Download the complete issue. eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES Choral Works for Women by Prominent Canadian Female Composersby Hilary Apfelstadt The Conductor as Composer: An Interview with Joan Szymkoby Debra Spurgeon Path to Discovery: Programming for Women’s Chorus with Orchestraby Amanda Quist COLUMNS Repertoire & StandardsBrahms’s Dreu Geistliche Chor by Shannon Gravelle
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November 2013
Download the complete issue. eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) ARTICLES A Unique Treasure: The Latvian Choral Anthology by Vance Wolverton Continental Harmony: A Musical Celebration of the Millenniumby H. G. Young III The Influence of the Kalevala on Contemporary Finnish Choral Musicby Joshua Palkki COLUMNS Rehearsal BreaksRefuting Misconceptions 1: The Use of Vibrato in Choral Singing inthe United Kingdom […]
October 2013
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.
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 […]
