This interest session offers some creative rehearsal strategies based on the concept that composers often leave “musical clues” in their scores for us to discover and help bring the music to life. These clues—found in text-settings, melodic shapes, harmonies, rhythms, and even the printed expressive markings (dynamics, articulations etc.)—can be the sources that inform and […]
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September 2012
Download the complete issue. ARTICLES Johannes Brahms Opus 62: Sieben Lieder fur gemischten Chor, Seven Unaccompanied Songs for Mixed Chorus: A Detailed Exploration, Part 1by Marika Kuzma Mozart’s Misericordias Domini: A Conductor’s Guide by David Rayl and Ryan Kelly Chen Yi: Composing to Honor Her Past by Michael Murphy On the Voice Constructing the Voice: Present and Future […]
Choir is … The Meanings of the Choral Experience Grades 7-12
While music making is essential to the choral experience, the meanings found by choral students in grades 7–12 are far from confined to notes, rhythms, or vocal technique. Through a session using the responses of 200 choral students, the presenter will discuss the dominant themes of meaning found by these singers. Utilizing the students’ own […]
Heart, Head, Hands: Self-Renewing Skills for Conducting/Ensemble Leading
This session will explore the means that are always available to us for self-refreshing, focus, and self-renewal: drawingon innate musical talent and love of music; using a variety of personal learning styles to find the essence of music; allowing personal conducting gestures to organically arise from musical ideas.
Building Literacy and Musicianship Skills into the Choral Rehearsal: Rhythm
Participants will explore how we “learn’” music through hearing and imitating patterns before reading and writing. The TAKADIMI rhythm-pedagogy system and techniques for developing rhythm reading readiness, literacy, audiation, musical memory, dictation, and elementary composition will be addressed.
The Wonder Years
Come witness this “informance,” featuring singers from the Madison Youth Choir’s Holst Boychoir, that will focus on music selection, voice change, encouraging boys to keep singing, and strategies for a comprehensive rehearsal.
