MEMT231/331: Choral Literature on the Web

MEMT 331: Choral Literature on the Web

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Subject:	MEMT 331 Choral Lit. Module (please click this button)

This module is designed to familiarize you with some online choral literature resources available on the Resource Links Page. You may find several uses in your teaching and therapy responsibilities for such web based resources. Among them: finding appropriate choral literature, locating MIDI accompaniments to many pieces, searching out appropriate ideas for various types of ensembles for varying themes and occasions, discovering public domain or downloadable choral music, and reading the comments of others about particular choral works.

1. Explore the Musica International Database of Choral Music. What is Musica's favorite piece of the month for September? Name at least three useful things you can learn about this piece from this page.

2. In the box below,list apiece you might possibly conduct for our Renaissance/Baroque cycle. Using Musica's Simplified Search, were you able to find out anything about it? What items would you want Musica to include about your piece as the database grows?

3. Go to choralnet.org. Click the Resources link (top of page), then the Repertoire link, then on the Lists by Voicing link. Next go to the SATB and the Tenor Solo link. Name at least three compositions you can find for SATB voices with tenor solo. What other kinds of information are available to you from these lists?

4. Go to theSilvas Woodshed. Name the three compositions by Sweelinck for which you could download a MIDI file. Why might such files be handy for you? Also check out the Kanata Choral Society MIDI Files

5. Search the Choral Public Domain Library site. Name at least two Renaissance pieces that you could hear a midi file of, download and copy for your Renaissance conducting piece in MEMT 331. Give composer name and title. Why did you make the choices you did?

6. Visit Choral Scores Download. Among compositions whose title begins with the letter "i," list one Renaissance and one Baroque composition in the public domain for free download.

7. Explore three other links of your choosing from the Choral Literature links on the resource page. List one useful kind of information you found on each link.