Whistling & the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
April 15th, 2007 by vincebates
I was watching the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s weekly Music and the Spoken Word (http://www.musicandthespokenword.com) broadcast on BYU-TV this morning. They sang a John Rutter arrangement of Sourwood Mountain which included some whistling. This is the second time in two weeks that I have heard the choir whistle. It has increased my interest in developing my own skills in this area and I have added a couple of links that I found. I wonder what applications there are for whistling in music education. In my elementary methods course we were singing Don’t Worry Be Happy while playing guitar and some of the students whistled the chorus and a few of them were pretty good at it; they kicked MY butt anyway! I wonder, too, what related pitched instruments there are out there that can be played intuitively–without learning fingerings or notes (African nose flute? musical bow?). Just some thoughts . . .
Question for you… Do you happen to know where I can get choral music for my choir that are arrangements of the pieces the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings?
Is there a website that keeps track of the songs they sing?
I’ve only been able to find http://www.JackmanMusic.com and http://www.JackmanMusicExpress.com that carries arrangements that they have sung. Do you know of any other sites?
Thanks,
Richard
I know that the choir has a website (www.mormontabernaclechoir.org) with a link to music and the spoken word. I’m sure that if you contacted them, they would have some sort of programming list and publishers. I would be surprised if they didn’t. I would be interested to know what you find out. I know that Mack Wilberg’s arrangements are readily available and I know that they are popular amongst school choir directors. He has been arranging for quite a long time. When I was in the BYU Men’s Chorus under his leadership (a loooong time ago) we sang a number of his arrangements . . .
Sorry for not being more help.