by Stuart Hunt The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines music as “the art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.“1 To that is often added, something like the following: Sounds and silences organized in time. A pattern of regular or irregular pulses, some stronger some […]
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NEW! Hawaiian Music And More From Rose Publications!
Welcome to Graphite: Rose Publications! Contributing Editor: Jonathan Campbell Graphite is proud to announce the addition of Rose Publications to our already rich catalog. Rose Publications is a collection of scores recorded by the acclaimed Rose Ensemble. Featured in this series are 30 unique arrangements of music from Hawaii as well as 19th-century “shape note” […]
Reflective Practice and the Choral Director
The August 2022 issue of Choral Journal is online and features an article titled “Reflective Practice and the Choral Director” by Emily Mason. You can read it in its entirety at acda.org/choraljournal. Following is a portion from the introduction. _________________ For choral directors, the start of a new school year brings excitement and anticipation of the great music that […]
Note-Labeling – a sight-singing development skill often overlooked
When it comes to sight-singing, the ability to label notes on a staff is a skill that is often overlooked! In fact, note-labeling is one of six skills in total that singers need in order to be successful at sight-singing. This new blog post explains the other 5 but focuses specifically on note-labeling. Until your singers can labels their […]
The City In the Sea: Choral Tone Poem (SATB divisi & Orchestra) Now Available
As of the present writing, this choral tone poem had been gestating for over thirty years, and the concept and harmonies for it for over forty years. In the 1980s I began to work with the latter two in my brief orchestral piece Little Sea Nocturne. When reading the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), […]
Leading Voices: From the Rehearsal Room to Independent Learning
Recently, our district asked each content area to meet, discuss, and submit a plan for teaching our students how to study and prepare for local and state exams. My initial reaction was to roll my eyes and view this request as just another example of something that applies to other subjects and not to music […]