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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"choral singing"”.
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Male high school students’ perceptions of choral singing
… male high school students’ perceptions of choral singing. Focus was maintained on three categories of students: choir students, ex-choir students, and never-enrolled students. Data included individual interviews with eleven male high school students from the three aforementioned categories. …
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The Aging Voice: Choral Singing After the Age of Fifty
Singing has been shown to have a variety of benefits for older singers, including improved posture, higher levels of perceived physical health, improved speaking tone, and greater ease of breathing. Choral singing in particular has social and mental health benefits for older adults. Older adults …
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Sing Together! Choral Singing as a Supplementary Training Method for Actors
… spoken voices, all through the use of ensemble singing in the actor's voice and speech classroom.
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The Effects of Circular Singer Gestures on Acoustic and Perceptual Measures of Middle School and High School Choral Singing
… by nine middle and high school choirs while singing. Recordings were analyzed on acoustic (long-term average spectra [LTAS]) and perceptual (singer and expert listener preferences) measures. Among primary findings: (a) results of a repeated measures ANOVA of LTAS data indicated a significant …
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Choral Music Educator Perceptions and Modifications in the Choral Classroom During the 2020-2021 COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey
… rehearsal, and personal circumstances choral music educators faced amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an online survey was distributed across the country. A variety (N = 75) of middle school, high school, and collegiate choral educators responded, sharing the successes and struggles of the …
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A Singer's Perspective on Recruitment, Auditioning, and Vocal Technique in the Choral Program
<p>Choral singing has been a part of culture for centuries. Choirs are comprised of singers with a near endless variety of experience levels in terms of training and technique. Three problems that face directors of choirs are: 1) How to recruit and retain students for their programs, 2) How to …
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An exploration of vibrato and performer perception in vocal jazz singing
… done concerning the use of vibrato in solo and choral singing, which shows that there is a disconnect between perception and actuality concerning the healthy usage of vocal vibrato. While vocal jazz practitioners agree on the proper stylistic use of vibrato in the genre, there has been very …
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Guia practico for piano by Heitor Villa-Lobos : a performance edition with critical notes and commentary
… subject in all schools through the study of choral singing. It was this period that led Villa-Lobos to compose his Guia Prático (Practical Guide), a collection of songs based on Brazilian folk music. Based on the original material of the Guia Prático, Villa-Lobos composed eleven books for …
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Poems to Open Palms: Praise Performance and the State in the Sultanate of Oman
… war dance with drumming and antiphonal choral singing, and al-‘āzī, a choral ode with a solo singer, tight poetic structure, and a chorus of responders. Through a close analysis of the content and context of praise poems sung by Arab men’s performance troupes experienced over a year of …
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British influence on New Zealand choral traditions: a study of the relationship between choral festivals and societies in the United Kingdom and in New Zealand, with focus on New Zealand's high school festival 'The Big Sing'
… as an extension of the British tradition of such choral festivals, a heritage that dates back as far as the establishment of the Welsh eisteddfod competitive festival tradition and later, the English Sons of Clergy non-competitive meetings in the seventeenth century. While TBS has only existed in …
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Vocalises for choir: A collection of vocal exercises with a study of their value and of principles for their effective use.
… referred to and used as "warm-ups" in the choral rehearsal, vocalises are considered by many conductors to have a usefulness that surpasses that of simply preparing voices for the singing which is immediately at hand. It remains a tendency in many cases, however, for vocalises to be used in …
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Choral activities at the University of Chattanooga from 1886-1969
Group singing has served as a valued recreational, religious, and educational activity in communities and institutions throughout the United States. A historical case study of the University of Chattanooga, a small Methodist-Episcopal college founded in 1886, indicates ideological factors, …
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An Interpretative Analysis of a Selected List of Choral Music in the Contemporary Idiom for Senior High School
… (2) to determine how receptive high school choral directors, high school choral members, and the listening public are to this music, and (3) to analyze phenomena peculiar to music in general and phenomena peculiar to choral music only in selected examples using this idiom.
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A Plan of Weekly Lessons in Choral Techniques for Students in High School Choir
… begins with the very first fundamentals of choir singing and continues into more complicated, varied aspects of music performance.
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Choral unit standards and support material for primary schools in South Africa
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