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.
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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.
August 2012
Download the complete issue. ARTICLES From the Bench: Facilitating Collaborative Support from the Choral Accompanist by Kayla Liechty Paulk The Charles Hirt Papers: An Overview by Marvin E. Latimer For more photos from the Charles Hirt Collection click here (30MB) The Three Extant Masses of Claudio Monteverdi by Vaughn Roste 2012 ACDA Division Conference Honor […]
June/July 2012
Download the complete issue. ARTICLES Choral Music in the White House by Donald Trott Choral Music in the White House: An Afterword by Donald Oglesby The ACDA National Symposium on American Choral Music: The Search for an American Style by John Silantien A Copland Portrait: Memories of a Friendship and Thoughts about His Influence on […]
May 2012
Download the complete issue. ARTICLES The Successful Transition and Retention of Boys from Middle School to High School Choral Music by Patrick K. Freer A Female Teacher’s Perspective of Teaching Males in Middle and High School Chorus by Jana Williams The What, Why, and How of Young Adult Male Choirs by Jefferson Johnson An International […]
April 2012
Download the complete issue. ARTICLES Boys’ Changing Voices: What Do We Know Now? by Leon Thurman Working with Male Adolescent Voices in the Choral Rehearsal: A Survey of Research-Based Strategies by Rollo Dilworth Using Repertoire to Teach Vocal Pedagogy in All-Male Changing Voice Choirs: Conversations with Six Master Teachers by Drew Collins Real Men Sing […]
