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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Requiem"”.
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Rediscovering Giuseppe Verdi's Messa da Requiem
… and publications of Giuseppe Verdi's Messa da Requiem raise issues concerning the relationship between these readings and the composer's intention. Understanding Verdi's tempo and phrasing in the Requiem is of crucial importance in rediscovering his intention. Knowing that Verdi's metronome …
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Requiem for wandering souls for orchestra
… identity that transcended national boundaries. Requiem for Wandering Souls explores intercultural synthesis by merging traditional Korean ritual music with contemporary orchestral idioms. Inspired by Jongmyo Jeryeak and secular ritual textures, the work integrates Korea’s rhythmic and timbral …
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requiem: a chapel for blacksburg virginia
The wall in Architecture is primary and paramount. In a hierarchical comparison with other elements, the wall is dominant because of the inherent potential housed within to inform our experience of place. It does more than divide what is in from what is out. It is where Architecture begins its …
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Idiomatic Compositional Techniques in John Rutter's Requiem
… significant figure in choral music, and his 1985 Requiem is one of his most widely performed works. Despite this popularity, it has yet to be analyzed in a rigorous academic capacity. <em>Requiem</em> is a harmonically rich and sophisticated work, and said lack of previous analysis represents a …
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Conductor's guide to Hanns Eisler's Lenin (Requiem)
… to prepare and plan the performance for Lenin (Requiem). The content including the thorough study of the piece itself, full preparation before the rehearsals, complete notes of each rehearsal, and feedback from participators. Lenin (Requiem) has not been frequently performed outside the Europe …
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Bradley Ellingboe’s Requiem: Influences and Analysis for Performance
… four larger choral-orchestral works in print. Requiem, composed in 2001, was Ellingboe’s first major work for choir and orchestra. Bradley Ellingboe’s study of the music of Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) and his prolonged exposure to Norwegian folk song and Lutheranism have influenced his melodic, …
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Modern Finnish choral music and Joonas Kokkonen's "Requiem"
The purpose of this study is to illuminate a diverse and refreshing body of music literature that is virtually unknown in North America--Finnish choral music. Because the arts reflect the cultures in which they are created, Chapter One will present an overview of Finland's history which is an …
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Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem: dialectic and the chromatic middleground
Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem (1868) has been the focus of much scholarly research. The present study focuses specifically on the work’s dialectic: the presentation and resolution of a conflict between mortal suffering and eternal joy. It takes an Schenkerian approach to the tonal content of the …
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Requiem : an original composition for choir, soloists and chamber wind ensemble
Requiem is an original composition for SATB choir; mezzo-soprano, tenor, and bass soloists; and chamber wind ensemble. The liturgical Latin text is set in ten movements with a performance duration of an hour. The composition has a mix of traditional elements—tripartite formal structures, movement …
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Requiem for Chorus and Harp: Conductor as Composer, Composer as Conductor
… St. Matthew's Schola Cantorum in 2000, and the Requiem for chorus and harp, begun in January 2007 and completed in April 2008, all with the composer conducting. The completed project will include copies of scores, a DVD of rehearsal excerpts, CDs and DVDs of the performance, and a text document …
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Contrafactum and Alternatim Praxis in Two Eighteenth Century Requiem Settings by Manuel De Sumaya
… Difuntos and Sequentia de Difuntos a 4 are two Requiem Settings recently discovered among a group of previously uncatalogued works that have were attributed to Sumaya. The first of the two works contains a movement with extended passages of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. Both of the …
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Structural Issues in the Three Requiem Masses of Father Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia (1767--1830), and the Requiem Mass CT 190, by Damiao Barbosa De Araujo, With Editions of CT 182, and CT 184
… used by the composer in his three surviving Requiem Masses, demonstrating some of the composer's sophisticated architectural designs. The question of authorship of the Requiem Mass in F Major (CT 190) formerly attributed to Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia, but found to be by another Brazilian …
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MASS FOR A TIME OF WAR: A REQUIEM HONORING THE VICTIMS OF THE IRAQI CONFLICT
… for the D.M.A. in composition consists of a Requiem Mass honoring the victims of the Iraqi war, a conflict that has stirred public debate since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. It is not meant as a political statement; rather, it is intended as a tribute in the broadest sense--not only for the …
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A Requiem to Departed Days: The Transformation and Retrenchment of Planter-Class Women in Georgia
<p>During the American Civil War, elite Southern women were required to step outside their traditional role as the protected gender in order to take on responsibilities like supporting Confederate troops, maintaining and operating plantations, supervising slaves, and providing for their families. …
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Requiem for a subsidy : state housing assistance for rental production (SHARP) in Massachusetts 1983-1986
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
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The music of Anton Nani : an historical and analytical approach with special reference to the 'Messa da requem' (1879)
… a special focus on one of his major works, the Requiem Mass (1879). It also includes an analytical and editorial study of this Requiem Mass, together with a comparative overview of the work and other contemporary Messa da Requiem. This Thesis includes the historical development of the musical …
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13-Limit Extended Just Intonation in Ben Johnston's String Quartet #7 and Toby Twining's "Chrysalid Requiem", "Gradual /Tract"
… the Gradual/Tract from Toby Twining's Chrysalid Requiem, both of which utilize this unique tuning and compositional resource. The discussion centers upon what is arguably among the most complex pieces of music ever written, the last movement of Johnston's String Quartet #7, entitled Variations. A …
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John Daniels Carter: a biographical and musical profile with original piano transcription of Requiem Seditiosam: In Memoriam Medgar Evers
… piano performances, his orchestral work, Requiem Seditiosam: In Memoriam Medgar Evers, and his vocal works including Saetas Profanas and the Cantata, performed by singers such as Leontyne Price, William Warfield, Adele Addison, and George Shirley. The author’s original piano solo …
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