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The mission of the choral program at CWU seeks to develop and
enhance the vocal abilities and skills of students who are
pursuing music and choral art as a vocation and avocation. These
guidelines are set forth as means to accomplish these
objectives.
- balance of historical styles, sacred and secular
- varied voicings, i.e. SSAA, SATB
- selected for purposes of building solid vocal technique
balanced with audience consideration
- explore music of non-western culture
- selections presented for the public are of exemplary quality
- perform works of a larger musical context, i.e. combined with orchestra
- awareness of individual/section responsibility for
melodically and harmonically difficult
- identify/anticipate/rehearse passages causing intonation difficulty
- encourage vocal technique that is conducive to good intonation
- healthy, unforced, well-focused, resonant tone that appropriately responds to
the repertoire
- warm, energetic and supported in wide dynamic range
- uniform vowels
- appropriate diction, not overemphasized
- well-wrought musical line with flow, direction and
motion
- tempos which reflect the technical/musical capacity of the
ensemble and accepted practices
- phrase direction devised from issues of musicianship
- variety appropriate to style
- excessively percussive only as effect, to be used as accents
to an essentially legato instrument
- active application of historical/theoretical concepts
- relationship of text to music and music to text
- harmonic function/progression
- use of ensemble as a tool of synthesis for musical and
non-musical knowledge
- effective vocalises for teaching vocal technique
- improve posture and breath management
- improve sight-reading skills
- utilize student accompanists
- conduct with fluid, legato, expressive motion
- use musical terminology/vocabulary
- appropriate rehearsal pacing for vocal health
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