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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"text setting"”.
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Benjamin Britten: Text Setting as Cultural Custodian in Art Song
Proposing the thesis that, for Benjamin Britten, text-setting analysis is analogous to song analysis; this dissertation cautions that non-engagement in text-setting is to approach song as if it were instrumental music; likewise, to consider inadequately the wide-ranging musical implications of …
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Then Svenska Messan by Johan Helmich Roman: A Study of Text Setting
… to the nature of the Swedish language when setting the text.
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Requiem : an original composition for choir, soloists and chamber wind ensemble
… 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 symmetry, and text setting conventions—and contemporary elements—chromatic melodies, …
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A Style Analysis of the Choral Music of Kenneth Leighton Using Representative Works
… Look at the Poetry Set; Melody and Harmony; Text Setting and Rhythm; Texture, Accompaniment, and Form; and the Conclusion. In Chapters Three, Four and Five, salient features of all five works are examined to look for consistencies of style and technique. Since pieces from different years are …
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Emphasizing the Articulatory and Timbral Aspects of Vocal Production in Vocal Composition
… categorized according to their use of text fragmentation, phonetic alteration, phones as timbral material and text-setting controls, articulatory action as a compositional focus or a gestural device, and speech-mode characteristics.
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John Dunstable and Leonel Power : a stylistic comparison.
… chord structure, melodic structure, speed, text setting and cadence progressions. Part Two compares a variety of uncertain works against the databases and in each case employs the statistical method of Discriminant Analysis to calculate which of the two composers is more likely to be …
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Poetry Into Song: Word-Music Relations in Settings of Goethe's Faust by Wagner and his Contemporaries (1832–1840)
… is true of Faust I where research into musical settings of Goethe's Faust has traditionally centred around canonical musical realisations of Faust confined to those by Schumann (Szenen aus Faust, 1844–1853), Liszt (Faust Symphony, 1857) and Mahler (Symphony No. 8, 1906). There is an urgent need …
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Texture in Elliott Carter’s A mirror on which to dwell
This study proposes a theory of texture for Elliott Carter's song cycle A Mirror on Which to Dwell. Texture is an important structural aspect of much recent music, as is exemplified in Carter's music. The first chapter is introductory and discusses other textural theories, and the concept of …
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Text and structure in Schoenberg's Op. 50, and an original composition, symphony #1
… other musical devices are used to illuminate the text setting; and 3) the three works of Op. 50 represent a unified artistic endeavor on a par with Schoenberg's other large-scale religious works, die Jakobsleiter and Moses und Aron. Part Two of this document is an original composition, Symphony …
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"An analysis of ""Seven Last Words from the Cross"" (1993) by James Macmillan"
… last words and passion story, including other settings of this text. This chapter also provides an overview of MacMillan’s piece including the text setting and a translation. Chapter four gives an in-depth analysis of the Seven Last Words from the Cross, examining compositional techniques, …
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"""The ineffable moments will be harder won"": the genesis, compositional process, and early performance history of Michael Tippett's The Heart's Assurance"
… casualties. The violent imagery of the poets’ texts supplied an appropriate framework to characterize Tippett’s ardent pacifism and his response to the losses of war. In fact, The Heart’s Assurance represented a watershed moment to Tippett throughout his life, one to which he returned …
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Singing Petrarch in the Cinquecento: Embodied Reading and the Italian Madrigal
… focused on musical depictions of the text’s semantics. The analysis in chapters 2, 3, and 4 shows that composers used a consistent set of techniques from the madrigals of Arcadelt to those of Monteverdi, and musical examples draw from large collection of madrigals on Petrarch sonnets. …