CME In Low Voice.
Composed by Andrea
Clearfield. Choral Music
Experience In Low Voice.
Concert, Festival,
Inspirational. Octavo. 68
pages. Boosey & Hawkes
#M051484713. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48024179).
UPC:
888680703769.
6.75x10.5x0.147
inches.
Created
from the texts of live
interviews, here is music
that explores the notion
of family by a community
coming to terms with the
creation of a family in a
society that has not,
until now, legally
accepted non traditional
relationships. It takes
as its thesis the idea
that love is the only
thing that can establish
a family and that love is
what binds us all.
4 male voices (CtenTTBar) (TTBB Choir) SKU: HL.49003214 For four male ...(+)
4 male voices (CtenTTBar)
(TTBB Choir)
SKU:
HL.49003214
For
four male voices.
Composed by Gavin Bryars.
Sheet music. Edition
Schott. Classical. Score.
Composed 1988. 16 pages.
Duration 15'. Schott
Music #ED12461. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49003214).
ISBN
9790220117282. UPC:
888680784249.
8.25x11.75x0.052 inches.
Latin.
Glorious
Hill may be performed by
a male choir.Text by Pico
della Mirandola
(1463-1497) from De
Hominis
Dignitate.Glorious Hill
was commissioned by the
Hilliard Ensemble and
first performed by them
at its summer Festival of
Voices in Lewes, Sussex,
in August 1988. It was
the first piece I wrote
for the ensemble and I
focused on the singers'
unique ability to move
with ease from early
music to tonal music of
the present day. There
were techniques which I
asked for which I hardly
needed to notate - the
staggered breathing of
the two tenors to supply
a continuous unbroken
held note for example -
and the piece moves
between passages for solo
voices and sections of
highly chromatic
homophony, almost as if
the music were switching
between the 12th century
of Perotin and the 16th
century of Gesualdo. Each
of the four voices is
given its own solo
passage, sometimes
accompanied, sometimes
quietly supported by the
other voices.The title,
Glorious Hill comes from
the name of the
small-town Mississippi
setting of Tennessee
Williams' Summer and
Smoke. I wrote the music
for the 1987 production
of this play at the
Leicester Haymarket
Theatre, the first time I
had written any
incidental music for the
stage. Williams makes
very specific demands in
terms of music and there
is one particularly
powerful scene, the
penultimate one,
throughout which music
and atmospheric sound
effects are continuous.
The principle character
Alma argues passionately
about the vital
importance of human
choice with the man to
whom she has, too late,
admitted her love. I
watched this section
every night throughout
the 4 week run of the
play watching the
different ways in which
the actress, Frances
Barber, played the scene.
There is a powerful
emotional and
philosophical connection
between the imagery of
this scene and a passage
from the Renaissance
philosopher Pico della
Mirandola's Oration on
the Dignity of Man which
forms the text of
Glorious Hill. This
passage has been
described as one of the
few passages in
Renaissance philosophy to
treat human freedom in a
modern way. The text,
which is sung in Latin,
is addressed by God to
Adam before the fall from
grace.Gavin Bryars.
Choir Secular (Men's Choir) SKU: AP.38081 Composed by John Stafford Smith...(+)
Choir Secular (Men's
Choir)
SKU:
AP.38081
Composed by
John Stafford Smith.
Arranged by Mark Hayes.
Performance Music
Ensemble; Single Titles.
Alfred Choral Designs.
4th of July; Patriotic;
Secular; Summer. Choral
Octavo. 8 pages. Alfred
Music #00-38081.
Published by Alfred Music
(AP.38081).
UPC:
038081425535. English.
Francis Scott
Key.
An
exhilarating
tour-de-force setting of
our National Anthem. The
sizable full
orchestration, impressive
piano accompaniment, and
resounding choral parts
emanate unwavering
patriotism. Mark's
arrangement works equally
well in the concert hall,
sanctuary, gym, or
stadium.
About Alfred
Choral
Designs
Th
e Alfred Choral Designs
Series provides student
and adult choirs with a
variety of secular choral
music that is useful,
practical, educationally
appropriate, and a
pleasure to sing. To that
end, the Choral Designs
series features original
works, folk song
settings, spiritual
arrangements, choral
masterworks, and holiday
selections suitable for
use in concerts,
festivals, and
contests.
TTBB Choir SKU: BT.HU-3775-250 Arranged by Gerhard Wielakker. Harmonia-Me...(+)
TTBB Choir
SKU:
BT.HU-3775-250
Arranged by Gerhard
Wielakker. Harmonia-Men's
Choir. Folk British
Isles. Choral Score. 4
pages. Harmonia #HU
3775-250. Published by
Harmonia
(BT.HU-3775-250).