“Choral Conducting Pamphlet”
Your booklet will need to consist of the following:
Title page – include the name of the class, your name e.g. “Choral Conducting Pamphlet” by…….. also include the semester, date and instructor’s name at the bottom
first two or three pages: Your philosophy on Choral Conducting and Choral music as a whole – its attributes, benefits,etc…
next page: your table of contents (I’d do this last) but present it after your philosophy.
Other required sources:
Construct four choral programs (Two for SATB voices, One for Two part voices, e.g. One for either SSAA or TTBB voices
Sleep…………………………………………………….. Eric Whitacre
Gloria……………………………………………………. A. Vivaldi …..etc
refer to chapter 7 for ideas in this regard. You may also get appropriate repertoire source per voicing from JW Pepper
< neatly draw up or design following conducting patterns:
4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 6/8 (give two drawings for 2/4)
< List 6 pieces composed by the following composers, give the dates of each composer and the era in which they wrote. The ladder you’ll below.
The Renaissance era
John Dunstable
Guillaume Dufay
Thomas Tallis
John Dowland
William Byrd
The Baroque Era
George F. Handel
Johannes Sebastian Bach
Jean – Baptise Lully
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Caldara
Claudio Monteverdi
The Classical Era
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Karl Phillip Emanuel Bach
Franz J. Haydn
William Billings
Ludwig V. Beethoven (who also wrote during the the 1st part of the Romantic era)
The Romantic Era
Giuseppe Verdi
Anton Bruckner
Johannes Brahms
Camille Saint- Saens
Felix Mendelssohn
Robert Schumann
Samuel Cooleridge – Taylor
The Impressionistic, Expressionistic and Modern Eras
