The “Sistine” Chapel of Papal Music: between tradition and modernity
2017-07-15
Interview with the choirmaster-conductor, Mons. Massimo Palombella
by Andrea Angelini, choral director, composer, ICB director Read More →
Singing is a Human Right for a Child (Part One)
2017-04-15
Oscar Escalada, choral director, composer and professor
In the first part of my book A Choir in Ea…Read More →
Heterophonic Vocal Music Training: Extending Sound Before Symbol
2017-04-15
Raymond Reimer Uy, Jr., choral educator and singer
Music teachers, like all educators, critically reflect on how they are preparing their students to apply the subject matter outside of the classroom. The goal of musical literacy …Read More →
Teaching Vocal Sight Reading from Medieval Times through to the 20th Century: Crucial Points for Methodology
2017-01-15
Lucio Ivaldi, choir director and instructor
Many aspects related to ancient song have yet to be studied adequately. As Bruno Baudissone argues:
The recovery of ancient music and its practices began with inst…Read More →
Conducting the Score - Part One: The Drama of Conducting
2017-01-15
Tim Sharp, Choral Conductor, Executive Director of the American Choral Directors Association
When we think of a staged drama, whether a play, opera, or musical, certain elements come to mind. Actors, stage, curtains, scri…Read More →
Divided Choirs: Myth or reality? Acoustic Experiments in St Mark’s Basilica, Venice
2017-01-15
Andrea Angelini, ICB Managing Editor, Choral Conductor and Musicologist
The premise on which this research1 is based suggests that the architects and musicians who operated in Venice during the Renaissance period were m…Read More →
iPads, Androids, and Slates: Tablet Computing and Choral Music in 2016
2016-10-15
By Philip Copeland, choral conductor and teacher
In our rapidly changing technological society, choral musicians and conductors often choose to explore the tablet computer as a replacement for their paper-based choral music folder. …Read More →
Performing Polyphony (part 1)
2016-07-02
By Peter Phillips – Director of the Tallis Scholars
Brodsky’s misgivings about Ezra Pound’s Cantos could stand for many old-fashioned interpretations of polyphony: take a piece of music that looks simple, something apparently elemen…Read More →
The Voice in Nature and in Man
2016-04-15
By Giacomo Monica, choir director and teacher
1. The Harmonious Aesthetic Beauty