For a brief, remarkable period during the early part of the twentieth century, singing truly functioned as America’s pastime, bringing communities together through song. The purpose of this session is to present a historical context for how involving all people in singing should be a standard that we aspire to as a professional organization, and […]
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A Choral Nest-Building Blueprint: Raising Singers and Lifelong Musicians
Do you wonder why your singers leave your choir? Do you want to strengthen your current and future membership? Do you want to help your current singers persist in singing in choirs throughout their lifetime? This session will explore the psychological and sociological constructs involved in why singers continue to sing. We will delve into […]
Introducing the Center for Congregational Song
This session will include an introduction to the new resources and programs available through the Center for Congregational Song,which launched in October 2017. While we navigate the resources and programs, we will explore examples of a wide variety of new congregational song being written, congregational song-leading techniques, and talk about the importance of the congregation’s […]
Dissecting Vocal Timbre: A Proposal for Categorizing and Notating Sounds for Choirs
This session proposes a set of categories for choral timbre and a notation based on the spectrograph shapes of extended vocal techniques, thus creating an intuitive, scientifically derived, and analytically replicable set of timbres for choral compositions. Specifically, we will look at familiar and discernible types of ensemble singing such as Broadway belting, the Balkan […]
This is Us: Creating, Changing, and Inspiring Choir Culture
The students that make up our choral ensembles may hold their own cultural ideals, but their unique paths cross each time they enter our classroom, tasking us with the responsibility of creating, changing, and inspiring a culture of choral music. This session will take the audience through four seasons of comedy and drama over thirty […]
June-July 2019
Download the complete issue. (6 MB) electronic Choral Journal **Download individual articles by clicking on the titles below.** FOCUS ISSUE FEATURES Concert Programs as Storytelling by Emily Ellsworth Honor Choirs: Are They Worth Your Time and Trouble?by Barbara S. Walker Uncovering Meaning and Identity through Voice Changeby Craig and Maria Denison The Care and Feeding […]
