Download the complete issue. eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES Benjamin Britten’s Noye’s Fludde: An Intergenerational Experience for Church Music Programs by Joshua Hawkins Nannestad Factors in Teaching Foreign Language Choral Music to Studentsby Stephen Sieck J.W. Donavin’s Tennesseans (1873-1895):A Chronicle of an Influential African-American Jubilee Troup,Their Entrepreneurial Director, and Their Music by Marvin E. Latimer Jr.
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September 2013
Download the complete issue. eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES Italian Grandiosity and German Pragmatism: An Analysis of Coexistant Style Traits in “Aus der Tiefe ruf ich Herr, zu dir” (SWV 25) from Heinrich Schutz’s Psalmen Davids of 1619 by Stacey Garrepy Multi-Purpose Images: How to Confuse the Choir by Lesa Jacobsen Lost in the Revival: The Sacred Music […]
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? A New Education – Performing Polyphony: Developing Independence, Style, and Musicianship
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 […]
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 […]
