Download or read book A Conductor s Analysis of Edward MacDowell s Original Choral Music for Mixed Voices and Women s Voices and Editions for Men s Voices written by Gary P. Wilson and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) was one of the first American-born composers to gain international notoriety. Relatively little scholarly research has been done that deals specifically with the choral music of Edward MacDowell. This study examines his original choral music for mixed and women's voices, and his editions for men's voices. The choruses are analyzed with a format that considers the importance of meter, tempo, rhythm, melody, harmony, tonality, form, musical/textual agreement, and expressive features. MacDowell was trained in Europe, and his music reflects the influence of late German Romanticism. An important aspect of this study was the preparation of editions of MacDowell's choral music updated to current publication standards. These editions are included in an appendix, as well as copies of the original publications for comparison. The most important scholarly contribution of this book is to make some of MacDowell's choral music available again. MacDowell's choral compositions have been virtually lost from the standard repertoire. All of the works examined were published between 1890-1910; they are currently out of print and unavailable to most choral musicians. choral scholar and musician.
Download or read book A Conductor s Analysis of Edward MacDowell s Original Choral Music for Mixed Voices and Women s Voices and Arrangements for Men s Voices written by Gary P. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Chorus Conductor s Guide written by G. Schirmer, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Analysis and Performance of the a Cappella Choral Music for Mixed Voices of Arnold Schoenberg written by Dean Wesley Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT.
Download or read book In Thy Loving Arms written by Melchior Franck and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Analysis and Performance of the a Capella Choral Music for Mixed Voices of Arnold Schoenberg written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Giacomo Meyerbeer Choral Music and Songs written by Robert Ignatius Letellier and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of Meyerbeer’s non-operatic work is devoted to his secular choral writing for male voices, solo songs with chorus, and later songs with instrumental obbligato and local colour. Choral writing—so much part of the operatic tradition, also germane to religious music, and integral to the public music of celebration—is fundamental to the next genre Meyerbeer wrote for, the part-song, a typical German tradition. Meyerbeer’s part-songs for male chorus, most of which were provided for the Liedertafel Friends of the Berlin Singakademie, use the age-old themes of unity, friendship, patriotism, homeland, hunting: Bundeslied (1835), Freundschaft (1842), Dem Vaterlande (1842), and Die lustigen Jägersleut (1842). This set of four illustrates the composer’s harmonic richness, his imaginative use of all the variants of vocal timbre and tessitura, in part-writing, textured unison and homophony. Rather different were two later numbers, Der Wanderer und die Geister an Beethovens Grabe (1845), and Das Lied vom blinden Hessen (1862). The first is a personal tribute to the memory of Beethoven, for bass solo and chorus, that uses the Platonic imagery of the music of the spheres as the transcendent ideal of beauty. The late Song of the Blind Hessian, requiring a tenor soloist and chorus, is a deeply felt lament in which the protagonist’s blindness becomes the metaphor for a series of variations on loneliness, exile and loss, and eventually a correlative of disenfranchisement and yearning for freedom—political and spiritual. In both songs the chorus has a more dramatic role than in the part-songs, reflecting on the situation presented in the soloist’s manifesto, sometimes serene and supporting, at others adding to the sense of anguish and aspiration. Throughout his career Meyerbeer wrote songs. These reflected the circumstances of his life, the various cultural milieux he moved in—particularly, of course, the German, Italian and French worlds. The majority of Meyerbeer’s songs were composed between 1828 and 1860, in tandem with his illustrious operatic career and socially prestigious musical posts in Berlin. Meyerbeer’s songs in whatever genre show the influence of the Lied, especially in his subtle use of the piano parts. Unique among Meyerbeer’s songs are two written with instrumental obbligatos: “Hier oben” (Des Schäfers Lied or Hirtenlied) (Ludwig Rellstab) (1842) (for tenor, clarinet and piano, published in Paris in 1857), and “Près de toi” (“Neben Dir”) (Gustav Roger, translated by the poet and historian Joseph Duesberg) (1857) (for tenor with violoncello and piano, published in Paris in the same year). Meyerbeer adapted a strong sense of local colour in two songs composed in the 1850s: the Spanish bolero in the mélodie written for the incidental music to Aylic-Langlé’s play Murillo (Ballade dans la comédie Murillo, ou Le Peintre mendiant un modèle) (Paris, 1853); and the Italian barcarole in the canzonetta “A Venezia” (Pietro Beltrame) (1856) [Paris: Brandus, 1856; Cologne: Schloss, n.d.].
Download or read book Analysis and performance of the a capella choral music for mixed voices of Arnold Sch nberg written by Dean Wesley Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Conductor s Guide to the Choral Music of Ruth Watson Henderson written by Bruce J. G. Kotowich and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This DMA document explores the choral music of Ruth Watson Henderson. The intention of this conductor's guide is to promote Henderson's choral music. The document is unique from other present studies, in that it includes discussion of her smaller choral works and relates her better-known larger works to her compositional style and background. Although her choral compositions are being performed with greater frequency, her shorter choral compositions as still relatively unknown and they have not been studied. The document consists of four chapters, a bibliography and three appendices. Chapter one is biography of the composer, highlighting her education and other influences on her composition. Chapter two reviews choral music for children's voices. Three works are reviewed, discussing the compositional traits through the form, text, melody, harmony, texture, and compositional origins. Chapter three discussed her choral music for unaccompanied mixed voices. Two works are reviewed in this chapter; both sacred and secular compositions are represented in this chapter. Chapter four reviews Henderson's compositional style in her choral works for accompanied mixed voices. Two works are presented for discussion. Again, her compositional traits are highlighted through choice of texts, form, texture, melody, harmony and treatment of the accompaniment. Chapters two through four also features analysis charts of each work and examples from the scores. A selected bibliography is included following the body of the document. Three appendices provide a current list of Henderson's choral output, compositions for other genres and a discography.
