In this commentary, a number of problematic aspects of the studies presented in the target article are discussed. Suggestions have been made for further analyses of some of the data and for ...additional experimental investigations.
Listeners are bound to be struck by the effect of a monophonic chanted "Kyrie eleison" giving way to dense, trembling instrumental chord clusters in the choral Symphony no. 2 (1980) or of electric ...guitar, bass, and drum kit suddenly appearing following passages based on serial techniques in the Requiem (1975). According to Ivashkin, the finished Cello Concerto was unique among Schnittke's works with respect to its approach to dissonance and expression. On a surface level, the Concerto for Choir is immediately distinguished from many of Schnittke's earlier choral works by the uniformity of its orchestration; gone are the electric guitar, vibraphone, and other attention-grabbing instruments found in pieces like the Symphony no. 2 and the Requiem. ...the text can be heard clearly throughout the piece and is free of obstruction from polyphonic writing or instrumental accompaniment, and no sudden changes of timbre interrupt the mellifluous choral soundscape.
Jenny Bell and the Mountain View Choir will present a different approach to school choir program structure that eliminates the need for auditioned ensembles while still providing an experience and ...atmosphere of excellence. Moon Song, a song inspired by teenage boys detained locally; Im Just Like You, a song co-written by a Congolese refugee about his desire to belong and build a safe life; Everyone Can Love Someone, a song sung at every TRC practice and event. In addition to directing the Boise Gay Men's Chorus, she works with Opera Idaho as chorus master, director of the Rising Stars program for high school students, and accompanist for Idaho Opera Children's Chorus.
African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas St. Thomas Gospel Choir The St. Thomas Gospel Choir (STGC) is from the Historic African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, PA. The STGC has ...performed for the installation of the last two Episcopal Church Presiding Bishops. In 1991, Blocker was called to direct a gospel choir at the historic African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia. The JPS Chamber Ensemble has been invited to perform as showcase choirs on the campuses of Montclair State University, Westminster Choir College, and Rutgers University, and have collaborated with local community choirs and youth orchestras. Eric Rubinstein is assistant professor of choral music at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College (CUNY), where he directs the select Treble Choir and teaches undergraduate and graduate coursework in choral music education.
Non-competitive choral event for all types of choirs and vocal ensembles all over the world with audience prize awarded to the best choir at each concert. Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the ...Sydney Children's Choir during a week of concerts, recitals, workshops, masterclasses and panel discussions. Bali Cantat, Choir clinics and workshops, evaluation performances, friendship concerts, choir competition, choir championship, Grand Prix championship, 'Meet the Jury' consultation.
Initially formed in 1987, The Flirtations billed themselves as "the world's most famous, openly-gay, all-male, politically active, multicultural, a cappella singing doo-wop group." Over the course of ...the next decade, The Flirts - as they were affectionately known - recorded three albums, crisscrossed the globe to perform at gay pride events and AIDS rallies, sang in small theaters and concert venues, and even appeared in a Hollywood film. Committed advocates of LGBT rights, feminist movement, multiculturalism, and AIDS activism. The Flirtations used the nostalgic sounds of close-harmony a cappella singing to deliver political messages, enlighten listeners, and entertain audiences. Through fluctuations in membership, personality conflicts, and the AIDS-related deaths of two founding members, The Flirtations kept singing and left behind a unique repository of queer music at the end of the 20th century. Using a combination of previously unavailable archival materials, new interviews with surviving members of the group, and close readings of select musical examples, I situate The Flirtations within the history of US close-harmony singing and examine the queer politics of a cappella in their music.
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The Choral journal,
01/2022, Letnik:
62, Številka:
5
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Wednesday Night - President's Concert Dan Forrest's Jubilate Deo Welborn E. Young, conductor Welborn E. Young is director of choral activities and professor of music at the University of North ...Carolina at Greensboro School of Music, where he was the recipient of the 2007 Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award. Since 2005 he has directed Bel Canto Company, an ensemble of professional singers profiled on the National Public Radio program "Performance Today." Participating Area High School Choirs Durham School of the Arts Chamber Ensemble Lucas Cecil, Amy Davis, and Jeremy Nabors, directors Rockingham County High School Concert Choir and Women's Ensemble, Marlo T. Nall, director Penn Griffin School for the Arts Vocal Music Ensemble, Wesley McCleary-Small, director Wheatmore High School - Voices of Valor, LJ Marin, director Southern Region Children's Festival Chorus Southern Region Children's Festival Chorus comprises five organizations from across ACDA's Southern Region: Cantate Children's & Youth Choir (VA, Peggy Howell, director); Chattanooga Boys Choir (TN, Vic Oakes, director); Durham Children's Chorus (NC, Dena Byers, director); RISE Chorales (GA, Emmy Williams Burch, director); Young Singers of the Palm Beaches (FL, D. Shawn Berry, director). Oakwood University The Aeolians The Aeolians of Oakwood University was originally organized in 1946. Since its inception, the choir has toured extensively, performing at venues throughout the United States and internationally. Paradise earned both her BM and MM in Studio Music and Jazz Vocal Performance from the University of Miami. Since her teaching appointment at Belmont University in 2007, Paradise has received certification in Somatic Voicework™ and has completed training in Vocology from the National Center for Voice and Speech.
This paper presents a method for automatic music transcription applied to audio recordings of a cappella performances with multiple singers. We propose a system for multi-pitch detection and voice ...assignment that integrates an acoustic and a music language model. The acoustic model performs spectrogram decomposition, extending probabilistic latent component analysis (PLCA) using a six-dimensional dictionary with pre-extracted log-spectral templates. The music language model performs voice separation and assignment using hidden Markov models that apply musicological assumptions. By integrating the two models, the system is able to detect multiple concurrent pitches in polyphonic vocal music and assign each detected pitch to a specific voice type such as soprano, alto, tenor or bass (SATB). We compare our system against multiple baselines, achieving state-of-the-art results for both multi-pitch detection and voice assignment on a dataset of Bach chorales and another of barbershop quartets. We also present an additional evaluation of our system using varied pitch tolerance levels to investigate its performance at 20-cent pitch resolution.
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