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A choral director needs to upload rehearsal/instrumental tracks as mp3s for singers to download. We also need to distribute sheet music and lyrics, as pdf files. I’ve done 1 perl CGI script before, but have plenty of other software experience and not a lot of time. What free or inexpensive components should I consider for building this site with minimal effort? Thanks!

go to payloadz.com
you can upload all the pdf’s and mp3’s there in one sweep and then tie the account there to your website.

also www.flattext.com is a great place for cgi scripts.
you give it the fields you want and what kind they are, and it builds a script that would take hours to make in just minutes.

I’m doing an essay on this and I dont know where to get started. I’d appreciate if anyone just laid down the basics, suggested some pieces of music and/or composers, or helped out in any way.
The essay is supposed to be around 10,000 words so really anything helps. Thanks!
Also- if choral music is too specific, i’m considering narrowing down the topic to just music in general. Thanks!

Are you sure they were so different?

I have chosen a known Spanish and Italian composer.

1- Spain: Cristóbal de Morales
Biography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crist%C3%B3bal_de_Morales
A piece by him so that you can listen to it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6nJ6jiT3eQ

2- Italy: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Biograhy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Pierluigi_da_Palestrina
To listen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhpQgOpFEsY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Pierluigi_da_Palestrina

Okay, I’m planning on double majoring in vocal performance and music ed. I am also leaning towards minors in foreign languages and ethnomusicology. I’m looking for a school with a phenomenal choral arts program for my undergraduate that will give me a really good base to build my graduate studies off of. Any ideas?

If you are planning on doing this double major, then there are several fine schools with five-year programs that emphasize this. I have personal, professional experience with Hartt School (University of Hartford) and Temple University. As you research fine music school, look for this 5-year option, which grants you TWO degrees. The other interests you have will be addressed in a these programs - most definitely all the languages in your vocal major, but the ethnomusicology will be thinner until you hit grad school. I can attest to the level of choral education in these two schools - there are FOUR of us in this family who are full-time choral directors ( 2 just retired after more than 30 years). Good luck!

I want to be a high school choral director, I LOVE music, choral music, music theory, piano, etc. Its something I’ve wanted to do for a while, and filling out college applications, I am wondering this.

I don’t have the voice I would like to have. It’s not as good as all the choral directors I have heard. But I know I would do good with this job. Does whether or not my voice is amazing effect my ability to major in music education for vocal?

im in high school choirs… yes my teacher lat a good voice but last year my old teacher could not hit a note.. so no i don’t think you need to have a great voice to be a choral director!!! but you can get a voice teacher to help you with your voice

Im singing Carrie Underwood’s "Cowboy Cassanova" For my schools talent show but it seems weird singing like carrie and not trying to match pitches.
Then i cant seem to get up in my voice without going into my soprano voice.

ok i have been in your shoes more than once if this song is a good match for u then great but what u need to do i close your eyes relax and find this song in yourself make it your own to suit u and your style conform the style to u or sing it accapella then its all in your style

There are so many to choose from, looking through Mozart’s sacred choral works archive that I just don’t know where to start !
To date, I have listened to his Requiem and Kyrie from Great Mass in C minor.

What are your recommendations ?

And Which Work gives you that surreal, hair raising experience?

Absolutely Coronation Mass!
The must-buy: the one directed by Karajan at St Peter Basilica in Vatican.
The Mass was said by the Pope John Paul II.
It was literally a hair-raising experience!

Im looking for a good choral group to listen to to try and do my sociology essay. Prefereably classical. Or any other chill out music please!

some of my favorites:

The Cambridge Singers
The King’s Singers
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Robert Shaw Chorale

We’re singing two Mozart choral works and I want to know if you guys know any famous or popular work of his?

On the other hand, feel free to list your favorite or famous choral works by other composers.

Thank you… umm

don’t have to list Carmina Burana, Messiah, Missa Solemnis, Choral fantasy, Requiem by Verdi, Mozart and Brahms,Haydn’s the Creason and the Seasons lol.

Qualified as great or not, I am partial to Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, Op. 80.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Qb_ZsKhe0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C58rU2Ed64

Stravinsky - the Symphony of Psalms is already mentioned, but I have to add;
the lovely, small and quiet Mass
the monumental Opera/Oratorio, Oedipus Rex ~
scene1, start at 25”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lk7sXP5wTY
scene 4, start at 2′04”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W8kDDKSswE
and the fantastic Cantata, Threni.

Prokofiev: Cantata Alexander Nevsky, exerpts, The crusaders in Pskov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obiChPNqQeI
Alexanders entry into Pskov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqjEXcdHTZg

Leos Janáček, Glagolitic Mass (aka Slavonic Mass) I introduction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44vSm4v2Ero
II Gospodi pomiluj (Kyrie eleison)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPWdZHIDqvA

Bela Bartok, Cantata Profana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOkgB1VYVfU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30DL9ukHhfg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX5gMTQNPl8

Pierre Boulez, Cantata - Le Soleil des eaux

Olivier Messiaen, Trois petites liturgies sur la Presence Divine. Here, the second of three movements, start at 25”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMhzhvY8jXE

John Adams, Harmonium
Excerpts - with Simon Rattle discussing the work,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51wgChtHoDI
excerpt - last part of 3rd movement ‘wild nights’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67dgff4DKJk
On the transmigration of souls

Robert Moran, Requiem: Chant Du Cygne

Michael Torke: Proverbs

David Lang: The Passing Measures. (The work is for women’s chorus, and very softly played amplified acoustic instruments. You might find a tiny taste in an audio clip on Amazon.)

best regards, p.b.

I want to know so I can download it for Halloween. Also, where can I get that song from the Children of the Corn? That is ultimately creepy!

Try O Fortuna from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff …even his name is creepy. Give it a listen. With the lights off it will give you the willies and its classy at the same time. I’ve heard it used at some really good haunted houses.

You have to scroll down to the 5 min 19 sec one to get the whole effect

http://www.playlist.com/searchbeta/tracks#Carmina%20Burana%20O%20Fortuna.

It was my first time performing in a chorus in the bass section, we did Puccini’s "Messa di Gloria" and the fugue from the Gloria is one of the most exciting but difficult parts in it. So what would be the most difficult or challenging choral work you’ve ever performed?

Ligeti’s ‘Requiem’. Horrendously difficult!