Download the complete issue. Articles Dmitry Borniansky at 250: His Legacy as a Choral Symphonist by Marika C. Kuzma Implications for Non-Verbal Communication and Conducting Gesture by Joseph Kevin Ford A Summary of Current Debates Regarding Josquin’s Biography and the Attribution of Absalon, fili miby Douglas E. Thompson Choral Repertoire for the Smaller Church Choir […]
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May 2001
Download Full Issue INSIDE Connection: A Medieval Text and Twentieth Century Expressionism in Canticle of the Sun, by Amy Beach—by Betty Buchanan Adjudicated Sight-Reading for the Choral Ensemble: An Incentive for Musical Literacy by Matthew Armstrong Choral Performance Practice in the Eighteenth-Century Part Song: An Alternative Arrangement of Haydn’s Abendlied zu Gott by Steven Grives
April 2001
Download the complete issue. Articles Harmony and Language in Ginastera’s Lamentaciones de Jeremias Propheta: Implications for Rehearsal and Interpretation by Richard A. Williamson Bach in Boston: The Emergence of the St. matthew Passion, from 1868 to 1879 by Grant W. Cook, III The Swedish Sound by Gary L. Anderson Achieving Peak Performance: Rehearsal, Performance Attitudes, […]
March 2001
Download the complete issue. Articles African-American Spirituals and Gospel Music: Historical Similarities and Differences by Marvin V. Curtis Global Voices in Song: A College-Public School Partnership by Sharon Davis Gratto The Cultural Connection by Nick Page Musing About Jewish Music by Joshua R. Jacobson Far and Beyond: Resources for Unusual Multicultural Music by Suzanne Tiemstra […]
February 2001
Download the complete issue. Articles The Choral Works of Jean Cras by Paul-Andre’ Bempe’chat Baltic Portraits: Rudolph Tobias of Estonia by Vance Wolverton Adapting Choral Rehearsal for Students with Learning Disabilities by Vicki R. Lind
Gospel Choir as a Space for Racial and Religious Expression for Black Students at a Predominantly White Institution
This ethnography aimed to describe the culture and philosophy of the Northwestern Community Ensemble (NCE), a predominantly Black gospel choir at a predominantly White institution. Data collection comprised standard ethnographic procedures—31 hours of observation at rehearsals and concerts as a non-participant observer, 28 hours as a participant observer, and 15 semi-structured interviews with ensemble members […]