John Goldsmith's two guest posts (here and here) demonstrate a wonderful way to train your choirs to remember and audiate patterns, shifts of tonality, accurate half and whole steps, scales, etc. He creates ways to train the tonal memory in a positive way, which will help your choir in reading as well as to sing […]
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Three new recordings made by Matthew Curtis (Choral Tracks)
After learning about Choral Tracks on the ChoralNet Composers of Choral Music forum, I recently hired Matt to make recordings of three of my pieces for which I did not yet have satisfactory recordings. For those unfamiliar with Choral Tracks, it is a business run by Matthew Curtis, a former Tenor and Assistant Music Director for Chanticleer; he […]
Let´s celebrate 50th M.L.King´s Speech Anniversary by Spirituals Concerts
Dear Friends (Conductors, Choir Masters and Singers), would you and your choir like to participate at this extrordinary event? Festive Spirituals Concerts = LET FREEDOM RING = 50th M.L.King´s Speech Anniversary ´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´´ on 28 August 2013 there is 50th Anniversary of M.L.King´s famous speech “I HAVE A DREAM” where he expressed his vision of a fair world where all people […]
Fishbein: Two Prayers for the Sabbath Evening (Transcontinental Music Publications)
Two Prayers for the Sabbath Evening (I. V’sham’ru, and II. Oseh Shalom) by Joshua Fishbein has recently been released by Transcontinental Music Publications. These pieces won the Guild of Temple Musicians Young Composer Award in 2012. Additionally, Oseh Shalom won the ACDA’s 2011 Raymond W. Brock Memorial Student Composition Competition. Watch the premiere performance of […]
O Danny Boy SATB a cappella arrangement, new recording
O Danny Boy arranged by William Copper SATB a cappella Written for an a cappella choir who sing in just intonation, all melodic and vertical intervals can be perfectly tuned. And the tune is beautiful, in any tuning. Hartenshield print edition 0295 www.hartenshield.com/dannyboy.html Full perusal score online:www.hartenshield.com/0295_danny_boy.pdf MP3 recording online: […]
Intonation X – Calibrating the Ear II – John Goldsmith
This is the second part of John Goldsmith's Calibrating the Ear warm-ups. To understand this, you must first read Part I! The singing of chromatic and whole-tone scales will be done every day, along with the earlier exercises. The more advanced exercises can be added later if you wish. These are great exercises which will […]