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May 2004

Download the complete issue. Articles An Interview with Joseph Flummerfelt by Pearl Shangkuan A Canadian Choral Tradition by Victoria Meredith Women’s Choral Literature by Catherine Roma

April 2004

Download the complete issue. Articles “This Dreadful Winnowing-Fan”: Rhetoric of War in Edward Elgar’s The Spirit of England by Alan Houtchens & Janis P. Stout Check Your Intonation by Thomas Wine Phonetic Fun and Frolic: Alliteration in Elizabethan Part Songs by Chris White

March 2004

Download the complete issue. Articles Musica: The Evolution of a Library by Michael Shasberger Practical Applications of ChoralNet in the Choral Methods Class by Galen Darrough Choral Music and Print on demand by Tim Sharp Recording Your Choir by Charles L. Fuller

February 2004

Download the complete issue. Articles A Preview of the American Choral Directors Association Robert Shaw Institute for Choral Music by Gene Brooks Thematic Transformation in Mendelssohn’s Lobegesang by John Curtis Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast: A Masterly Storytelling by Ryan Kelly The Centenary Year of Unding Smith Moore: Dean of Black Women Composers by Philip Burnelle

January 2004

Download the entire issue. Divisions Eastern Division Convention Preview Western Division Convention Preview Central Division Convention Preview Southern Division Convention Preview Northwestern Division Convention Preview

IJRCS Volume 1

In this issue:
 Editorial Choral Singing: A Matter of Relationships (J. F. Daughterty)
 Choir Acoustics: An Overview of Research Published to Date (Sten Ternström)
 The Effect of Conducting Gesture on Singers’ Perceptions of Inappropriate Vocal
Tension: A Pilot Study (R. J. Vieth Fuelberth)
 A Preliminary Study of Factors That Limited Secondary School Involvement of
Collegiate Choral Singers (J. W. Tipps)
 Preference for Strong or Weak Singer’s Formant Resonance in Choral Tone
Quality (J. K. Ford)
 Choir Spacing and Formation: Choral Sound Preferences in Random, Synergistic,
and Gender-Specific Chamber Choir Placements (J. F. Daugherty)
 Aesthetic Response to Choral Music: Response Comparisons of Performer-
Participants and Non-Performer Respondents (A. P. Davis)