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- Collegiate A Cappella: Emulation and Originality
Lets face it: at its core, collegiate a cappella is about emulation. The vast majority of groups sing cover tunes. (This isnt necessarily a bad thing, of course!) Unlike in barbershop or other choral genres, here the musical work is not a score, but ...
Blog entries - jduchan - 10/19/2005 - 00:08 - comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups
- Collegiate A Cappella: The Singer, the Group, and Campus Musical Economics
First, let’s consider collegiate a cappella’s repertory of covers. In the process we can also think about musical quotations, one of the techniques of originality I proposed. Effective emulation (and quotation) provides opportunities for audiences to fi ...
Blog entries - jduchan - 10/21/2005 - 00:51 - comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups
- “The Old Familiar Choruses”: A Peek Into 19th Century Glee Clubs
But what about choral singing at colleges? An article by Richard Kegerreis in the journal American Music describes a thriving Handel Society at Dartmouth College in the early 1800s (earlier than the Boston H&H Society). As the Dartmouth Society’s ...
Blog entries - jduchan - 12/05/2005 - 21:38 - comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups
- Social Meanings And Barbershop Harmony
In his book Four Parts, No Waiting, Averill traces the roots of American close harmony to German and Austrian models, including the Singverein movement, German composer Franz Abt’s prolific and popular library of part songs, and their American manifesta ...
Blog entries - jduchan - 04/03/2006 - 16:28 - comments - 0 attachments - 0 groups
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