ChoralNet member CJ Redden-Liotta proposed and generously provided this article on one of his favorite research tools. Do you have a topic that you’d like to offer as a ChoralTech guest post? Contact Jeff Tillinghast if you’re interested in sharing a resource with the ChoralNet community as a guest Tech post! (www.hymnary.org) As a […]
The Language of the Discipline: Filling their Ears
Many of us in the field have a huge responsibility to the musicians in our ensembles: we are the channels of everything wonderful about our choral tradition, through which our singers learn about the history and future of composition, performance traditions and culture of music. If you went through a college music program, or an […]
What are You Listening To?
In the early days of listening to music on the Internet, the only available offerings were those “commercially viable” genres that could attract enough attention to warrant the high set-up and operation costs. Now that streaming music online has become standard and widespread, there are wonderful sources for choral music and other classical/art musics available […]
What Fair Use Is (and Isn’t)
(commons.wikimedia.org) A teacher came to me last week asking if it was copyright-compliant to download a YouTube video to show in an upcoming concert. “After all,” she surmised, “it’s publicly viewable already, and we’re a school, so it’s fair use, right?” Fair Use is that aspect of U.S. copyright law which gives considerable leeway […]
Vowel Shapes and Computer Analysis
A collaboration between the University of Rochester Computer Science and Eastman School of Music departments has come up with an interesting vocal teaching tool: (University of Rochester Newsroom) Obviously analyzing one voice is far different than analyzing a whole ensemble, but this idea of visually demonstrating aural information opens up a lot […]
A ChoralTech Shift
(gettyimages: mstay / iStock Vectors) Over the past couple of years, we’ve touched on a wide range of technology uses in our field: rehearsal management, choral operations, delivering music and feedback to our musicians, recording and performing. With a few exceptions such as our series on creating a web site, these have all been solely […]