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More from Daniel Coyle:  Tip #37 – To choose the best practice method, use the R.E.P.S. gauge. (as always, consider reading the book yourself!)   Coyle says to find the best practice strategy, measure the options with the following gauge, remembering the elements with an acronym: R: Reaching and Repeating E: Engagement P: Purposefulness S: […]

(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article, “Fuse the Arts, Please!” by Dorothy Bond.)          As you battle today’s on-the-job psychological confusion do you yearn for another kind of fusion – a sort of total experience with the total arts for your total person?        In the struggle to understand this fusion much comparison […]

(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article, “Phonetic Fun and Frolic: Alliteration in Elizabethan Part Songs,” by Chris White.)          An examination of Elizabethan part songs published in current anthologies reveals the prominent use of alliteration requiring the rapid repetition of the consonant [f].  The recurrent use of [f] alliteration may be attributed in […]

(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article, “Comparisons between the Requiems of Florian Leopold Gassmann and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart” by Mark J. Suderman )          Much has been written about the music Mozart mayor may not have actually written in his Requiem. However, little has been written about the origins of Mozart’s material- the […]

(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article, “Dialectical Thought in Nineteenth Century Music as Exhibited in Brahms’s Setting of Holderlin’s Schicksalslied” by Alan Luhring)          The Schicksalslied, Op. 54 (1871), by Johannes Brahms is a setting of Friederich Holderlin’s poem of the same name. It is one of three secular poems Brahms set for […]