American Choral Directors Association

The mission of ACDA is to inspire excellence and nurture lifelong involvement in choral music for everyone through education, performance, composition and advocacy.

You are here: Home / Sample Page

Sample Page

February 2005

Download the complete issue. Articles Virtual Roundtable: Advice from Choir Travel Professionals The Whole World in Your Hands: A Do-It-Yourself Tour Planning Guide by Daniel R. Craig Choral Pioneers: Cultural Exchange with Shipibo Villagers in Peru by Luanne Clarke Crosby What if . . . : Dealing With the Unexpected on Tour

January 2005

Download the complete issue. Convention Previews Overview Honor Choirs Performing Groups Interest Sessions R and S Breakfast Roundtables

IJRCS Volume 2

In this issue:
 Editorial: On Pursuing Unusually Stubborn and Persisting Efforts to Think by the
Intelligent Gathering and Use of Data (J. F. Daugherty)
 Choral Sight-Singing Practices: Revisiting a Web-Based Survey (S. M. Demorest)
 Select Acoustic and Perceptual Measures of Choral Formation (C. Aspaas, C. R.
McCrea, R. J. Morris, & L. Fowler)
 The Effect of Various Left-hand Conducting Gestures on Perceptions of
Anticpated Vocal Tension in Singers (R. J. Vieth Fuelberth)
 Update on Community Choir Singing in the United States (C. L. Bell)
 An Historical View of Barbershop Music and the Sight-Reading Methodology and
Learning Practices of Early Championship Barbershop Quartet Singers, 1939-
1963 (B. C. Ayling)

December 2004

Download the complete issue. Articles Folk, Traditional, and Non-Western Influences in the Choral Works of Sid Robinovich: An Examination of Two Choral Suites by Ian Loeppky The 2005 Raymond Brock Commission: Nocturnes by Milburn Price Singing Visions: Metaphors for Teaching Students with Visual Impairments by Jody L. Kerchner

November 2004

Download the complete issue. Articles From Song Cycle to Cantata: Arnold Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder by Bryan R. Simms Observations on Schoenberg’s Modern Psalm, op. 50c by Mark Risinger “Everyday Music:” The Tonal Sketch to Arnold Schoenberg’s DeProfundis by Mark Shapiro

October 2004

Download the entire issue. Articles A Conductor’s Guide to Anton Webern’s Entflient auf leichten Kahnen, Op. 2, and the First Cantata, Op. 29 by Andrew Kuster An Interview with Ismael Fernandez de la Cuesta by Randi Von Ellefson Perspectives on Sight-reading Choral Repertoire: Conversations with Rodney Eichenberger, Joseph Flummerfelt, Ann Howard Jones, Jo-Michael Schiebe, and […]