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Performing the Yellow River Cantata
… in 1939, Xian Xinghai’s (1905-1945) Yellow River Cantata has nearly exclusively remained the province of Chinese choral groups. In large measure, the failure of the work to make significant inroads into the world of Western choral music stems from the daunting challenges posed by the Mandarin …
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Justified: A sacred cantata based on Paul's doctrine of Justification
Justified is a musical work for choir and orchestra that uses prose Scripture alone as its source of text. The text incorporated is drawn from Romans chapters 3-11 with additional text from Genesis 15 and 17 and 2 Timothy 2:12; the work is a setting of Paul's explanation of the doctrine of …
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The musical setting of text in Cantata no. 140 by J.S. Bach.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Humanities. Thesis. 1971. B.S.
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Volume I. The Cantata Number Two of Anton Webern. Volume Ii. Dissertation. [Original Composition]
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The lily of Quito a cantata for soprano, flute, classical guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello & percussion
The Lily of Quito (2025) is a 33-minute cantata about Saint Mariana of Jesus (1618 – 1645), the patroness of Ecuador. It is scored for soprano, flute, classical guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello, and percussion: wooden blocks, wind chimes, triangle, bass drum, glockenspiel, and crotales. …
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Byung-Hee Oh's Cantata Light of the East: A Fusion of Western and Korean Musical Elements.
Byung-Hee Oh (b. 1975) is a leading composer in the second generation of Korean choral composers. She has held professional positions including as a church musician, as an instructor at the Korea Choir Academy, on the faculty of Han-Sei University, as a composer and editor for the Korean publishing …
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Poetry and Patronage: Alessandro Scarlatti, The Accademia Degli Arcadia, and the Development of the Conversazione Cantata in Rome 1700-1710
… Scarlatti's settings of Antonio Ottoboni's cantata librettos in the anthology GB Lbm. Add. 34056. An examination of Arcadian cantatas and their texts reveals the nature of their audience, function, and their place within the historical development of the genre. The conversazione cantata did …
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The Rescuer in Danger: A Scholarly Performance Edition of Franz Xaver Süssmayr's Secular Cantata, Der Retter in Gefahr
… edition of Franz Xaver Süssmayr's secular cantata,Der Retter in Gefahr. The editing was accomplished through careful comparison of the manuscript full score, the manuscript orchestral and choral performing materials used in the first performances, and the published piano-vocal score used by …
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Expressions of African American identity in the cantata “Simon Bore the Cross” by Margaret Bonds and Langston Hughes
This dissertation examines the cantata Simon Bore the Cross by the composer Margaret Bonds and the poet Langston Hughes, a work that has never been studied before. It includes background on Bonds and an in-depth look at the letters between Bonds and Hughes, a correspondence which spanned over three …
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Jack Délano’s (1914-1997) Burundanga or Cantata Antillana: an art-music portrayal of Luis Palés Matos’s (1898-1959) black Caribbean
This is an analytical study of "Burundanga" or "Cantata Antillana" by Jack Délano (1914-1997). One of Délano’s most ambitious choral-orchestral compositions, "Burundanga" was completed in 1989 in response to a commission from the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture and is based on Luis Palés Matos’s …
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"MENDELSSOHN'S ""die ERSTE WALPURGISNACHT"""
… Opus 60, Die erste Walpurgisnacht, is a cantata approximately forty minutes' long for soloists, mixed chorus, and orchestra, with a ballad text by Goethe. Although not well known or often performed today, it warrants this full study of its intrinsic merit, former popularity, and central …
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All This the World Well Knows: a symphonic cantata in Sonnets and Proverbs for mixed chorus, four solo voices, and orchestra
… the World Well Knows is a 30-minute symphonic cantata for mixed chorus, four solo voices (soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, and baritone), and orchestra. The libretto, adapted by the composer, weaves together texts from Shakespeare's Dark Lady sonnets and from the King James Bible's book of …
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Aria Forms and Chorus Textures in Bach's Early Cantatas: The Influences of Neumeister, Telemann, and Rosenmueller
Two features found in the early cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach, the non-da-capo aria form (Kirchenarie) and the concertato-style chorus texture, have been previously attributed respectively to Bach himself and the Neapolitan school. However both features are also found in older Italian …
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"Cesar Geoffray and ""a Coeur Joie"": A Study of Geoffray's Choral Writing Including an English Adaptation of the Cantata ""salut Au Monde"""
The main purpose of this study was to examine the choral music of the twentieth century French composer Cesar Geoffray. Geoffray wrote a great deal of choral music,much of which was published, but his work remains largely unknown outside of the French-speaking world.
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John Daniels Carter: a biographical and musical profile with original piano transcription of Requiem Seditiosam: In Memoriam Medgar Evers
… Carter (1932-1981) is widely recognized for his Cantata for voice and piano (also arranged for voice and orchestra), Carter’s only published work. However, relatively little information has been published about Carter’s life, his compositional output, or career as a pianist. His date of birth and …
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SYMPHONY NO. 2 “SYMPHONY OF CHORALES” BY LUKAS FOSS: A STUDY IN COLLAGE AND MUSICAL BORROWING
… disparate styles with the premiere of American Cantata in 1976, while his third (1991) and fourth (1995) symphonies show a mastery of this sort of collage. The second symphony is significant because it shows one of the composer's first attempts to reconcile two very disparate compositional …
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Pax Britannica: Edward Elgar's Caractacus as a musical expression of British imperialism
… March. Among these works, Elgar’s secular cantata Caractacus has been the topic of significant discussion. Most of the discussion has focused on its jingoistic final chorus, particularly its seeming lack of congruity with the rest of the cantata. This dissertation shows how Elgar used the …
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Eighteenth-century solo soprano cantatas: A study of Christoph Graupner’s (1683-1760) style and contribution to this genre
… works, Graupner wrote over 1,400 sacred cantatas for use in the court chapel’s weekly services. In this study I will examine a small, but significant, segment of Graupner’s cantata oeuvre; the forty-eight solo soprano cantatas. The purpose of this study is to examine Graupner’s …
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