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 […]
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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.
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 […]
