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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Text Painting"”.
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Text Painting In Significant Verses of Selected Settings of Psalm 116 Taken From Angst Der Hellen Und Friede Der Seelen, A Collection of Sixteen Motets On Psalm 116 Compiled by Burckhard Grossmann (Jena, 1623)
… musicians to compose settings of the Psalm 116 text from Luther's translation of the Bible. Angst der Hellen und Friede der Seelen became a unique collection without precedent at this juncture of music history. It served as a personal expression of Grossmann's faith and displayed the …
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Prayers of Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication: A Composition for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble
This paper examines the relationship between text and music in Prayers of Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication - a four-movement composition, fourteen minutes in length, for soprano, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, violin, double bass, and percussion. The text of the …
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A Study and Comparison of Two Trinidadian Panorama Arrangements for Steelband by Jit Samaroo: “Pan in a Minor” and “The Bee’s Melody
… thematic expansion, orchestration, and textural variation. “Pan in A Minor” retains much of Kitchener’s original material while introducing structural expansion, whereas “The Bee’s Melody” uses more experimental textures and text-painting techniques to create programmatic effects. The …
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Text Selection and Musical Treatment In Selected Choral Works of Jean Belmont Ford
… ways that Jean Belmont Ford (JBF) chooses her texts and how she uses music to illuminate the text for the listener. JBF has very imaginative ways of choosing and setting her texts, which set her apart from her contemporaries. Her music is becoming well known amongst choral musicians and …
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A Conductor’s Analysis of Almeida Prado’s Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to Saint Mark
… follows the gospel account, and no other poetic text, reflective chorales or arias were added. Among other factors, this work is unique in that the choir is used to carry the narrative throughout the work. Also, the composer masterfully uses text-painting in the choral and instrumental parts in …
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A Performance Guide for Thomas Pasatieri's Bel Canto Songs for Voice and Piano
… for major movie titles. The poet for the text in Bel Canto Songs is English poet, engraver, and artist William Blake, who lived from the mid-Eighteenth century into the Nineteenth century. Chapter One discussed the life and compositional style of Pasatieri. Chapter Two details Blake’s …
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A Study of Selected Clarinet Music of Brian Israel
… information on where to obtain the scores, texts to the poems of Kenneth Patchen, as well as a study of three, selected clarinet works, which trace his compositional development. The Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, a neo-classical work, is representative of his early style, using classical …
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Schumann and the Development of the Collaborative Relationship between Voice and Piano in Opus 48 Dichterliebe
… piano was accompaniment providing harmony and text painting. In the mature songs of Schumann, including Dichterliebe, the piano and voice were dependent, more collaborative with each other as not previously seen.
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Stephen Downing
… musical representations of imaginary minimalist paintings in a gallery or as a series of imaginary short films consisting of gradually shifting swathes of color. While the formal aspect of the piece is entirely organic and intuitive, the rhythmic devices and layering are derived from calculated …
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The Intersection of Personal Faith and Compositional Craft in Selected Choral Works of Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
… in the Christian church. His self-authored hymn texts reveal the depth and strength of his personal relationship with God, and his dependence upon Jesus Christ. Analysis of three of his musical works gives evidence of his faith. Das ist mir Lieb, his setting of Psalm 116, enhances and depicts the …
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Arabaribiti, for SATB Voices Divisi
… and compositional techniques. Hence, the texts are carefully set to music with consideration to the melodic contour that mirrors the meaning of the texts in the Yorùbá language, with the melody largely adhering to the natural and tonemic speech patterns of the Yorùbá language. The harmonic …