TTBB Choir
SKU:
HL.14000823
Composed
by Antonin Dvorak. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Choral Score. Composed
2002. Chester Music
#CH05702. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14000823).
V
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Gossip is
the first movement of
Czech composer
Antonin Dvorak's
cycle 'Five Choruses For
Male Voice'.
The cycle
of five choruses is set
toLithuanian folk texts
translated by Frantisek
Ladislav Celakovsky and
is written for
unaccompanied male choir
(TTBB Voices). The title
page of the autograph
score bears the note:
Composed on the journey
from Prague to
Vienna,12thof December
1878.
The
individual parts of the
cycle present a vibrant
palette of moods, from
the balladic 'Dwellers by
the Sea' to the final,
light-hearted 'The
Sparrow's Feast'. The
songs' melodies echothe
spirit of folk songs, and
the composer used simple
but colourful harmonies
and chose a strophic
form.
