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Call for Research Poster Sessions

2023 ACDA National Conference
Cincinnati, Ohio
February 22-25, 2023

The American Choral Directors Association will sponsor a research session at the national conference
in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 22–25, 2023. The intent of the research poster session is to bring current
research to light that impacts and informs our profession and to encourage our colleagues in the choral
world to stay in touch with research in choral music. We want to showcase the scholarship that is currently
being done, including studies focusing on rehearsal techniques, performance practice, repertoire choice,
or trends within the choral field. Of particular interest are papers about repertoire, performance practice,

conducting pedagogy, rehearsal pedagogy, vocal development, critical editions, theoretical analysis that
impacts performance, and research on vocal or compositional practices in contemporary choral music.
A poster session is a research report format used widely in the natural and social sciences, and
increasingly in the humanities. Your poster should be a single full-color document (no larger than 36” x 48”
inches in size) and light enough to be pinned on the display board with push pins. The conference venue
will have pins available.

1. Abstracts submitted for presentation must comply with the following guidelines:

(a) If the data have been presented in whole or substantive part in any forum or at previous research
sessions, a statement specifying particulars of the above must be included with the submission; and papers
presented at other conferences will be considered only if the audience was substantially different (e.g., a

state meeting or a university symposium). A statement specifying particulars of past presentation and venue
must be included with the submission.

(b) The paper may have been submitted but must not be in print or in press prior to the submission
deadline of the conference.

2. The research may be of any type, but a simple review of literature will not be considered
for presentation. Manuscript style of articles representing descriptive, quantitative, or qualitative studies
must conform to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th edition, 2020).
Authors of other types of studies (e.g., historical, theoretical) may submit manuscripts that conform to
either A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (K. L. Turabian, 8th edition, 2013) or The
Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition, 2003).

3. The following items are required for submission: An abstract of no more than 3000 characters
(including references) summarizing your research purpose, method, results, discussion, and implications.
The name(s) or affiliation(s) of anyone involved in the submission must not appear in the abstract.

Incomplete submissions (e.g., those discussing proposed research without any findings) will be rejected.

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