SATB Choir, Piano
SKU:
CA.926610
From:
Sonne, Mond und
Sterne. Composed by
Peter Schindler. Carus
digital: Extra digital
products. Full Score.
Duration 3 minutes.
Published by Carus Verlag
(CA.926610).
ISBN
9790007295578.
German.
Peter
Schindler's full-length
secular choral work
Sonne, Mond und Sterne
(Sun, Moon and Stars)
narrates a love story
based on old texts which
are given a new
interpretation through
these musical settings.
Some individual numbers
were published in spring,
and now more movements
with piano accompaniment
are available in print
and digitally.-
choral work of medium
difficulty- will
appeal to experienced
Brahms Requiem singers as
well as ambitious chamber
or youth choirs with a
gospel, pop or jazz
background-cross-over
between jazz, chanson,
and chamber music
Peter Schindler
about Was ist die
Welt?A strict Allegro
ben ritmato symbolises
how inexorable the course
of the world is. The
choir chants the question
about what Welt (the
world) actually is.
Hectic bustle is
expressed through a
pulsing basic motif. This
is repeated constantly
and moves through the
parts. A lyrical B flat
minor in the central
section allows us to
float like shadows on the
way into a dream.The
song text is a collage.
The first verse, by the
Baroque poet Christian
Hoffmann von
Hoffmannswaldau, is
concerned with the
vanitas motif: the world,
and everything which
seems beautiful to us, is
ephemeral. The second and
third verses were written
in the 18th century by
Johann Gottfried Herder.
Here, the poet expounds
the view that real life
does not take place in
the world and that
people's mathematical
abilities are
insufficient to measure
space and
time.
