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February Choral Journal Preview — Focus on Pedagogy

January 11, 2021 by Amanda Bumgarner Leave a Comment

The newest issue of Choral Journal is available online. Following is a list of the articles you will find in this issue.

ACDA members can log in with their username and password to view and download the newest edition. You can also read our electronic version. Below is a preview of the articles you will find in this issue. If you are not already a member of ACDA, join today to start receiving your monthly Choral Journal! Associate members can join for only $45 a year.
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FOCUS ARTICLES

Critical Pedagogy and the Choir by Simon Hill

Pedagogy of Choral Sound and Spirit by Amanda Quist

Music Matters: A Pedagogical Framework for Literature Selection by Jabarie E. Glass

Perspectives on Programming Pedagogy by James M. Meaders

ARTICLES

COVID and the Choral Educator: Preparedness, Perceptions, Attitudes, and a Way Forward by Scott Rieker and Irene Apanovitch-Leites

Research Report
Mindset, Self-Concept, and Long-Term Musical Engagement by Kari Adams

Recorded Sound Reviews

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ChorTeach Preview: Solfège for the Performance-Oriented Classroom

December 21, 2020 by Amanda Bumgarner Leave a Comment

ChorTeach is ACDA’s quarterly online publication, designed for those who work with singers of all levels. A full annotated ChorTeach index is available online at acda.org/publications/chorteach. Over 160 articles are organized into seventeen categories. For submission information, to view the index, or to read the latest issue, visit acda.org/chorteach. Following is an excerpt from an article in the current Winter issue titled: Solfège for the Performance-Oriented Classroom by Heather Christiansen

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Opinions about how to approach singing this fall have been flying fast and furious. When I heard that my school would not be allowing any concerts for the year, I was of course disheartened. But conversations about these developments with parents and other teachers have caused me to reawaken a philosophy I’ve held for many years: a choir class is not about the concert. It’s about the skills our students take with them to enable them to be life-long musicians. I want to play for the long win, not just the short-term pay-off. What better time to realign our priorities when our traditional rehearsal may not be an option.

When strangers find out that I am a choir teacher, I am delighted to hear them recount how much they loved their choir experience throughout high school. The delight is short-lived, however, when that exclamation is accompanied with the confession, “Don’t ask me to sing, though; I still can’t read music.” What a shame! Indeed, Steven Demorest found that “Choral music education is often criticized for its emphasis on performance and rote teaching at the expense of developing music reading skills.”1

Because of these experiences, my end goal is that students graduate with skills that enable them to continue making and participating in music well after their school experience. I am encouraged by Moerman, who says, “[It] gives me the satisfaction that children are learning something which will benefit them for the rest of their lives: the ability to pick up any piece of music and sing it.”2 Music classes, even those that are performance based, should benefit the students far longer than the time they are actually in our classes. Whatever our teaching philosophy, we might ask ourselves: “What should our students know after twelve years of music education? What skills have they developed that they will continue to use throughout their lives?” For me, solfège is one of those skills.

Read more in the Winter 2021 issue of ChorTeach, available at https://acda.org/publications/chorteach/

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January Choral Journal Preview

December 7, 2020 by Amanda Bumgarner Leave a Comment

The newest issue of Choral Journal is available online. Following is a list of the content you will find in this issue.

ACDA members can log in with their username and password to view and download the newest edition. You can also read our electronic version. Below is a preview of the articles you will find in this issue. If you are not already a member of ACDA, join today to start receiving your monthly Choral Journal! Associate members can join for only $45 a year.
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An Interview with Bob Chilcott: 2021 Raymond Brock Memorial Commissioned Composer
by Tim Sharp

Conference Schedule of Events

Alphabetical List of Interest Sessions

Alphabetical List of Performers

Concert Events and Performers Bios/Photos

Interest Sessions Descriptions/Bios

Keynote Speakers

Reading Sessions and Forums

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December Choral Journal Preview

November 2, 2020 by Amanda Bumgarner Leave a Comment

The newest issue of Choral Journal is available online. Following is a list of the articles you will find in this issue.

ACDA members can log in with their username and password to view and download the newest edition. You can also read our electronic version. Below is a preview of the articles you will find in this issue. If you are not already a member of ACDA, join today to start receiving your monthly Choral Journal! Associate members can join for only $45 a year.
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FOCUS ARTICLES

The Whitfield Sound: Unearthing Foundational Elements of Contemporary Gospel Music
by Brandon Christian Waddles

R. Nathaniel Dett’s The Chariot Jubilee: An Instrument for Fostering Racial Harmony
by Jason Max Ferdinand

His Light Still Shines: An Artistic Style for Moses Hogan Spirituals
by Loneka Wilkinson Battiste

An American Mass: Celebrating Our Shared Music In An Ancient Form by Carlton E. Kilpatrick III

Choral Conversations
An Interview with James Benjamin Kinchen, Jr.
by Stanley Bochat and Timothy Keith Griffin, Jr.

ARTICLES

Defining the Virtual Choir by Cole Bendall

Student Times
Here’s to Song: Remembering Our Time Together
by Cameron Colson

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Choral Journal Article Preview: Unaccompanied Non-Idiomatic Choral Music of Black Composers

October 19, 2020 by Amanda Bumgarner Leave a Comment

The latest issue of Choral Journal is online and features an article titled “Unaccompanied Non-Idiomatic Choral Music of Black Composers” by Marques L.A. Garrett. You can read it in its entirety online at acda.org/choraljournal. Following is a portion from the introduction, including a list of pieces mentioned in detail within the article.

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For the purpose of this article, non-idiomatic refers to music that is not in a popular idiomatic style. The idiomatic styles of Black composers include spirituals, gospel, and jazz, among others. The non-idiomatic songs may have influences from those styles but are not considered idiomatic either in totality by analysis or by the composer specifically. The extent to which Black composers are often represented through idiomatic styles primarily is a curiosity worth further inquiry. The contributions of Black composers to classical music include but are not limited to operas, piano suites, symphonies, concertos, art songs, anthems, motets, part songs, madrigals, choral art songs, cantatas, and oratorios.

The following eight unaccompanied choral works surveyed in order of original publication year represent living and deceased composers, female and male composers, different tempos, songs ranging from easy to difficult, and both sacred and secular texts. Songs written in the style of a spiritual or work song, but are completely original, are outside the purview of this article while additional representative works are excluded to create a sample.1

Ave Maria (1930)
R. Nathaniel Dett

He Stooped to Bless (1936)
Edward Margetson

How Stands the Glass Around? (1956)
Ulysses Kay

Psalm 57 (1972)
Betty Jackson King

Lord, We Give Thanks to Thee (1973)
Undine Smith Moore

Hehlehlooyuh (1978)
James Furman

The 23rd Psalm (1994)
Bobby McFerrin

Nocturne (1994)
Adolphus Hailstork

  1. Songs written in the style of a spiritual or work song include
    Ain’t Got Time to Die by Hall Johnson, Great God A’mighty by
    Jester Hairston, and I’m Gonna Sing ‘Til the Spirit Moves in
    My Heart
    by Moses Hogan

View this full article (and more!) in the November 2020 issue of Choral Journal, available online at acda.org

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November Choral Journal Preview

October 5, 2020 by Amanda Bumgarner Leave a Comment

The newest issue of Choral Journal is available online. Following is a list of the articles you will find in this issue.

ACDA members can log in with their username and password to view and download the newest edition. You can also read our electronic version. Below is a preview of the articles you will find in this issue. If you are not already a member of ACDA, join today to start receiving your monthly Choral Journal! Associate members can join for only $45 a year.
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FOCUS ARTICLES

A Pedagogy for Living: Applying Restorative, Anti-Racist Pedagogy in the Choral Classroom by Jason A. Dungee

Unaccompanied Non-Idiomatic Choral Music of Black Composers by Marques L. A. Garrett

Black in the Baroque: Racism in the Spanish Villancico de negros by Tyrone Clinton Jr.

Choral Reviews

COLUMNS

A Study of “Jeongseon Arirang” by MinHyeong Lee: Elements of Korean Traditional Folk Music by Dong Kyu-Lee

Repertoire & Resources – World Music and Cultures
A Way to Select Meaningful Multicultural Choral Repertoire by Tiffany Walker

Book Reviews

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