Download or read book Performing American Choral Music written by Kirk Edward Young and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New England Tunesmiths at the time of the Revolutionary War to the rich harmonies of slaves shared with the rest of the world after the Civil War, the composers of the United States have a rich musical ancestry. The early music of America is imbued with the rough-cut pioneering spirit of its settlers, the profound devotion of groups seeking religious liberty, and the jubilation of a people thriving in a newly-tamed frontier. American music is also infused with loss and hardship, brutality from an unforgiving wild, or even cruelty from one group of its inhabitants to another. Every song tells a part of America's story.In a search to explore which influences have combined to create contemporary American choral music, a fascinating collection of composers, works, and traditions can be found. Iconic characters emerge, who through prodigy or perseverance personify the intricate relationships of its merging peoples and changing times. These composers and songwriters come from vastly different backgrounds, emerging as much from the fields, range, and rivers as they did from more affluent society in the city. Their music reflects the confluence of the folk traditions of various immigrant groups, America's indigenous population, and a people enslaved.Knowing more about the influences that shaped the music of these early American composers helps to bring to the foreground some of the key considerations with which directors should be familiar when selecting and performing music from within the canon of American choral music. For example, the performance of some of America's music may be problematic due to the insensitive nature of its origin. Other music should be performed within certain parameters to ensure it is performed in a way that honors the people and tradition it represents. Each of the unique cultures that contributes to the immense body of American music is worthy of informed and appropriate performance practice.As with any other genre, there is much to be learned about American choral music to be able to perform it well. A choral director who has studied its historical and cultural context, as well as pertinent present-day social issues, will be empowered to replace the caricature of American music we often hear with powerful performances of this remarkable music that are fueled by authenticity.
Download or read book American Choral Music Since 1920 written by David P. DeVenney and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lists nearly 3,000 original choral works written by 76 composers active in the United States from roughly 1920 until the present. Styles range from the lush Romanticism of Charles Wakefield Cadman to the stark, dissonant harmonies of Morton Feldman.
Download or read book Choral Music written by Robert L. Garretson and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1993 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes the reader through an enlightening tour of choral music, emphasizing on the musical style performance practice of different historical periods. The reference provides guidelines on the numerous aspects of performance practice for choral music based on the Renaissance Period, the Baroque Period, the Classical period, the Romantic period, and the Modern Period, with special emphasis on meter and stress, tempo, dynamics, tone quality, pitch, texture, and expressive aspects of the music of each period. Appropriate for Junior/Graduate-level courses in Choral Conducting and Literature..
Download or read book Source Readings in American Choral Music written by David P. DeVenney and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Choral Music written by Avery T. Sharp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites on choral music. This book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared since publication of the previous edition.
Download or read book Choral Music in Nineteenth century America written by N. Lee Orr and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choral music represented an important part of American cultural life during the nineteenth century, whether integral to worship or merely for entertainment. Despite this history, choral music remains one of the more neglected studies in the scholarly community. In an effort to fill this gap, N. Lee Orr and W. Dan Hardin offer a new approach to the study of choral music by mapping out and bringing bibliographical control to this expansive and challenging field of study. Their unique guide focuses on literature related to choral music in the United States from the end of the second decade of the nineteenth century through the earlier part of the twentieth century. Choral Music in Nineteenth-Century America explores the entire range of choral music conceived, written, published, rehearsed, and performed by an ensemble of singers gathered specifically to present the music before an audience or congregation. The guide expertly sifts through the extensive literature to cite the most notable sources for study and provides individual chapters on the leading nineteenth-century composers who were instrumental in the development of choral music.
Download or read book Choral Music written by James Michael Floyd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites on choral music. This book will serve as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars in sorting through the massive amount of new material that has appeared since publication of the previous edition.
Download or read book Teaching Music Through Performance in Choir written by Heather J. Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Choral Music in the Nineteenth Century written by Nick Strimple and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the critically acclaimed "Choral Music in the Twentieth Century" comes an indispensable resource for choral conductors, choral singers, and other music lovers, and an essential text for educators and their students. Strimple covers repertory by Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, and lesser figures.
Download or read book In Quest of Answers written by Carole Glenn and published by Hinshaw Music. This book was released on 1991 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with American choral conductors discussing aspects of the career, philosophys and trends for the future.
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Choral Music written by Donna M. Di Grazia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-Century Choral Music is an in-depth examination of the rich repertoire of choral music and the cultural phenomenon of choral music making throughout the period. The book is divided into three main sections. The first details the attraction to choral singing and the ways it was linked to different parts of society, and to the role of choral voices in the two principal large-scale genres of the period: the symphony and opera. A second section highlights ten choral-orchestral masterworks that are a central part of the repertoire. The final section presents overview and focus chapters covering composers, repertoire (both small and larger works), and performance life in an historical context from over a dozen regions of the world: Britain and Ireland, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latin America, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia and Finland, Spain, and the United States. This diverse collection of essays brings together the work of 25 authors, many of whom have devoted much of their scholarly lives to the composers and music discussed, giving the reader a lively and unique perspective on this significant part of nineteenth-century musical life.
Download or read book Performance Practice in Early American Choral Music written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sing Romantic Music Romantically written by David Friddle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a paucity of material regarding how choral music specifically was performed in the 1800s. The Historically Informed Performance (HIP) movement has made remarkable advancements in choral music of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods, with modest forays into the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and other early nineteenth-century composers; however, there are no sources with a comprehensive examination of how choral music was performed. Using more than one-hundred musical examples, illustrations, tables, and photographs and relying on influential, contemporaneous sources, David Friddle details the performance practices of the time, including expressive devices such as articulation, ornamentation, phrasing, tempo, and vibrato, along with an in-depth discussion of period pronunciation, instruments, and orchestral/choral placement. Sing Romantic Music Romantically: Nineteenth-Century Choral Performance Practices fills a gap in choral scholarship and moves forward our knowledge of how choral music sounded and was performed in the nineteenth century. The depth of research and abundance of source material makes this work a must-have for choral professionals everywhere.
Download or read book A List of Contemporary American Choral Music written by James H. Case and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Choral Music in the Twentieth Century written by Nick Strimple and published by Amadeus Press. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Amadeus). Nick Strimple's all-encompassing survey ranges from 19th-century masters, such as Elgar, to contemporary composers, such as Tan Dun and Paul McCartney. Repertory of every style and level of complexity is critically surveyed and described. This book is an essential resource for choral conductors and a valuable guide for choral singers and other music lovers.
Download or read book Choral Singing written by Ursula Geïsler and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role does contemporary choral activity play in the construction of social and musical meaning? How can historical knowledge and analysis shed light on contemporary choral problems and possibilities? And how can choral research promote the development and expansion of new music today? Questions like these are addressed in this anthology from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives. The book comprises a selection of papers presented at the International Conference on the Concepts and Practices of Choral Singing in Lund, Sweden, in October 2012. The aim of the conference was to highlight the contemporary dynamic developments in choral research, and to explore interdisciplinary investigations and interaction between practice-based and historical approaches. The conference was also the fourth meeting of the network “Choir in Focus”, which was initiated in 2009 at Southern Choral Centre (Körcentrum Syd), a joint venture between Malmö Academy of Music, the Department of Musicology, Odeum (all at Lund University), Malmö Symphony Orchestra and Music South (Musik i Syd), Sweden. The continuous ambition of the network has been to provide a forum for co-operation across national and disciplinary borders and to encourage debates around the musical and social function of choirs in modern society as mirroring collective and individual needs for meaning, music-making and well-being. In the introductory chapter, the editors describe choral practice as a field of simultaneous (re)presentation, (re)production and (re)creation, and suggest that these three aspects may be seen as umbrella themes for the fifteen chapters of the anthology. The authors come from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Germany, United Kingdom, Portugal and Belgium, and explore choral practice from differing theoretical and methodological starting points. Together, they contribute to a transdisciplinary discussion about the origins, functions and meanings of choral singing.
Download or read book Varied Carols written by David P. DeVenney and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey of choral literature, written by American composers from 1760 through the 1990s, examines nearly 3,000 pieces of choral music written by over 300 composers. Along with a descriptive analysis, the literature is placed within a historical perspective. Familiar and less well-known composers and their music are examined. The study seeks to remedy the superficial treatment choral music is often given in standard textbooks on American music and to acknowledge and expose the varied richness of the literature. Choral conductors and musicologists will appreciate the vast repertory of choral music literature examined. Organized chronologically, this study uniquely traces the development of choral music literature throughout the centuries. A select bibliography provides a useful guide for further research.
