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A Recipe for the Development of Expressive Conducting Technique: Harmonic Rhythm Add Laban and Bodymapping

Using a groundbreaking combination of Laban Movement, Laban Movement Analysis, Harmonic Rhythm, and Body mapping, this session will detail a new pedagogical path for the development of meaningful expressive gesture. Session attendees will gain a working and practical knowledge and application of Laban Movement applied to conducting and revolutionary etudes for the development of conducting […]

Problems and Possibilities in Choral Method Courses

Four experts in choral music pedagogy will lead this session. Each will present views of current issues in choral music education, with emphasis on how collegiate methods courses can be revised to foster the needed changes. Specific recommendations will be offered with regard to methods course curricula, instruction, assessment (edTPA, etc.),and increasingly rigorous requirements for […]

February 2015

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January 2015

Download the complete issue.  (18 MB)eCJ (Digital Choral Journal) **Download individual sections by clicking on the titles below.** PREVIEWS National Conference Performing Choirs National Conference Interest Sessions National Conference Composers Track National Conference Honor Choir Conductors

IJRCS Volume 5

In this issue:
 Effects of a Vocal Jazz Workshop on Choral Music Education Majors’
Achievement in Improvisation and Confidence in Teaching Improvisation (P. M.
Ward-Steinman)
 The Effect of Baton Use in Slow and Fast Tempi on Perceptions of Choral
Conductor and Ensemble Performance (J. Nápoles, S. Babb, & K. Willie)
 Effects of Solo and Choral Singing Modes on Vibrato Rate, Extent, and Duration
Exhibited by Undergraduate Female Singers (L. M. Mann)

 Effects of Traditional Pattern, Lateral-Only, and Vertical-Only Conducting
Gestures on Acoustic and Perceptual Measures of Choir Sound: A Pilot Study (M.
L. Grady)
 Vocal Mechanism Knowledge and Voice Care Among University Freshman and
Senior Voice Students (A. M. Manning & P. Blanchet)
 The Status of International Phonetic Alphabet Transcriptions in Archived Choral
Octavos with Foreign Language Texts Distributed in the United States from
1970-2013: An Exploratory Study (E. M. Dekaney)