Read more
David Friddle explores choral methods and community choral ensembles that originated in the nineteenth century. Using more than one hundred musical examples, illustrations, tables, and photographs, he documents the expansion of choral singing beginning in the early 1800s.
List of contents
Contents
Acknowledgments & Proviso
Foreword, by Amanda Quist, DMA
Romanticism in Music
Choral Treatises
I. Training Volunteer Choristers to Sing
III. Building Community Choruses
III. Choral Conducting
IV. François-Joseph Fétis
V. Summation
Singing Societies
I. The Beginning of Singing Societies
II. German-Speaking Europe
III. Great Britain
IV. France
V. North America
VI. Italy & the Iberian Peninsula
VII. Low Countries
VIII. Finland
IX. Scandinavia
X. Summation
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
About the author
David Friddle is a man of many talents: author, conductor, composer, organist, designer and accomplished chef. He has two doctorates in music: Juilliard School, 1988 (organ), and the University of Miami, 2006 (choral conducting). Dr. Friddle has worked as a church musician in multiple denomi-nations; a professional graphic designer for a NYC glossy magazine and a manufacturing company in Miami; adjunct faculty at the University of South Carolina Upstate; and as a line cook at restaurant Cibréo in Florence, Italy. In addition to his varied professional activities, David founded two gay men’s choruses—one in Greenville, SC and the second in Asheville, NC. In 1997 he managed the SC Gay Pride March, held in Greenville; the following year he oversaw public events for the NC Gay Pride March in Asheville. His dissertation Christus is published by Bärenreiter-Verlag of Germany, and he has had articles published in the Choral Journal, American Choral Review, Newsletter of the American Liszt Society and The American Organist. Dr. Friddle has conducted in seventeen states and Europe and has given organ recitals in the major cathedrals of England and around the United States.
Summary
David Friddle explores choral methods and community choral ensembles that originated in the nineteenth century. Using more than one hundred musical examples, illustrations, tables, and photographs, he documents the expansion of choral singing beginning in the early 1800s.
