Informella stämledare : Körledares erfarenhet av samarbete mellan sångarna i körstämman

Informal leaders in the choral voice.Choir leaders’ experience of collaboration between the choristers.Most choirs and choir leaders have the aim to make the individual voices soundas unison as possible in the different choral voices, according to both timing,synchronisation and vocal blend.The aim of the present study was to investigate experienced choir leaders’experience and understanding of potential collaboration between the choristersin the choir, and what consequences that might result in.The study is qualitative in character: semi-structured interviews were carriedout with experienced Swedish choral conductors representing a broad spectrumof the praxis field, regions, ages and different gender. The interviews weretranscribed in verbatim and were analysed.The result shows that all the interviewee experienced informal leaders in theirchoirs and two main categories were identified: (i) with a focus on leadersof the musical line, musicianship/music-maker, and (ii) with a focus on thechoral blend, the blenders.As a conclusion, in order to develop choirs to sound more even, synchronisedand in blend, it might be of value to consider where to place a musical leaderin the choral voice, and also to what degree this phenomena should be madeexplicit and discussed with the members of the choir