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A this discipline course at Arizona Christian University.
Choral Arranging and Conducting teaches students to write vocal parts for music industry professionals that are easy to understand, clearly written, and musically satisfying. The course begins with a study of vocal ranges/timbres, the basics of singing, the setting of text to music, and proper notation. At the same time, students receive choral conducting gestures, rehearsal techniques, and performance etiquette. Harmonization studies focus on 2-, 3-, and 4-parts and a capella writing in contemporary styles and idioms. The course ends with a final project to compose, score, rehearse and record a multi-voice, a capella or accompanied arrangement or original work.
Engage the Course Material
Build a working understanding of choral arranging and conducting as the course's central subject.
Apply Discipline Methods
Use the methods, vocabulary, and frameworks of the discipline to address course problems.
Connect Course Content
Connect this course's content to broader work in the discipline and related fields.
Demonstrate Course Competencies
Demonstrate the specific competencies the course is designed to develop.
A Biblical Worldview treats music as a craft worth doing well — a way of engaging beauty, skill, and worship with the seriousness any vocation deserves.
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