Dan Krieder is doing a great service for the world of choral music with his thoughtful posts about choral music.![tenmarks.jpg](http://archive.choralnet.org/paint/255743)
We’ve featured his previous posts when he talked about listening, communication with the audience, and the essence of rhythm.
This new post lists ten marks of a singing culture. The first mark holds the secret for the rest – that singing will be a natural activity:
A singing culture recognizes that, just as we would consider it “natural” to be born with a fully functioning larynx, so also the act of using it to sing is completely natural. Singing is as natural as eating. There might be those who don’t – but that’s just not the norm.
There is a mindset, of course, that we can’t sing.
I suspect this mindset stems from the misconception that singing is somehow a mysterious, transcendental ability belonging only to the exclusive club of the “musically elect.” In reality, singing is a physical process – admittedly not measured out to all equally, but (except in rare cases) certainly attainable by all. We all have respirators, phonators, resonators, and articulators. This is what I mean by singing being natural: the majority of us were born with all the tools we need to sing.
Go hear to read the rest of the article. How close are we?
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