voicesby Sarah Parks COLUMNS Repertoire & Standards A Challenge to Our Institutes of Music Education by […]
May 2013
Download the complete issue. eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) New!!!! ARTICLES Artistry and Equality:How the Berlin Sing-Akademie Transformed Community Choral Singingby Ryan Kelly Singing for a Lifetime: Perpetuating Intergenerational Choirsby Brenda Smith and Robert T. Sataloff Stretching the Skills of Your Community Choirby Michael Kemp On the Voice “You Want Me to Do What?”Twenty-First Century Voice Pedagogy […]
