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A Composer and Her Audience
Gabriela Lena Frank | September 16, 2011

Composer Gabriela Lena Frank explores the evolving relationship with her audience, beginning with her doting parents.

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28 American Master Choral Composers

A Repertoire and Recording Listing to Support NEA's American Masterpieces
Chorus America Staff | August 26, 2011

Celebrating America's greatest choral composers, this publication provides repertoire and recording lists for 28 composers from Billings to Whitacre.

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A Love Story and a Choral Commission

Chorus America Staff | April 27, 2011

Some couples celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary with silver, but Providence Singers member David Keller and his wife Julie Meyers chose music instead.

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A Repertoire Reference Guide of Twenty-First Century Works for Male Chorus

Chorus America Staff | April 1, 2011

Research Memorandum Series No. 199

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Commissioning Timeline

Chorus America Staff | March 1, 2011

Commissioning a new work? Follow this two-year timeline to help plot out which steps you should take when. This timeline is appropriate for a work that does not involve complicated instrumental requirements or multiple movements.

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The Choral Music of Ruth Watson Henderson

Chorus America Staff | September 1, 2010

Research Memorandum Series No. 198

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Two Composition Lessons from Handel

Chorus America Staff | June 1, 2010

Handel’s practice of borrowing from other composers allows us the opportunity to probe into the great composer’s style and creative thought processes. A number of scholars have shown without question that the majority of Handel’s borrowings transform his source materials into new creations entirely his own. But what does “entirely his own” really mean?

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The Published Choral Music of Michael Hennagin: An Overview

Chorus America Staff | April 1, 2010

Research Memorandum Series No. 197

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Mind Over Meter

Michael Shaughnessy | January 8, 2010

So you thought you could count...that is, until you met the 7/8 and 5/4 time signatures. Honestly, why are those meters so troublesome?

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