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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"A cappella"”.
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«Prehistoric Ligeti». L’opera corale a cappella 1941-1956
… appendix presents an updated catalogue of his a cappella choral works, enriched with previously unknown pieces and fragments, while the concluding section adopts a performance-oriented perspective, reporting the results of a collaboration with the amateur “Vincenzo Gianferrari” Choir of Trento …
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The a Cappella Choral Music of Ildebrando Pizzetti
"The study situates Pizzetti into his times, in Italy and within the international music scene of the early twentieth century. It examines the texts that he employed and considers his uses of melody and harmony. It pays particular attention to his employment of archaic techniques. Chapter 3 focuses …
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The a cappella choral music of Chen Yi: 1985-2010
… of her compositional output. Chen Yi’s a cappella choral music tends to fall into one of two categories—arrangements of Chinese folksongs and original compositions based on traditional Chinese literature. In both of these categories, we must examine Chen Yi’s process of selection of these …
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Sing a New Song: Analyzing A Cappella Arrangements of Contemporary Worship Music
… explores strategies for arranging CWM for a cappella settings by comparing the originals with two a cappella arrangements: one intended for group performance and the other for congregational worship. This will be accomplished through examining the following five songs: “Hymn of Heaven,” …
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Sacred A Cappella Composition in France from Pius X to Vatican II
… in specifically sacred and liturgical <em>a cappella</em> composition. (Liturgical music uses the texts of the Eucharist and Office [canonical hours] of the Roman Catholic Church; whereas “sacred” music broadly contains not only the liturgy, but paraliturgical texts from the Bible and …
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A survey of a cappella sacred music for mixed choir of Josef Rheinberger
… with Classical elements. It is a pity that the a cappella sacred music that Rheinberger composed for mixed choir did not gain much attention--most of his works did not fit the liturgical requirement of the Roman Catholic Church and were heavily criticized by the Cecilians. The analyses in this …
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A Score of Voices: Creating and Scoring an Original Film With A cappella Choir
<p>Film scores typically feature large instrumental ensembles, sometimes with choir added at pivotal moments. Rarely, however, is the choir entrusted with a greater percentage of the score, and far too scores explore the sonic potential that vocal music has to offer. In fact, in a recent study of …
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The a Cappella Choral Works for Mixed Voices of Elisabeth Lutyens (Serial, Atonal, British)
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 70999 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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An analysis of Jung Sun Park's Missa Brevis 'Psallentes' with guidelines for performance
… accompaniment, and very few were intended for a cappella chorus. A widely respected composer in Korea, Jung Sun Park is well known for incorporating elements of traditional Korean music into his a cappella works. Although numerous studies of Park’s choral music have been done in the past, many of …
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Composing the Sacred in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: History and Christianity in Alfred Schnittke's Concerto for Choir
… of five strokes. The Concerto is scored for a cappella mixed chorus, and its text is the work of the tenth-century Armenian monk and poet, Gregor Narekatsi (951--1003). The work is demanding and challenging, and its approximate length of forty-seven minutes requires great endurance. These …
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Music and Attention for Children with Developmental Disabilities
… the intervention phase, the teacher sang a cappella an original song with instructional lyrics that explain the type of attentive behaviors that students should be displaying. Measures included momentary time sampling on five attentive behaviors: appropriate vocalizations, visual focus, …
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Arvo Pärt’s manipulation of the tintinnabular style in three representative choral works: An den Wassern zu Babel saẞen wir und weinten (1976), And One of the Pharisees (1992), and Adam’s Lament (2009)
… (1992) for 3 voices or 3-part choir (Ct/ATB) a cappella, and Adam’s Lament (2009) for SATB choir and string orchestra. While all these choral works employ the tintinnabular style that Pärt invented in the 1970s, he has modified in each successive composition. For this dissertation, I will …
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Aaron Copland's In the Beginning: context and creative process
… reluctant response to Harvard’s request for an a cappella choral work on a text drawn from Hebrew literature. Although Copland’s upbringing was steeped in Jewish traditions and synagogue life, scholars have minimized the impact of his Judaism on his compositions, which avoided overt references to …
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Effects of varied types of music on singing voice and articulation in patients with Parkinson's disease
… were asked to sing two short, familiar songs a cappella. One song was of a sedative nature (slow and soft). The other was of a stimulative nature (fast and loud). One paragraph of The Rainbow Passage was read before and after the sedative song for each participant and again before and after the …
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The style of meditation: a conductor's analysis of selected motets by Rihards Dubra
… Motets," will analyze the previously mentioned a cappella motets with consideration given to style, techniques, and pedagogy. Rihards Dubra's music can be classified in many ways, Neo-Medievalism, Holy Minimalism, or by his own words "the style of meditation." It is not by astoundingly well spun …
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‘Sîn liet erklang im schône…’: A Reassessment of the Role of the Fiddle and Harp in the Performance of Minnesang (c. 1170–c. 1340)
… reached—namely, that it was performed a cappella or with minimal accompaniment of fiddle or harp—the issue has been effectively ignored in the equivalent German repertory, i.e. minnesang. The current thesis aims to address this lacuna. After briefly tracing the history and current …
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Arabaribiti, for SATB Voices Divisi
… multi-layered subsections), two of which are a cappella and one accompanied movement featuring marimba, woodblock, and shakers (shekere). The piece interplays between three flat major key signatures—B-flat, E-flat, and G-flat—and also between various meters: 4/4, 6/4, 3/4, and 2/4. The …
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Consonance, Tertian Structures and Tonal Coherence in Wladimir Vogel's Dodecaphonic World
… in his vocal writing, the Madrigaux for mixed a cappella choir (1938/39). Vogel's twelve-tone works exhibit tertian structures which are particularly emphasized by triads located as consecutive pitches within the rows. Emphasis on tertian structures are not limited to small-scale segmentation of …
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