Choir Audition Information, Fall 2008

• Audition Information (read first)
• Audition Music to Prepare (pdf)
• Sight Singing Example (pdf)
• Calendar 2008-2009

James Stegall, Director of Choral Activities 

University Singers Excerpts (MP3)

• Snowflakes - Johnson
• Chichester Psalms Mvt. 1 - Bernstein
• The Caged Bird - Mechem
• Only My Dreams - Kean
• Rune of Hospitality - Houkom
• Ave Maria - Biebl
• Beati quorum via - Stanford
• Motet VI - Bach
• Pilgrim's Hymn - Paulus
• There Will be Rest - Tichelli
• Serenade to Music - Vaughan Williams

Calendars

• 2008-2009
• 2007-2008
• 2006-2007
• 2005-2006

Helpful Links

• Choral
  • Choralnet
  • International Federation for Choral Music
• Associations
  • American Choral Directors Association
  • Illinois ACDA
  • Illinois Music Educators Association
  • Music Educators National Conference
  • Illinois High School Association
  • The College Music Society
  • The Society of American Music
• Music
  • MUSICA
  • The Jewish Choral Music database
  • The Choral Public Domain Library
  • J.W. Pepper
  • Hal Leonard Online
  • Santa Barbara Music
  • Hear the Choirs Sing

Special Events for 2008-2009

• Choral Music Education
  Leadership Workshop, Oct 16
• Fall Tour and Clinic, Oct. 30-Nov. 1
• The Holiday Festival of Choirs, November 20
• Madrigal Choir Workshop, Dec 5
• Campus Visit and Clinic - Popular!
• Bring WIU to your campus

Future Students

• Welcome
• Future Undergraduate Students
• Future Graduate Students
• Ensembles

PowerPoint Presentations ("Read only")

• Nature and Spirituality:
  An Interdisciplinary Choral Concert
• It's Winter and We're Singing the Blues
• Utilizing the International Phonetic Alphabet

Summer Choir Camps 2008

• WIU Summer Music Camps Site
• High School Choir Camp Concert Excerpts 6.21.08
  • Sanctus in d - Bach
  • At the Earth's Round Imagined Corners - Spencer
  • Dirait-on - Lauridsen
  • Esto Les Digo - Lange
  • Only My Dreams - Kean
  • Gate Gate - Tate
• Junior High Choir Camp Concert Excerpts 6.28.08
  • She Sings - Bernon
  • How Can I Stop Singing My Song - Gray
  • Fair Phyllis - Farmer
  • I Am The River - Bernon
  • Thistle and Rose - Wolf-White
  • Cantate Deo - arr. Mayo
  • Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind - Diemer
  • On Justice, Truth and Peace - Bernon

The Vocal Mechanism

• The Vocal Tract and Larynx
• Anatomy and Examination of the Larynx
• Hurme & Sonninen Position of Larynx in Singing
• InteliHealth The Larynx And Voice
• Review of Anatomy The Larynx
• XI. Splanchnology

Music Theory Tutorials

• Ricci Adams' MusicTheory.Net
• Teoria
• emusictheory.com
• The Well Tempered Clavier

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E-mail: JC-Stegall@wiu.edu | Phone: 309/298-1378 | Fax: 309-298-1499