Choral Leader Empowerment in Vocal Management and Basic Vocal Techniques for Church Choir Leaders

Mauly Purba, Frida Deliana

2018

Abstract

Singing in choir format is an inseparable part of the ecclesiastical worship service in the Christian community in Medan, including among members of the Protestant Christian Church of Indonesia, Gereja Kristen Protestan Indonesia (GKPI) Padang Bulan and GKPI Sidorame. For members of the church, singing is a spiritual need. There are six to eight kinds of choirs that are always present in turns in the worship of the two churches. There are youth choirs, adult female choirs and or adult male choirs, as well as elderly choirs. Each choir has a coach, usually an amateur. In terms of chorus he is referred to as the leader of a choir or conductor.The problem in this context is that the quality of the choir shown in the two churches is often low. Low, in a sense that there are always technical errors that occur during the process of training or preparing, and at the time the choir presentation is taking place in the worship service. Some of the errors that tend to occur are mostly on the choral sound aspect as a result of improper vocal techniques, inconsistent intonation, inappropriate phrasering, and breathing that is incompatible with song sentences. Continous conditions of this will certainly produce low quality music and ultimately interfere with the quality and solemness of the service. This condition is correlated with the fact that almost all the conductors in both churches are individuals with limited musical abilities. Their management skills as well as the technical skills of choir teaching are also very low. They have no formal musical education background, despite having to handle musical products (musical compositions) that require both technical and theoretical understanding. The conductors, who may have been conductors for a relatively long period of time, are only forged by limited field experience, therefore their choir management knowledge, especially the basic techniques in choir training including vocal chorus techniques, as well as knowledge and insight about the repertoire is also limited. This condition is reflected in the choir groups that they train. The low technical ability, as well as the lack of insight and knowledge of the conductor on choir certainly will contribute immensely to the poor quality of a choir produced. Therefore the devotion team will improve their choir management abilities, particularly their vocal skills, so that they are able to minimize the technical difficulties encountered in the preparation and presentation of the choir. The empowerment of choir leadersin vocal management and vocal skills performed by the community service team succeeded in improving the knowledge and ability of singing in the church choir, thereforeproducing a quality choir.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Purba M. and Deliana F. (2018). Choral Leader Empowerment in Vocal Management and Basic Vocal Techniques for Church Choir Leaders.In Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR, ISBN 978-989-758-449-7, pages 1506-1510. DOI: 10.5220/0010085515061510

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icosteerr18,
author={Mauly Purba and Frida Deliana},
title={Choral Leader Empowerment in Vocal Management and Basic Vocal Techniques for Church Choir Leaders},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,},
year={2018},
pages={1506-1510},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010085515061510},
isbn={978-989-758-449-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,
TI - Choral Leader Empowerment in Vocal Management and Basic Vocal Techniques for Church Choir Leaders
SN - 978-989-758-449-7
AU - Purba M.
AU - Deliana F.
PY - 2018
SP - 1506
EP - 1510
DO - 10.5220/0010085515061510