Vocal And Choral Works
The choral works of Hamish MacCunn
... Dramatic pacing MacCunn’s response to the poem, like his response to the later Four Traditional Scottish Border Ballads, is to treat it as a tragic opera in miniature. He achieves this by using bold melodies, strong, ...
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HARMONIOUS LANGUAGE OF CHORAL WORKS OF MODERN COMPOSERS
... in choral works is the use of clusters and ...in choral scores is often formed horizontally, as a result of the interaction of vocal ...
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The Use of Ancient Musics in the Contemporary Choral Music Context: Unusual Instruments and Vocal
... features the use of harmonic whirlies and the didjeridu, as well as harmonic overtone singing. . Positive aspects of working with harmonic overtone singing techniques include the following: the satisfaction of performers ...
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A LENTEN CANTATA AND OTHER CHORAL WORKS by Andrew Anderson
... professional vocal ensemble founded in 2008 by Peter Tregear and Warren Trevelyan-Jones to perform and promote both historic and contemporary chamber vocal ...
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Characteristics of Choral Writing in György Ligeti’s Late Works
... last vocal works a cappella created György Ligeti in 1980 — the 1990 th years: “Drei Phantasien nach Fridrich Hölderlin”, “Magyar Etüdök” and “Nonsense ...last choral opuses by the master, between ...
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Music, text and context in Felix Mendelssohn’s choral works for Berlin Cathedral
... his vocal music and his employment of the title Deutsch for a number of his works, are in line with Mendelssohn’s vocation to create a national liturgical style in his setting of Die Deutsche ...spezzati ...
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NIKOLAY MYASKOVSKY: VOCAL WORKS, VOLUME ONE by Yuri Abdokov
... The vocal music of Nikolay Yakovlevich Myaskovsky is still little known to the concert-going ...two choral works, 1 it consists of compositionally diverse song-cycles and individual songs; the poets ...
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Bass, Bach, and Gesualdo: Liturgical Choral Works from Three Different Periods
... Most of Randol Alan Bass' compositions reflect this diverse background. His pieces are strongly sectionalized and employ frequent modulations, features typical of marching band repertoire; and yet his harmonic palette ...
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Three Dissertation Recitals: Sacred Music for Choir, Strings, and Organ and Complementary Choral Works
... cycles, loops, and palindromes, and mostly diatonic and modal musical language. He was generally content with music that developed slowly, if at all. The Lamb, with sacred poetry by nineteenth-century Englishman William ...
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"Why do I go on doing these things?": The Continuity and Context of Gerald Finzi's Extended Choral Works
... focussing on a more all-encompassing impression of the innocence of childhood than Traherne’s source poem. It is the second verse of the Third Century from which Finzi derives most of his text, with only the opening and ...
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The Development of English Choral Style in Two Early Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams
... a choral symphony, when examined in context, is not as incongruous as it might otherwise ...primarily choral and vocal ...famous works—the early song cycles and Toward the Unknown Region—were ...
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Jamaican Composers in the Classical Tradition: Three Vocal Works by Dexter, Ashbourne, and Marshall
... Hardtalk Marshall’s chamber opera, Hardtalk is an opera parodying the Jamaican talk show, “Religious Hardtalk”, hosted by Ian Boyne. An enormous success, the opera had its premiere performance at the Jamaica Institute in ...
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An annotated catalog of the commissioned works of the Ithaca College Choral series published by Theodore Presser Company
... ostinato pedal, and chordal writing of parallel fourths and fifths in contrary motion. The harmonic language includes polychords, clusters, and quartal and quintal sonorities. Notable Challenges: The poetic language ...
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Performing Negro Folk Culture, Performing America: Hall Johnson’s Choral and Dramatic Works (1925-1939)
... Johnson Works on New Negro Folk Opera,” the author writes that Johnson “integrates the drama, melody, and vocal effects to make a musical statement about his ...orchestral works almost entirely by ...
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Vocal Jazz in the Choral Classroom: A Pedagogical Study
... Well-known vocal jazz arrangers include Steve Zegree, Paris Rutherford, Kerry Marsh, Phil Mattson, Michele Weir, Rosana Eckert, Darmon Meader, Greg Jasperse, Jennifer Barnes, Greg Gilpin, Mark Hayes, Jay Althouse, ...
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Bennington High School Vocal Music Department Choral Hand Book
... The performance check-off is a way for students to make up missing concert points by demonstrating music mastery of the performance literature. Students are responsible for recording their vocal part for all song ...
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The choral works of Robert Schumann (1810-56)
... Schumann's instinct in making additions, however, was absolutely right, for the work owes much of its charm to the picturesque choruses of the Nile Genies, Houris, Peris and so[r] ...
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Three Dissertation Recitals: Masterwork, Benefit Concert, and Miscellaneous Choral Works
... The Gallant Weaver James MacMillan James MacMillan is known to be a devout Roman Catholic and interested in liberation theology, perhaps best exemplified by his larger choral works, Seven Last Words from ...
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Selected Larger Choral Works of F. Melius Christiansen (1871-1955)
... The altos heighten the melodic interest by presenting a tonally altered version of the second horn part in imitation (Example 7).. Melius Christiansen, The Prodigal Son, Mvt. Christian[r] ...
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Finding the right note: the strategy use of eighth grade choral students during vocal sight-reading
... influence vocal sight-reading achievement, then studying strategy use on deeper levels using synthesized data streams might better disambiguate sight-reading ...and choral directors better understand ...
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