The result is often a piece that fascinates us because of how the writer moves between conflicting elements. Hybrid writers mix fact and fiction; poetry and prose; memoir and history; biography and memoir.
Choral reading is reading aloud in unison with a whole class or group of students. Choral reading helps build students' fluency, self-confidence, and motivation.
The system of dividing the chant repertory into eight modes had its origins in the eight echoi of the Byzantine chant of the Eastern Church. In the Byzantine system, the echoi are melodic types, and thus a mode is primarily a property of a particular tune-family.