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Trukhanova, Alexandra G. "The Characteristic Features of Vassily Titov’s Choral Music." ICONI, no. 1 (2021): 61–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.33779/2658-4824.2021.1.061-067.
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Among the Russian composers of the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries a special position is held by the sacred choral works of Vassily Titov (ca. 1650 — ca. 1715), one of the bright representatives of the polyphonic part singing, in which the originality of the Russian Baroque musical culture. The music of Vassily Titov, an outstanding master of choral writing, is diverse in terms of its genres, it comprises nearly two hundred compositions, many of which predominated in the church music repertoire of Russian churches during the course of the 18th century. A study of Vassily Titov’s choral works has made it possible to disclose the characteristic features of the composer’s polyphonic style. The latter include the multi-choral presentation with its bright spatial effects, the antiphonic juxtapositions of large choral masses, the principles of concertizing based on the succession of solo voices and tutti, on the juxtaposition of the chordal-harmonic and the polyphonic exposition, as well as the skillful mastery of imitational counterpoint, up to polyphonic variation. Features of national originality reveal themselves most vividly in the musical thematicism of the compositions, where along with the ornamental design of the intertwining melodic lines and turns of an instrumental type, use is made of intonations of folk songs, cants and church chants. In his musical oeuvres Vassily Titov revised and reevaluated the basic characteristic traits and forms of Western European Baroque music in correspondence with the particularities of Russian musical culture, thereby preserving and enriching the traditions of the Russian national style.
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Lupu, Anamaria. "The Influence of Luther's View of Music on the Emergence of the Concepts of Musica poetica and Musical Rhetoric." Musicology Papers 35, no. 1 (November 1, 2020): 41–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.47809/mp.2020.35.01.03.
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La casa di peste drum [At the House across the Road] is, perhaps, Tudor Jarda`s most emblematic choral work, being the first composition of the 10 carols for mixed choir included in the volume Coruri [Choral Works] (1981). Dedicated to Maestro Dorin Pop and the Cappella Transylvanica choir, this work has been part of the ensemble`s repertoire since the publication of the collection, being also found in the repertoire of the most important Cluj and Transylvanian choirs. This paper aims to detail aspects of musical grammar in the choral work La casa di peste drum, highlighting the close connection between the text and music and its implications in the choral interpretation. The morphological and syntactic analysis also highlights certain characteristics of Tudor Jarda`s choral writing.
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BRADY, MARTIN. "Paul Dessau and the Hard Work of Socialist Music in the German Democratic Republic." Twentieth-Century Music 16, no. 1 (February 2019): 51–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478572219000094.
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AbstractThis article examines the labour of socialist music in the German Democratic Republic, focusing on composer Paul Dessau's use of political cryptography and quotation in a number of compositions from the opera The Condemnation of Lukullus (1950) through to Choral Music No. 5 (1976). Most famous for his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, Dessau was the leading avant-garde composer of the GDR and its chief practitioner of serialism. He believed that only difficult, progressive New Music could convey the struggle(s) of socialism. This brought him into conflict with the authorities, who accused him of formalism. Choral Music No. 5 is a setting of a poem by Heiner Müller based on a speech by Erich Honecker (Žižek refers to the text as an ‘obscenity’). Dessau's composition is complex and dialectical, abrasive in its rhythms and counterpoint, and pluralistic in style. It is the embodiment of Dessau's belief in socialist music as rewarding hard work.
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GREAVU, Elena-Laura, and Roxana PEPELEA. "Stylistic aspects reflected in the musical choral volume Cântece pentru copii/Songs for children, signed by Dan Voiculescu." BULLETIN OF THE TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV SERIES VIII - PERFORMING ARTS 13 (62), SI (January 20, 2021): 85–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.31926/but.pa.2020.13.62.3.9.
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In Dan Voiculescu's choral compositions, music and poetry are particularly intertwined, the syncretism of the arts being a fundamental feature in the composer's approach to this type of repertoire. The more detailed analysis, with examples of excerpts from works from the volume Songs for Children, are convincing proof of the compositional mastery that is necessary for the succesful creation of a deep connection between musical construction and text. Even the choice of certain elements related to the mode of musical composition (subordinated to the melodic, harmonic, polyphonic, rhythmic, metrical, dynamic, formal structure, etc.) demonstrates the intrinsic nature of the connection between music and the message of poetic lyrics. At the same time, the capitalization of the Romanian folklore resources, the incorporation in certain works of some underlying influence from baroque music and the preoccupation of introducing innovations related to the singing technique of the choral repertoire on equal voices represent some of the multiple stylistic features reflected in this volume.
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Dzivaltivskyi, Maxim. "Historical formation of the originality of an American choral tradition of the second half of the XX century." Aspects of Historical Musicology 21, no. 21 (March 10, 2020): 23–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum2-21.02.
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Background. Choral work of American composers of the second half of the XX century is characterized by new qualities that have appeared because of not only musical but also non-musical factors generated by the system of cultural, historical and social conditions. Despite of a serious amount of scientific literature on the history of American music, the choral layer of American music remains partially unexplored, especially, in Ukrainian musical science, that bespeaks the science and practical novelty of the research results. The purpose of this study is to discover and to analyze the peculiarities of the historical formation and identity of American choral art of the second half of the twentieth century using the the works of famous American artists as examples. The research methodology is based on theoretical, historical and analytical methods, generalization and specification. Results. The general picture of the development of American composers’ practice in the genre of choral music is characterized by genre and style diversity. In our research we present portraits of iconic figures of American choral music in the period under consideration. So, the choral works of William Dawson (1899–1990), one of the most famous African-American composers, are characterized by the richness of the choral texture, intense sonority and demonstration of his great understanding of the vocal potential of the choir. Dawson was remembered, especially, for the numerous arrangements of spirituals, which do not lose their popularity. Aaron Copland (1899–1990), which was called “the Dean of American Composers”, was one of the founder of American music “classical” style, whose name associated with the America image in music. Despite the fact that the composer tends to atonalism, impressionism, jazz, constantly uses in his choral opuses sharp dissonant sounds and timbre contrasts, his choral works associated with folk traditions, written in a style that the composer himself called “vernacular”, which is characterized by a clearer and more melodic language. Among Copland’s famous choral works are “At The River”, “Four Motets”, “In the Beginning”, “Lark”, “The Promise of Living”; “Stomp Your Foot” (from “The Tender Land”), “Simple Gifts”, “Zion’s Walls” and others. Dominick Argento’s (1927–2019) style is close to the style of an Italian composer G. C. Menotti. Argento’s musical style, first of all, distinguishes the dominance of melody, so he is a leading composer in the genre of lyrical opera. Argento’s choral works are distinguished by a variety of performers’ stuff: from a cappella choral pieces – “A Nation of Cowslips”, “Easter Day” for mixed choir – to large-scale works accompanied by various instruments: “Apollo in Cambridge”, “Odi et Amo”, “Jonah and the Whale”, “Peter Quince at the Clavier”, “Te Deum”, “Tria Carmina Paschalia”, “Walden Pond”. For the choir and percussion, Argento created “Odi et Amo” (“I Hate and I Love”), 1981, based on the texts of the ancient Roman poet Catullus, which testifies to the sophistication of the composer’s literary taste and his skill in reproducing complex psychological states. The most famous from Argento’s spiritual compositions is “Te Deum” (1988), where the Latin text is combined with medieval English folk poetry, was recorded and nominated for a Grammy Award. Among the works of Samuel Barber’s (1910–1981) vocal and choral music were dominating. His cantata “Prayers of Kierkegaard”, based on the lyrics of four prayers by this Danish philosopher and theologian, for solo soprano, mixed choir and symphony orchestra is an example of an eclectic trend. Chapter I “Thou Who art unchangeable” traces the imitation of a traditional Gregorian male choral singing a cappella. Chapter II “Lord Jesus Christ, Who suffered all lifelong” for solo soprano accompanied by oboe solo is an example of minimalism. Chapter III “Father in Heaven, well we know that it is Thou” reflects the traditions of Russian choral writing. William Schumann (1910–1992) stands among the most honorable and prominent American composers. In 1943, he received the first Pulitzer Prize for Music for Cantata No 2 “A Free Song”, based on lyrics from the poems by Walt Whitman. In his choral works, Schumann emphasized the lyrics of American poetry. Norman Luboff (1917–1987), the founder and conductor of one of the leading American choirs in the 1950–1970s, is one of the great American musicians who dared to dedicate most of their lives to the popular media cultures of the time. Holiday albums of Christmas Songs with the Norman Luboff Choir have been bestselling for many years. In 1961, Norman Luboff Choir received the Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Chorus. Luboff’s productive work on folk song arrangements, which helped to preserve these popular melodies from generation to generation, is considered to be his main heritage. The choral work by Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) – a great musician – composer, pianist, brilliant conductor – is represented by such works as “Chichester Psalms”, “Hashkiveinu”, “Kaddish” Symphony No 3)”,”The Lark (French & Latin Choruses)”, “Make Our Garden Grow (from Candide)”, “Mass”. “Chichester Psalms”, where the choir sings lyrics in Hebrew, became Bernstein’s most famous choral work and one of the most successfully performed choral masterpieces in America. An equally popular composition by Bernstein is “Mass: A Theater Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers”, which was dedicated to the memory of John F. Kennedy, the stage drama written in the style of a musical about American youth in searching of the Lord. More than 200 singers, actors, dancers, musicians of two orchestras, three choirs are involved in the performance of “Mass”: a four-part mixed “street” choir, a four-part mixed academic choir and a two-part boys’ choir. The eclecticism of the music in the “Mass” shows the versatility of the composer’s work. The composer skillfully mixes Latin texts with English poetry, Broadway musical with rock, jazz and avant-garde music. Choral cycles by Conrad Susa (1935–2013), whose entire creative life was focused on vocal and dramatic music, are written along a story line or related thematically. Bright examples of his work are “Landscapes and Silly Songs” and “Hymns for the Amusement of Children”; the last cycle is an fascinating staging of Christopher Smart’s poetry (the18 century). The composer’s music is based on a synthesis of tonal basis, baroque counterpoint, polyphony and many modern techniques and idioms drawn from popular music. The cycle “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, created by a composer and a pianist William Bolcom (b. 1938) on the similar-titled poems by W. Blake, represents musical styles from romantic to modern, from country to rock. More than 200 vocalists take part in the performance of this work, in academic choruses (mixed, children’s choirs) and as soloists; as well as country, rock and folk singers, and the orchestral musicians. This composition successfully synthesizes an impressive range of musical styles: reggae, classical music, western, rock, opera and other styles. Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943) was named “American Choral Master” by the National Endowment for the Arts (2006). The musical language of Lauridsen’s compositions is very diverse: in his Latin sacred works, such as “Lux Aeterna” and “Motets”, he often refers to Gregorian chant, polyphonic techniques of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and mixes them with modern sound. Lauridsen’s “Lux Aeterna” is a striking example of the organic synthesis of the old and the new traditions, or more precisely, the presentation of the old in a new way. At the same time, his other compositions, such as “Madrigali” and “Cuatro Canciones”, are chromatic or atonal, addressing us to the technique of the Renaissance and the style of postmodernism. Conclusions. Analysis of the choral work of American composers proves the idea of moving the meaningful centers of professional choral music, the gradual disappearance of the contrast, which had previously existed between consumer audiences, the convergence of positions of “third direction” music and professional choral music. In the context of globalization of society and media culture, genre and stylistic content, spiritual meanings of choral works gradually tend to acquire new features such as interaction of ancient and modern musical systems, traditional and new, modified folklore and pop. There is a tendency to use pop instruments or some stylistic components of jazz, such as rhythm and intonation formula, in choral compositions. Innovative processes, metamorphosis and transformations in modern American choral music reveal its integration specificity, which is defined by meta-language, which is formed basing on interaction and dialogue of different types of thinking and musical systems, expansion of the musical sound environment, enrichment of acoustic possibilities of choral music, globalization intentions. Thus, the actualization of new cultural dominants and the synthesis of various stylistic origins determine the specificity of American choral music.
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Olwage, Grant. "John Knox Bokwe, Colonial Composer: Tales about Race and Music." Journal of the Royal Musical Association 131, no. 1 (2006): 1–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrma/fki010.
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This article intervenes in debates on the status of ‘race’ in ethno/musicological writings. It does so through an examination of the compositional discourse of colonial black South African choral music, particularly detailed analyses of the work of John Knox Bokwe (1855–1922) and their metropolitan sources such as late nineteenth-century gospel hymnody, exploring both how Bokwe's compositional practice enacted a politics that became anticolonial and how early black choral music became ‘black’ in its receptions. The article concludes that ethno/musicological claims that colonial black choral music contains ‘African’ musical content conflate race and culture under a double imperative: in the names of a decolonizing politics and a postcolonial epistemology in which hybridity as resistance is racialized.
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Stucky, Steven, and Istvan Anhalt. "Alternative Voices: Essays on Contemporary Vocal and Choral Composition." Journal of Music Theory 31, no. 1 (1987): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/843548.
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BC and Istvan Anhalt. "Alternative Voices. Essays on Contemporary Vocal and Choral Composition." Yearbook for Traditional Music 17 (1985): 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/768452.
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Lawrence, Mark. "Ancient song re-employed: The use of Regilaul in the music of Veljo Tormis." Studia Musicologica 56, no. 4 (December 2015): 343–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/6.2015.56.4.4.
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The music of Veljo Tormis (b. 1930) became well-established in Estonia during the 1960s yet remained little known in the West until the fall of Communism. By incorporating traditional Estonian folk song, regilaul, into his works, Tormis’s name became closely associated for Estonians with upholding a sense of national identity against the Soviet regime. It is his vast output of some 500 choral songs for which he is most immediately recognised; indeed, once regilaul had come to dominate the ‘Tormis style’, he dedicated himself almost exclusively to choral composition. This paper examines regilaul, its impact on Tormis during his formative years, and its integration into his mature compositional style, leading him to claim that he had ‘found his voice’ as a composer.
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Göncz, Zoltán. "In search of the lost parts of Bach’s cantata Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (bwv190)." Early Music 47, no. 4 (November 2019): 515–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/em/caz068.
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Abstract The surviving manuscript score of Bach’s first cantata for New Year’s Day in Leipzig (bwv190) does not contain the first two movements of the composition; only the choral parts and the two violin parts have survived. The parts for the three trumpets, timpani, three oboes, bassoon, viola and continuo are all lost. What is left is so incomplete and the loss of information so dramatic that we might think a performance of the first movement would be out of the question. This article appraises previous scholarly reconstructions of the movement and introduces the author’s own reconstruction, which is published in full in an online appendix. In the process of reconstruction, many insights arise into Bach’s compositional technique for large-scale choral movements and his preferred instrumentation.
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Kritskiy, Aleksandr B., and Boris D. Kritskiy. "Phenomenon of Choral Sonority in the Context of Intonation Theory as a Component of the University Training of the Musician-Pedagogue." Musical Art and Education 8, no. 2 (2020): 54–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.31862//2309-1428-2020-8-2-54-71.
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The article was written based on the results of a theoretical study by Boris Dmitrievich Kritskiy, my father, who proposed to introduce scientific terms “musical phonics” into the spheres of musicology, pedagogy of music education and performing arts. In his view, “musical phonics” should be considered as a field of scientific and methodical research of audio (instrumental, vocal-choral) design of the process of music performed. And the audio embodiment of the musical text as a relatively independent phenomenon in a broad interpretation is a phonic form. Vocal design of choral sound is a necessary structural component of the performance. From the point of view of intonation theory of music, choral sonority – singing, vocal-choral materialization of the score – is a specially interpreted text. The audio quality is seen as a problem of vocal choral performance in the preparation of a future teacher-musician/choirmaster. There is a belief about the need for future teachers-musicians to understand the methods of constructing the audio matter of music. The methods transform the musical text in accordance with the form, logic of the development of the figurative and artistic meaning of the work and are aimed at the education of the audio culture among the choral collective. Work on the creation of a phonic form involves establishing intonation links between the performed work and the methods of its mastery. The leading role in its crystallization is played by a meaningful plan of music, which allows us to speak about it as a historical category, defined by genre-stylistic features of performed works. Built according to the laws of beauty and at the same time reflecting the spirit of its time, the era in which the performer creates, it reveals the changes that characterize the culture of vocal and choral performance. The performed composition, included in the context of broad cultural and life relations, is saturated with a new meaning. As an example, the phonic form in orthodox liturgical singing is considered.
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Rose, Richard F., and Michael J. Wagner. "Eminence Choices in Three Musical Genres and Music Media Preferences." Journal of Research in Music Education 43, no. 3 (October 1995): 251–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3345640.
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Subjects in college classes (N = 413) were asked to list five compositions that should “live forever” in three categories: pop/rock, orchestral, and choral/operatic. The students also provided information regarding musical training listening habits, and ownership of audio equipment. Fewer than 50% of the subjects listed five compositions in any one category. Subjects with approximately 10 years of music training completed more entries in the orchestral and choral/operatic categories than did those with fewer years of study. Those who had 3 or more years of music study were better able to complete the music survey than were other subjects. Approximately equal numbers of subjects preferred to listen to music on tapes, radios, and compact disc (CD) formats. Generally, younger subjects listened to more music per day than did older subjects, and subjects who preferred to listen to music on CD players listened to music more hours per day than did subjects choosing other devices.
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Allphin, Penrose M. "Trans Sonorities in Grey Grant's “Drones for the In-Between Times”." TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 8, no. 3 (August 1, 2021): 394–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/23289252-9009010.
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Abstract Composer intent has generally been downplayed by contemporary music analysts, often being regarded as an example of an intentional fallacy at best and misleading at worst. This analysis of Grey Grant's choral work posits that such a dismissal not only ignores the potential for an enhanced expressive context afforded by composers' own assessments, but it also contributes to the silencing of already marginalized voices, such as in the case of transgender composers. The author proposes a methodology that incorporates the voices of living composers while circumventing concerns about confirmation bias by building on the framework of music theory, queer musicology, and queer theory. The article demonstrates this theoretical framework using an interview of a transgender composer to supplement an analysis of their contemporary choral piece. By analyzing the work with the added context of the composer's statements about their own music, the author paints a more complete picture of the work, one that reinvests music analysis with the trans voice behind the composition.
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Bauer, Amy. "Richard Steinitz, György Ligeti: Music of the Imagination (London: Faber and Faber, 2003), ISBN 0 571 17631 3 (hb)." Twentieth-Century Music 2, no. 2 (September 2005): 302–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478572206220292.
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Hungarian composer György Ligeti has not lacked for attention since coming into contact with Europe’s new music scene in the early 1960s. In 1966 he was featured in Moderne Musik I: 1945–65, and by 1969 Erkki Salmenhaara had published a dissertation on three major works. Although periodic illness and a painstaking approach to composition slowed his progress, Ligeti continued to refine and expand his style in the 1970s, producing everything from intimate solo works for harpsichord to the suitably grand opera Le Grand Macabre (1974–7, revised 1996). His turn towards traditional orchestral forms and a quasi-diatonic language in the 1980s brought him new prominence, and the voluble composer has seemed ever ready to provide ripe commentary on his work and the state of new music. The numerous awards and publications that followed Ligeti’s seventieth birthday in 1993 support his status as probably the most widely fêted and influential composer of the latter half of the twentieth century. And if that degree of timely recognition was not enough, the composer has entered his ninth decade with no noticeable decline in compositional energy or ideas. Ligeti continues to fashion brilliant revisions of the tried but true genres of concerto, solo étude, song cycle, choral work, and character piece. His compositions bear the weight of extramusical influence as well as that from beyond the Western canon, yet each innovation affirms his inimitable voice and his singular musical journey from the mid-twentieth to the twenty-first century.
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Silvey, Philip E. "Learning to Perform Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb." Journal of Research in Music Education 53, no. 2 (July 2005): 102–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002242940505300202.
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The purpose of this research was to examine the way three high school students perceived and experienced a choral composition they were learning to perform. This case study, conducted over a period of five months, chronicled the experiences and perceptions of three students from a large midwestern high school mixed choir as they learned to perform the extended choral composition Rejoice in the Lamb by Benjamin Britten. Three categories of experience (found to correlate with three philosophical forms of knowledge) emerged through data analysis: (1) impression (prepositional knowledge), (2) construction (procedural knowledge), and (3) understanding (acquaintance knowledge). Participants generally experienced these knowledge forms progressively, but also shifted between them idiosyncratically. Singers tended to focus on the technical skills needed to perform the music with accuracy. Deeper levels of understanding were contingent on each participant's personal history, openness, and effort in relation to the composition. July 8, 2004 May 4, 2005.
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Owen, Barbara. "The Maturation of The Secular Organ Recital In America's Gilded Age." Nineteenth-Century Music Review 12, no. 1 (June 2015): 95–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479409815000063.
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While organs had been built in the United States since the eighteenth century, until the middle of the nineteenth century what passed as an ‘organ concert’ consisted of a mélange of transcriptions from choral music and simple improvisations, interspersed with choral music and vocal solos. As larger organs began to appear by the middle of the nineteenth century, solo organ recitals by players such as George W. Morgan were occasionally performed. In the 1850s Americans such as Dudley Buck and John K. Paine travelled to Germany to study organ performance and composition, and others followed. The opening of a large organ in Boston's Music Hall in 1863 and the building of large churches in the post-war period gave impetus to public organ recitals, which along with compositions by Bach, Mendelssohn, Rinck and Batiste etc. usually included transcriptions from operas and orchestral works, and compositions by the performers. At first, the emphasis was on Germanic music, but as the second half of the century progressed and more organists were studying abroad, works by British and French composers began to appear. By the end of the century the emphasis had become strongly French, particularly after the concert tours of Parisian virtuoso Alexandre Guilmant, and America's first true concert organist, Clarence Eddy, began making tours to European countries. By this time many large organs had been built for concert halls, cathedrals, colleges, and urban churches, providing excellent venues for solo organ recitals as the twentieth century opened.
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Yajun, Wang. "Pedagogical conditions of the formation of the communicative culture of the future teacher of musical art in the process of conducting and choral education." Musical art in the educological discourse, no. 3 (2018): 125–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2518-766x.2018.3.125131.
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The article describes pedagogical conditions for the communicative culture formation of a future music art teacher and the process of conducting-choir training. It is noted that the pedagogical condition is a point of the learning process, the result of purposeful selection, design and use of content elements, methods, devices, as well as organized forms of training to achieve specific didactic goals. The pedagogical condition must be the result of a well-thought-out and thorough selection of each of the elements of the educational process. It is emphasized that observance of pedagogical conditions is necessary in connection with the possibility to realize innovative professional training of future music art teachers. The article substantiates feasibility of using the component structure of the communicative culture of a future music art teacher in defining a set of pedagogical conditions, in particular: motivational and value based; emotionally empathic; cognitive-informational; activity-behavioral components.Based on the didactic analysis of the structure and content of the communicative culture of a future music art teacher, four pedagogical conditions have been identified. The first condition is strengthening of value-semantic aspects in the content of conducting-choral training of future music art teachers. Any musical composition exists as a product of culture, independent from a listener but with some known meaning, which depends on the composer, its creator. Inclusion of empathic-creative tasks in the process of conducting-choral training on the basis of a dialogue between cultures (the second pedagogical condition) implies that a unified understanding of interpretative tasks and the content of performance forms an empathic-creative attitude towards music among participants of the educational choral group. The third pedagogical condition is creation of a positive incentive to the collective spiritual and creative interaction of the participants of the educational choral group. It is focused on a «dialogue position», which has a special dynamic character and is aimed at all participants in the dialogue. To create the atmosphere of creativity in classes, maintaining contact with students in the educational choir, it is necessary to stimulate creative self-realization of students in socio-cultural conducting and choir activity. This circumstance has formed the basis for the fourth pedagogical condition for the formation of the communicative culture of a future music art teacher and the process of conducting-choral education.
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Тарасова, Н. Ю., and І. В. Свиридова. "Spiritual choral compositions by I. Alexiychuk: to the problem of individual style." Музикознавча думка Дніпропетровщини, no. 16 (December 18, 2019): 17–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.33287/221919.
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The perpose of this scientific article is disclosing and clarifying ofindividual style traits in reference to spiritual choral masterpieces, worksby I. Alexiychuk. The methods of this researching are based on the use ofmusical-cultural, comparative-historical, theoretical-analytical and textualapproaches. Scientific novelty. The study of individual style interpretationin the spiritual and choral work of I. Aleksiychuk a namely – genre modelof the psalm and prayer miniature is further developed; individual methodsof creative development of stylistic, stylistic and technical innovations ofUkrainian choral music of the second half of the twentieth century arespecified. Conclusions. In Alexeychuk's spiritual and choir genre models of psalm and prayer miniature show continuity with national traditions ofUkrainian Orthodox music and at the same time bright individual featuresof choral style. They testify to the composer’s free attitude towardsselected canonical prayer texts, which are of rather symbolic andbackground significance. Choral prayer miniatures embody the dramaticand compositional features of neo-romantic choral concert, fantasy, andcompetitiveness. Characteristic of the style of the composer is the appealto variant-variant, couplet-strophic, simple two-part, three-part reprisal,contrast-component and pan forms. Their combination in the works givesthe sound of spiritual-choir miniatures of „patterned” color. High role inthe individual choral style Alexeychuk principles of contrast, whichmanifest themselves in textured, harmonious, tempo, metro-rhythmic,dynamic layers, which contributes to the internal dynamics andcolorfulness of choral matter.
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Lokareva, Yuliya. "METHODICAL ASPECTS OF MUSIC AND THEORETICAL TRAINING IN HIGHER ART EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS." Academic Notes Series Pedagogical Science 1, no. 192 (March 2021): 102–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.36550/2415-7988-2021-1-192-102-106.
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The article actualizes the problem of music-theoretical training in higher educational institutions, reveals the pedagogical potential of music-theoretical disciplines, explores the methodological aspects of optimizing the process of music-theoretical training on the basis of an integrated approach. research analysis revealed the pedagogical potential of music-theoretical training for the professional development of future music teachers, multifaceted opportunities of music-theoretical disciplines, demonstrated the versatility of music-theoretical training (cognitive-informational, practical, creative, projective functions), proved the need for its focus on music -creative activity, which consists of various types (instrumental-performing, conductor-choral, improvisational-creative, research, lecture-educational, compositional and others) and affects the comprehensive disclosure and practical implementation of the creative potential of students of higher art educational institutions. The current stage of development of national education is characterized by the actualization of the role of art disciplines during the professional development of the personality of the future teacher of music art. Music-theoretical training is the basis of the process of formation of professional competencies of future music teachers. The problem of raising the level of professionalism of future music teachers largely depends on music-theoretical training aimed at various types of music-creative activities that are important for the training of students of higher art schools. Thus, the analysis of research revealed the pedagogical potential of music-theoretical training for the professional development of future music teachers, multifaceted possibilities of music-theoretical disciplines, demonstrated the versatility of music-theoretical training (cognitive-informational, practical, creative, projective functions), proved the need for its direction on musical and creative activity, which consists of different types (instrumental-performing, conducting-choral, improvisational-creative, research, lecture-educational, compositional and others) and influences the comprehensive disclosure and practical implementation of the creative potential of students of higher art education institutions.
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Mathew, Nicholas. "Beethoven's Political Music, the Handelian Sublime, and the Aesthetics of Prostration." 19th-Century Music 33, no. 2 (2009): 110–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncm.2009.33.2.110.
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Abstract This article argues for a number of hitherto unrecognized continuities——stylistic, aesthetic, and ideological——between Beethoven's marginalized ““political music”” from the period of the Congress of Vienna and his canonical symphonic works. It rereads his œœuvre against the background of the popularity and ubiquity of the ““Handelian sublime”” in early-nineteenth-century Viennese public life——that is, the aesthetics and social practice of grand choral singing, associated primarily with some of Handel's oratorios, but also with the late choral works of Haydn. Presenting new archival research into Vienna's politicized choral culture, the article argues that contemporary theorizing about the power of the musical sublime became the theoretical wing of music's changing social status, as it was mobilized by the state during the Napoleonic Wars more than ever before. These new, Handelian contexts for Beethoven's music lead to three conclusions. First, the choral aesthetic background to Beethoven's symphonies has been largely overlooked. With reference to original performance contexts as well as the topical character of Beethoven's symphonies, the article argues that the symphonies are often best understood as orchestral transmutations of the grand Handelian chorus. Against this background, the appearance of an actual chorus in the Ninth might be reconceived as a moment when the genre's aesthetic debt is most apparent, rather than a shocking generic transgression. Second, the distinction, commonly elaborated by Beethoven scholars, between the mere bombast of Beethoven's political compositions and the ““authentic,”” Kantian sublime of human freedom supposedly articulated in his symphonies cannot easily be sustained. Third, the cultural entanglement of choral and symphonic music in Beethoven's Vienna reveals something not only of the political origins but also of the continuing political potency of Beethoven's symphonies. With reference to Althusserian theories of power and subjectivity, the article speculates that the compelling sense of listener subjectivity created by Beethoven's most vaunted symphonic compositions (noted by Scott Burnham) comes about in part through the music's and the listener's transformation of external, choral reflections of political power into internal, symphonic ones——a transformation that leaves its mark on the topical character of the symphonies, which, especially in their most intense moments of subjective engagement, are replete with official topics and gestures: marches, hymns, and fugues. This might explain why the music has so often been heard as simultaneously browbeating and uplifting, authoritarian and liberating.
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Duţică, Luminiţa. "Choose Music! A Consulting and Training Strategy for Admission to Higher Education in Music." Review of Artistic Education 17, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 40–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rae-2019-0004.
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Abstract The educational project CHOOSE MUSIC!, subtitled “for counselling and training for admission to higher education in music”, was created many years ago, at the initiative of Prof. Univ. PhD. Luminiţa Duţică, with the main purpose of creating a bridge between the pre-university and academic musical education (through pupils - students, pupils - university professors, etc.). Another special objective was to promote the image and opportunities existing at “George Enescu” National University of Arts of Iași. In this respect, inter-institutional partnerships were established between the Faculty of Interpretation, Composition and Theoretical Music Studies within “George Enescu” National University of Arts of Iași and numerous art high schools/colleges, especially from the regions of Moldavia (Suceava, Botoșani, Bacău, Piatra-Neamț, Iași, Bârlad and Galați). In this study we will go into more detailed aspects related to teaching and art activities made for this purpose, diverse and attractive, evidenced by: demonstration lessons of Music theory, Classical composition / jazz – easy listening, Musicology, Choral/Orchestral Conducting, MasterClass for aspects regarding the perception and graphic representation of the sounds, as well as the specific musical skills training (held by professors Luminiţa and Gheorghe Duţică), to which educational concerts, book launches, special meetings with teachers from the pre-university education, additional training with students for admission to the academic musical education in Iași (especially in the contest subject called Theory - Solfeggio –Melodic Dictation.
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ZALIYEVA, Leyla. "THE DRAMATURGİCAL ROLE OF CHORAL SCENES İN VASİF ADİGOZALOV’S OPERA “DEAD”." IEDSR Association 6, no. 12 (March 29, 2021): 57–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.46872/pj.268.
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Vasif Adigozalov was one of the artists who attracted attention during the brilliant development of the Azerbaijani composition school in the 70 s of the XX century. Born in Karabakh, a fascinating sorner of Azerbaijan, in the family of the famous and talented singer Zulfu Adigozalov’s works reflected the priceless pages of the national music culture. The story-based opera “The Dead”, which entered the history of literature as a comedy, is also regarded as the first comedy opera in our music history. However, every Azerbaijani who knows the work realizes what a great tragedy is actually happening here. V.Adigozalov began writing this work after graduating from the conservatory. The play was performed at the Azerbaijan State Opera and Ballet Theater named after M.F.Akhundof, in 1963. In V.Adigozalov’s opera, the choir acts as one of the main characters in the dramatic development of the work. Each choral stage server as a driving force within, as well as conditioning the course of events. The choir also represents the image of the public and character that expresses the main idea of the work. In this respect, particular attention should be paid to women’s choir. Because women who are victims of this ignorance. Therefore, the screams, deep tragedies and dramas of the women’s choir are reflected. Another concrete example of the women’s theme is seen in the scenes with Nazli and her mother. In particular, choral scenes, which express Nazli’s belief in the return of his dead sister, eventually lost all hope, and the moaning of traumatized young girls, are the dramatic culmination of the tragedy in opera. When we look at the musical language of the choirs, national intonation and rhythmic features draw attention. The intonations of folk music, characteristic of the composer’s musical language, are clearly felt in all stages of the opera and in the choir. Considering the unique melodies of V.Adigozalov’s vocal music in the vocal and choral performance is important. This direction is also reflevted in other music and stage work, including the composer’s vocal music.
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Cockayne, Daniel. "Considering Matthew Shepard: normative and anti-normative queer spatial narratives and the politics of performance in choral music." cultural geographies 26, no. 4 (June 16, 2019): 471–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474474019856409.
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I present a cultural geographical analysis of the recent choral composition Considering Matthew Shepard. I explore the cultural, musical, and emotional geographies of this piece of music, in terms of its content and my experience of rehearsing and then performing the piece as a member of the choir. Drawing on cultural geography, musical geography, and queer theory, I argue that the memorializing of Matthew Shepard’s killing through this musical setting both repeats and challenges the normative popular and academic framings of Shepard’s murder and, more generally, queer critiques of the memorialization and historicization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer pasts. I explore this by examining three spatial themes in Considering Matthew Shepard: its representations of (1) Wyoming, (2) the fence (where Shepard was left by his assailants), and (3) universality. I also point to what musical geographies might gain in looking more closely at choral music performance.
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Kosaniak, Nataliia. "Vasyl Bezkorovayny’s vocal works in Ukrainian music of the first half of the XX century." Proceedings of Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv, no. 11(27) (2019): 500–515. http://dx.doi.org/10.37222/2524-0315-2019-11(27)-21.
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Vasyl Bezkorovayny (1880–1966) was a talented artist, an active figure in the musical life of Galicia and a representative of post-war Ukrainian emigrants in the United States of America. He wrote more than 350 works of various genres. Among them are compositions for symphony orchestra; vocal works — for chorus, ensembles or solo singing; chamber and instrumental music — for piano, violin, zither, cello; music for dramatic performances. The article deals with the archival and musicological analysis of expressive and stylistic features of V. Bezkorovayny’s vocal works, based on the materials of Stefanyk Lviv National Library of Ukraine. Attention is paid to the place of the composer’s vocal masterpieces in the context of Ukrainian vocal music of the first half of the XX century. The most important achievements of the composer related to the genres of choral and chamber vocal music. In style, the composer’s works combine the influences of M. Lysenko, composers of the «Peremyshl school» and Western European romantic and post-romantic models. The original secular choral music of V. Bezkorovayny covers genres of songs, plays, and large-form choirs. In his solo songs the influences of romantic western European music and Ukrainian folk songs affected the formation and approval of the composer’s style. Keywords: vocal music, chorus, solos, melodic-intonation means, harmony, rhythm.
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Nikolaeva, Elena V. "Individual and Personal Approach to Children at the Initial Stage of Learning Choral Singing." Musical Art and Education 8, no. 2 (2020): 140–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.31862//2309-1428-2020-8-2-140-160.
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The article presents a theoretical justification of the pedagogical feasibility of implementing an individual and personal approach to children at the initial stage of learning choral singing and reveals its essence, pedagogical potential, and features of its use in music lessons. Three main pedagogical conditions necessary for its implementation are described: 1) the teacher’s knowledge of the features of children’s singing voices, the quality of their singing intonation, which must be taken into account when presenting certain singing tasks of varying complexity to the class; 2) the teacher’s knowledge of various ways of choral arrangement and processing of the song material that is supposed to be learned, focusing on the specific composition of the class choir; 3) the orientation of the educational process to the formation in each child a positive emotional and value attitude to their own voice and ideas about its expressive capabilities, ways of protection, the ability to observe its condition and development. Special attention is paid to the characteristics of pedagogical tools that can guide a music teacher-choirmaster in implementing an individual and personal approach to young singers who are just beginning to master the basics of choral singing.
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GOSS, GLENDA DAWN. "A Backdrop for Young Sibelius: The Intellectual Genesis of the Kullervo Symphony." 19th-Century Music 27, no. 1 (2003): 48–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncm.2003.27.1.48.
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Abstract . In April 1892 Jean Sibelius conducted the premiere of his Kullervo Symphony in Helsinki. As the young composer's first symphony and his only choral one and as his first setting of texts from the Finnish epic the Kalevala, Kullervo appeared to be a bolt from the blue. Closer examination, however, shows numerous forces at work, not only in Finland but also across Europe, that formed the essential backdrop to Sibelius's powerful, breakthrough composition. The author explores the literary, artistic, social, and political circumstances that provided the fertile soil from which the explosive Kullervo sprang.
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Ivec, Anja. "Glasbeno delovanje Heriberta Svetela v Ljubljani / Heribert Svetel’s Music Activities in Ljubljana." Glasbenopedagoški zbornik Akademije za glasbo ◆ The Journal of Music Education of the Academy of Music in Ljubljana 16, no. 33 (January 10, 2021): 131–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.26493/2712-3987.16(33)131-155.
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Composer, teacher, and conductor Heribert Svetel (1895−1962) lived and worked in Ljubljana in the first half of the 20th century. The article is mainly based on documents from family archives, owned by his granddaughter Marjeta Keršič Svetel, and provides an outline of his life with the major turning points, musical involvement in Choral Societies (Slavec, Sloga), and composition oeuvre in Ljubljana until 1946, when he left the capital and moved to Maribor.
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Popin, Marielle, and Melvin P. Unger. "The German Choral Church Compositions of David Heinichen (1683-1729)." Revue de musicologie 78, no. 1 (1992): 168. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/947250.
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Hentschel, Frank, and Gunter Kreutz. "The Perception of Musical Expression in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of the Glorifying Hymnic*." Music & Science 4 (January 1, 2021): 205920432110123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20592043211012396.
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Music conveys expressive meaning, and it elicits affective and associative responses in listeners. Historical documents from the 19th century contain reflections about the perceived expression of and affective responses to music in a wide range of works, including symphonies and operas. Therefore, we asked what verbal descriptors found in contemporary writings from the 19th century provide information about the perceived expressive qualities. Additionally, we examined whether the sources hint at situational / contextual factors. To this end, we investigated the descriptors used to describe the perception of a specific type of music, defined through a set of 16 features. We called this type of music “Glorifying Hymnic.” We searched a large amount of 19th-century symphonic music to identify as many excerpts displaying these features. Then, we investigated the description of the listening experience of the excerpts mainly using the RIPM (Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals) database. We found 47 compositions with 48 excerpts that matched our rather strict criteria and 102 textual sources that provided sufficiently concrete information regarding how several of the excerpts have been perceived. We found a very high degree of consistency in the description of the music: It has been described as glorious, powerful, triumphant and victorious, grand, joyous and happy, solemn, exciting, noble, tranquil and sometimes proud. It also elicited associations with singing, especially choral singing, and with religion. Only very few connections between music perception and situational factors were detected relating to religious associations and associations of the music with choral singing. They might refer to special circumstances in France and Germany respectively. We discuss our findings in the context of both historical perspectives and musicpsychological models.
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Forbes, Guy W. "The Repertoire Selection Practices of High School Choral Directors." Journal of Research in Music Education 49, no. 2 (July 2001): 102–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3345863.
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The purpose of this study was to research the repertoire selection practices of high school choral directors. The 104 directors who participated in the study were selected from two groups: (a) directors identified as outstanding and (b) directors selected from the remaining population. Interviews, a written survey, and solicited programs were used to collect the data. Results suggest that the repertoire selection practices used by directors are not structured. Although directors consider a wide variety of criteria to be influential in the selection process, criteria do not seem to be consistently or systematically applied. The relative influence of individual criteria varies depending on the style of repertoire under consideration. Furthermore, demographic characteristics such as teaching experience, program size, and the socioeconomic composition of the school may also influence repertoire selection practices. Although similarities among directors regarding the selection process were identified, there were differences between the selection practices of “outstanding” directors and directors not so identified with respect to the balance of repertoire that directors believe students should sing and the relative importance and use of selection criteria.
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Phillippo, Simon. "Symphonic Momentum and Post-tonal Dramas: Simpson's First Symphony." Tempo, no. 209 (July 1999): 2–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040298200014613.
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Robert Simpson died on 21 November 1997, leaving behind him an impressive body of works. At its core are 11 symphonies and 15 string quartets; also three concertos, two string quintets, sonatas, some choral music, even some much admired pieces for brass band. While a thoroughly individual, music-as-process modernism imbues all he wrote, the prevailing image of Simpson is that of the conservative classicist, clinging to the apparent certainties of antiquated forms and diatonic tonality – a view that begins to some extent with the composer himself. He is widely known for his influential writings on Beethoven, Nielsen, and Bruckner among others; writings that, along the way, fiercely and polemically extol the enduring virtues of symphonic composition, manifestly swimming against the tide of contemporary music of the mid-century. Simpson's symphonism was always ideologically opposed to the post-war trends towards total mechanization, as much as to the experiments with extreme irrationality and chance in the 1960s.
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Warnaby, John. "James Wood's ‘Stoicheia’ and ‘Oreion’." Tempo, no. 172 (March 1990): 20–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s004029820006109x.
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Although James Wood has been in the forefront of contemporary music as both choral conductor and percussionist, directing the New London Chamber Choir in many new works, and organizing the Darmstadt Summer School Percussion Course for several years, his own compositions have little in common with the mainstream of postwar European music. It might be assumed that his interest in ancient Greek rhythms, together with their Indian and Chinese equivalents, stems from his association with the music of Xenakis; but he has never shown any inclination to use complex mathematical formulae, and has probably been less concerned than almost any other contemporary composer with the organization of pitch.
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Chatterjee, Sebanti. "Performing Bollywood Broadway: Shillong Chamber Choir as Bollywood’s Other." Society and Culture in South Asia 6, no. 2 (July 2020): 304–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2393861720923812.
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This article attempts to explore the performativity that surrounds choral music in contemporary India. 1 1 Choral music was discovered in Western civilization and Christianity. As a starting point, it had the Gregorian reforms of the 6th century. Choir primarily refers to a vocal ensemble practising sacred music inside church settings as opposed to chorus which indicates vocal ensembles performing in secular environments. Multiple singers rendered sacred polyphony 1430 onwards. By the end of the century a standardized four-part range of three octaves or more became a feature. The vocal parts were called superius (later, soprano), altus, tenor (from its function of ‘holding’ the cantus-firmus) and bassus (Unger 2010, 2–3). Moving beyond its religious functions, the Shillong Chamber Choir locates itself within various sounds. Hailing from Meghalaya in the north- eastern part of India, the Shillong Chamber Choir has many folksy and original compositions in languages such as Khasi, Nagamese, Assamese and Malayalam. However, what brought them national fame was the Bollywoodisation 2 2 Bollywood refers to the South Asian film industry situated in Mumbai. The term also includes its film music and scores. of the choir. With its win in the reality TV Show, India’s Got Talent 3 3 India’s Got Talent is a reality TV series on Colors television network founded by Sakib Zakir Ahmed, part of Global British Got Talent franchise. in 2010, the Shillong Chamber Choir introduced two things to the Indian sound-scape—reproducing and inhabiting the Bollywood sound within a choral structure, and introducing to the Indian audience a medley of songs that could be termed ‘popular’, but which ultimately acquired a more eclectic framework. Medley is explored as a genre. The purpose of this article is to understand how ‘Bollywood Broadway’ is the mode through which choral renditions and more mainstream forms of entertainment are coming together.
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Sokolova, Alla. "FORMATION OF NATIONAL SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS OF FUTURE MUSIC ART TEACHERS IN «CHORAL CLASS»." 1 1, no. 1 (September 2020): 30–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.34142/27091805.2020.1.01.05.
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Object. The article addresses issues of educating future music teachers, the formation of their national worldview, in which professional knowledge and professional responsibility are formed, are of great importance. The leading role in this direction belongs to the discipline “Choral Class” and the widespread use of choral works written in poetry by Taras Shevchenko. Methods. Traditional historical and pedagogical research methods were used in the work: analytical, historical, and comparative, retrospective, comparative analysis of scientific and pedagogical literature, educational materials. Results. It was revealed that the literary works of Taras Shevchenko were interpreted in their choral works by such famous Ukrainian composers as M. Verbitsky, L. Dychko, M. Karminsky, A. Kos-Anatolsky, O. Kosits, M. Lysenko, S. Lyudkevich, L. Revutsky, K. Stetsenko, A. Shtogarenko and others. This is since choral music is precisely the spiritual center that for centuries has kept the “genetic code” of Ukrainian culture. The work of the great poet T. Shevchenko has not lost its relevance today. He is dear to us with a word that does not die and exalts the beauty of the Ukrainian nation, awakens the best human feelings, encourages friendship and creative cooperation around the world, teaches us to love Ukraine. Given this, a significant role in the national education of future music teachers is played by the development of choral works by Ukrainian composers based on poems by Taras Shevchenko in the classes of the “Choir Class”. Studying the works of A. Kos-Anatolsky, Y. Stepova, A. Shtogarenko and others, written in poems by T. Shevchenko, in the classes of the «Choir Clas»”, students can not only understand the social significance of the feelings of both the poet and composers, but also experience that or other artistic image. This contributes to the development of the personal emotional sphere of students, their spirituality, reflection. Conclusions. Mastering the above compositions teaches future music teachers how pure and honest, humane and truthful, hardworking and sociable, full of self-worth and respect for all who work, a real person should be. Taras Shevchenko’s сreativity, increased by the skill of Ukrainian composers, brings to young people the educational potential aimed at educating the national consciousness, educating patriotism of national dignity, spiritual enrichment of the individual.
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Gregory, Dianne. "Analysis of Listening Preferences of High School and College Musicians." Journal of Research in Music Education 42, no. 4 (December 1994): 331–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3345740.
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Undergraduate college music majors, high school musicians in performance groups, and sixth-grade students in eight sites across the United States listened to brief excerpts of music from early contemporary compositions, popular classics, selections in the Silver Burdett/Ginn elementary music education series, and current crossover jazz recordings. Each of the classical categories had a representative keyboard, band, choral, and orchestral excerpt. Self reports of knowledge and preference were recorded by the Continuous Response Digital Interface (CRDI) while subjects listened to excerpts. Instrumental biases were found among high school and college musicians' preferences for relatively unfamiliar classical music. College music majors' preferences, in general, were less “own-instrument-based” than were those of high school musicians. In addition, the results suggest training broadens receptivity within and across music genres. There seems, however, to be no predictable connection between the degree to which one “knows ” an excerpt and preference for the excerpt.
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De Prisco, Roberto, Delfina Malandrino, Donato Pirozzi, Gianluca Zaccagnino, and Rocco Zaccagnino. "Understanding the structure of musical compositions: Is visualization an effective approach?" Information Visualization 16, no. 2 (July 25, 2016): 139–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473871616655468.
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Experienced musicians have the ability to understand the structural elements of music compositions. Such an ability is built over time through the study of music theory, the understanding of rules that guide the composition of music, and countless hours of practice. The learning process is hard, especially for classical music, where the rigidity of the music structures and styles requires great effort to understand, assimilate, and then master the learned notions. In particular, we focused our attention on a specific type of music compositions, namely, music in chorale style (four-voice music). Composing such type of music is often perceived as a difficult task because of the rules the composer has to adhere to. In this article, we propose a visualization technique that can help people lacking a strong knowledge of music theory. The technique exploits graphic elements to draw the attention on the possible errors in the composition. We then developed an interactive system, named VisualMelody, that employs the proposed visualization technique to facilitate the understanding of the structure of music compositions. The aim is to allow people to make four-voice music composition in a quick and effective way, that is, avoiding errors, as dictated by classical music theory rules. We have involved 40 people in testing VisualMelody in order to analyze its effectiveness, its usability, and the overall user satisfaction. We partitioned the people involved in the evaluation study into two groups evenly splitting the musical expertise. Then, we had one group use VisualMelody without the visualization facilities and the other using the tool enhanced with our visualization. On average, people in the group that used our visualization were 60% faster and produced music with less errors.
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Vishio, Anton. "Leçons de Tenebrae: Brian Cherney, Paul Celan, and a Music of Witness." Intersections 37, no. 1 (May 17, 2019): 157–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1059893ar.
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In several compositions, Brian Cherney has reflected on the Holocaust and its impact, exploring how music can respond to such tragedy; his recent engagement with the poetry of Paul Celan is a natural extension of these preoccupations. This article offers a close reading of Cherney’s choral setting of Celan’s Tenebrae. The composer incorporates several additional texts that create a genealogy of the poem, from biblical passages to fragments of Dante and Hölderlin to accounts of the Holocaust itself; he arranges these texts to highlight semantic and sonic features of Celan’s work. Perhaps Cherney’s boldest move is his insertion of Hebrew letters, linking his composition to the long tradition of Lamentations settings—a link cemented by a quotation from Couperin’s Leçons de Ténèbres, which provides important motivic material. Through these additions, Cherney turns the poem towards us, inviting us to respond to its call for reflective witness.
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Wright, David. "Robert Saxton in the 1990s." Tempo, no. 215 (January 2001): 2–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040298200008184.
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The recent NMC recording of chamber music by Robert Saxton has broadened our knowledge of his oeuvre, complementing the perspective on his music that had been opened up by recordings of his orchestral works and the opera Caritas in the early 1990s. Certainly, the period 1990 to his fortieth birthday in 1993 represented a highpoint in terms of public recognition, but in recent years much of Saxton's composition has been in the more private sphere of chamber or solo music, or in the less prominent medium of choral writing, and it has received less sustained attention than its quality deserves. But while most composers are subject to fluctuations of interest, the not unalloyed distinction of being called a sucéss d'estime is a very real hazard of today's musical climate, especially for a composer who writes the sort of serious music that Saxton does; and from being frequently programmed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, his work currently seems to present less of a fashionable surface while continuing to be highly regarded by many serious commentators. But Saxton has made creative use of the 1990s as a time for thinking through the implications of his earlier music and reconsidering aspects of his style and approach to structure. This article looks at some of the music of almost the decade from Caritas (1991) to his current major project, The Legend of the Wandering Jew, an opera being conceived specifically for the medium of Radio. In the music of this period, Saxton has continued to demonstrate the ability to harness his wide intellectual interests to an essentially consistent compositional style and a single-minded artistic vision.
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Meyer-Kalkus, Reinhart. "The speech choir in central European theatres and literary-musical works in the first third of the 20th century." Muzikologija, no. 18 (2015): 159–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/muz1518159m.
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Speech choirs emerged as an offshoot of the choral gatherings of a wider youth musical and singing movement in the first half of the 20th century. The occasionally expressed opinion that choral speaking was cultivated primarily by the Hitler Youth and pressed into service on behalf of Nazi nationalist and racist propaganda is, historically, only partially accurate. The primary forces of choral speaking in Germany were, from 1919, the Social Democratic workers? and cultural movement and the Catholic youth groups, in addition to elementary and secondary schools. The popularity of speech choirs around 1930 was also echoed in the music of the time. Compositions for musical speech choirs were produced by composers like Heinz Thiessen, Arnold Sch?nberg, Ernst Toch, Carl Orff, Vladimir Vogel, Luigi Nono, Helmut Lachenmann and Wolfgang Rihm. Moving forward from the Sch?nberg School, the post-1945 new music thereby opens up the spectrum of vocal expressions of sound beyond that of the singing voice. It does so not only for solo voices but for the choir as well.
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Amuah, Joshua Alfred, and Hilarius Mawutor Wuaku. "Use of proverbs as communicative tool in Ghanaian choral music compositions." Legon Journal of the Humanities 30, no. 1 (November 11, 2019): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v30i1.6.
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Ryzhinskii, Aleksandr S. "The Cantatas by Pierre Boulez in the Context of the Main Trends in the Development of Choral Composition of the 20th Century." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 11, no. 1 (2021): 21–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2021.102.
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The article focuses on Pierre Boulez’s choral style in the cantatas “Le visage nuptial” and “Le soleil des eaux”. The versions of these works, created over the course of almost 40 years (from 1951 to 1989), represent a complex of techniques in regard to texture and timbre, which, on the one hand, are a continuation of experiments by composers of the New Vienna School (A. Schönberg, A. Webern), and on the other hand, they preface a number of innovations in the choral style of Boulez’s contemporaries (L. Nono, L. Berio, K. Stockhausen, I. Xenakis). Evidence is provided in favor of the idea that Boulez’s choral works were the logical link between the vocal and choral opuses of the composers of the first and second Western European avant-garde. The article examines the peculiarities of the interaction between the verbal and musical series, the specifics of the textural organization of Boulez’s works, and systematizes the information about the timbre techniques used. Links are identified between the heterophonic presentation typical of Boulez’s choral works and the use of quarter tone notation, glissando reception, and various variants of speech singing (Sprechgesang). The connections between stereophonic effects in the music of Boulez and Nono are traced. An important place is occupied by the study of vocal sound recovery or “vocal emission” technologies (as defined by Boulez). The significance of Schönberg and Webern’s experience in the formulation of the technical foundations of Boulez’s choral timbres is stressed. Special attention is paid to the problem of “work in progress” as one of the defining features of the composer’s choral heritage. Comparing the works by Nono, Maderna, and Bulez, the author concludes the different reasons for which composers came to the concept of “opera aperta” (U. Eco).
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Kuznetsova, Svetlana V. "Ancient Russian Musical Figurativeness in Georgy Sviridov’s cantata “The Bright Guest”." Observatory of Culture, no. 2 (April 28, 2014): 78–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2014-0-2-78-85.
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Analyses interrelation of literary and musical texts and reveals Ancient Russian musical figurativeness of music. The author studies melodic, harmonic, stylistic, genre and compositional treats of cantata and argues that all these treats were aimed at implementation of the Ancient Russian choral tradition.
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Kutlay, Evren. "A historical section from Ottoman- Serbian musical interactions: Stevan Mokranjac’s Istanbul concertsOsmanlı-Sırp müzik ilişkilerinden tarihsel bir kesit: Stevan Mokranjac’ın Dersaadet konserleri." International Journal of Human Sciences 13, no. 1 (January 7, 2016): 139. http://dx.doi.org/10.14687/ijhs.v13i1.3431.
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<p>Stevan Mokranjac, who is among the founders of Serbian national music, came with the Belgrade Choral Society to Ottoman lands to give a concert in 1895, during the reign of Sultan Abdulhamid II. Mokranjac’s visit is important both in terms of presenting the developments in Western music area in Ottoman Empire as well as showing the diplomatic interactions of the two countries in relation to music. In this concerts it is observed that the Western music performance and composition practices that the Ottomans initiated during 19. century were adopted by the Serbian musicians. Moreover, the constructional similarities and interactions in institutionalization of Western music in both countries takes attention.</p><p>This article aims to reveal the Ottoman-Serbian musical interaction, about which no specific research was not traced, in line with the composer, musician, conductor Stevan Mokranjac, who is not very well known in Turkish music history, and Belgrad Choral Society’s Istanbul visit through the support of historical documents obtained by archival research.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Özet</strong></p><p>Sırp ulusal müziğinin kurucularından Stevan Mokranjac, Belgrad Koro Topluluğu’yla birlikte 1895 yılında, Sultan II. Abdülhamid’in hükümdarlığı döneminde konser vermek üzere Osmanlı topraklarına gelmiştir. Mokranjac’in bu ziyareti hem Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Batı müziği alanındaki gelişmeleri gözler önüne sermek hem de iki ülke arasındaki diplomatik ilişkilerin müzik bağlamında etkileşimini göstermek bakımından önemlidir. Bu konserlerde Osmanlı’nın 19. yüzyılda temellerini attığı Batı müziği icra ve yaratı geleneklerinin Sırp müzisyenlerce adapte edildiği gözlemlenmiştir. Ayrıca iki ülkenin Batı müziği yapılanmasındaki kurumsal benzerlikler ve etkileşimler dikkat çekmektedir.</p><p>Bu makale, bugüne kadar hakkında hiç yayın tespit edilememiş Osmanlı-Sırp müzik ilişkilerini, yine Türk müzik tarihinde tanınmayan ve araştırılmamış besteci, müzisyen, şef Stevan Mokranjac’ın korosuyla İstanbul ziyareti düzleminde, konuyla ilgili tarihsel belgeleri arşiv çalışması ile ortaya koyarak gözler önüne sermeyi hedeflemektedir.</p>
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Greavu, Elena-Laura, and Roxana Pepelea. "Polyphony in the Choral Creation for Equal Voices Signed by Dan Voiculescu." Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Musica 66, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 143–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbmusica.2021.1.10.
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"This paper represents a more detailed research of one of the defining stylistic aspects for equal voices choral creation composed by Dan Voiculescu. The composer managed to enrich the children's repertoire with important works, starting from the premise that it must be close to the contemporary musical language. Polyphony, in its various forms, gives this type of repertoire stylistic unity and offers many possibilities for modernizing the choral language. Dan Voiculescu uses poliphony to exploit and materialize it in a multitude of compositional devices. The most used polyphonic process in Voiculescu's choral creation is imitative polyphony. It is materialized in various forms, being connected mainly by the tradition of its application from ancient times (Renaissance, Baroque) to the present day. Keywords: polyphony, Composer Dan Voiculescu, choral music. "
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Cherkasov, Volodymyr. "MUSICAL EDUCATION OF STUDENTS IN SCHOOLS OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND." Academic Notes Series Pedagogical Science 1, no. 195 (2021): 40–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.36550/2415-7988-2021-1-195-40-46.
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The article examines and summarizes the experience of music education of students in schools of the Republic of Ireland, highlights the main trends and approaches to the content of lessons and extracurricular activities with students of different ages, aesthetic education through music and the formation of European and national values. Vocal and vocal-instrumental ensembles are created. Participation in such groups requires knowledge of musical notation, mastering the technique of reading notes, mastering the skills and abilities to use the means of musical expression. In addition to rock music, one of the most popular vocal genres in Ireland is shan-nose - highly ornamented improvisational singing (ie singing with a large number of chants), where there are several parts of voices, from which the overall composition is built. Over time, Irish folk music changed. Most of the songs are of rural origin and are associated with ancient Irish language traditions. More modern songs are performed in both Irish and English. Involvement of student youth in the performance of various genres of choral and vocal music promotes patriotic education and the formation of moral and aesthetic qualities that positively affect the worldview of young people, contribute to the involvement of world cultural values. Involvement of student youth in the performance of various genres of choral and vocal music promotes patriotic education and the formation of moral and aesthetic qualities that positively affect the worldview of young people, contribute to the involvement of world cultural values. A prominent place in the organization of musical and creative activities is given to independent work. To this end, teachers develop guidelines, conduct practical classes, which focus on methods and techniques of mastering the skills of playing a particular musical instrument. Using the methods of showing, explaining, demonstrating, illustrating, repeating individual musical episodes and overcoming performance techniques, students develop technical skills, memory, logical thinking, practice performance skills and gain experience in interpreting the content of a piece of music. It should be noted that musical education of students in schools of the Republic of Ireland has a stable approach and is based on the folk traditions of previous generations, meets modern requirements for the formation of musical culture of youth, aesthetic feelings and development of intellectual and creative abilities.
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Prokopov, S. "J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel’s works performed by the choir of the Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts students." Problems of Interaction Between Arts, Pedagogy and the Theory and Practice of Education 52, no. 52 (October 3, 2019): 22–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum1-52.02.
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Background. In Ukraine both musicologists and performers (in particular the choirs conducted by well-known choirmasters) do much for the further development of the home Bach studies. For instance, the direction of the ‘choral bahhiana’ was actively developed by the leading choirmasters of that time professor M. Berdennikov (Kiev), Y. Kulik (Kharkiv) in the 60’s and 70’s. It is known that future students of the choral conducting departments first learn the choral heritage of J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel, as a rule, at the piano lessons at children musical schools and secondary schools. Unfortunately, their choral works aren’t often sounded today in the concert halls of musical academies and universities of arts. This music seemed to move from the concert stage to the classrooms. Analysis of publications according the topic. Among the researches that highlight the problems of the style of the sacred works of J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel, it is necessary to point out the fundamental studies of I. Givental and L. Gingold, M. Druskin, T. Livanova, V. Protopopov, A. Schweitzer, articles of modern authors by K. Berdennikova, N. Inutochkina, Y. Lyashenko, V. Semenuk, G. Skobtsova. However, the questions of the specifics of choral vocal technique remain, as a rule, outside the attention of scholars and they constitute the topic’s relevance of the article. Methods. The usage of the historical method contributed to the research of the educational choral performance at the present stage. It is involved structural-functional and intonational methods for establishing dramatic works’ features and concretization of their spiritual content. The comparative method is used to determine the differences between vocal style of J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel’s works and the technique of working with them. Objectives. The main goal is systematization of theoretical and practical observations with the performance of J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel’s choral works by the choir of the Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts students. The article is devoted to highlighting the problems of the performing process and the specifics of the choir practice of students with compositions by J. S. Bach (Cantata No. 140, ‘Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme’ and Magnificat) G. F. Handel (Dettingen Te Deum in D major, HWV 283). Results. The holding of the 22nd International Music Festival “Kharkiv Assemblies” devoted to the J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel’s oeuvre in 2015 was a significant event not only for Kharkiv but also the whole Ukraine’s musical life. The choir of the Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts students traditionally participated in it as in previous years (art director – Honored Art Worker of Ukraine, professor S. Prokopov, choirmasters – laureate of the all-Ukrainian competition H. Savelyeva, award winner of the all-Ukrainian competition O. Fartushka). The choir performed Magnificat and Cantata No. 140 by J. S. Bach ‘Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme’, fragments from the Dettingen Te Deum in D major, HWV 283 by G. F. Handel (the last two works are Kharkiv premieres). The work with them took place in short order and so it caused of some vocal technique difficulties and the problems of performative concept and performative style. Complaxities were intensified by the lack of necessary acoustic accumulation and the practical experience of performing the music of the Baroque by many young choirmasters, members of the choir group. The importance of studying the musical heritage of composers of genius in order to make a conductor-choirmaster personality is emphasized in the article. The main difficulties of learning choral scores due to the lack of performing experience, certain acoustic accumulation of choral music of the late baroque period which students of choral conducting specialization have. The approximation to the true understanding of the performing style of choral music by J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel may be provided with conditions of a thorough in-depth studying their works. The main tasks of the performative choices are described: appreciation of the entire depth of the spiritual content of J. S. Bach’s and G. F. Handel’s music by young performers, the correlation between vocal and instrumental principles, rational and emotional ones. One of the main tasks of the choir practice of students with J. S. Bach’s cantata No. 140 «Watchet auf, ruft uns die Stimme» was an adequate presentation of composer’s style. The composer treats the human voice as equal to the orchestra. Therefore, the vocal-instrumental nature of Bach’s choral style needs another way of sound-building, a greater unity of voices than our home choral music needs. They consider specific methods and techniques of work on such executive factors as tempo-rhythm, strokes. The questions of choral vocal technique, in particular, vocal intonation (significance of timbre expression, usage of different types of respiration, clear diction, active articulation) are raised. J. S. Bach’s interpretation of voice as an instrument, demands from performers a great deal of its mobility, almost virtuosity, especially in contrapuntal sections. As for the vocal style of G. F. Handel, the influence of the operatic style, which is felt in his oratorios and cantatas is emphasized. Conclusions. The choir practice of students and performing by the student choir of German composers’ genius works, the communication of young performers with outstanding conductors, singers (including foreign ones) became for them the true school of craftsmanship, promoted the professional growth of the choir group, revealed its new performance capabilities. Choral music of J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel should move from the educational audiences of universities and academies to the specific halls. The works of genius need to include in student choral groups’ repertoire.
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Elkoshi, Rivka. "When sounds, colors, and shapes meet: Investigating children’s audiovisual art in response to classical music." International Journal of Music Education 37, no. 4 (August 1, 2019): 576–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0255761419866084.
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This study was designed to investigate children’s audiovisual art, following intuitive listening to complete classical works from different historical periods. The study aimed to examine the effect of different musical stimuli on children’s audiovisual output. Two related questions were asked: (1) How do children visually and verbally represent music from different historical periods? (2) What musical and extra-musical elements are represented? Participants were 181 second graders (age 7.0–8.5). Three compositions were presented: a 12th-century anonymous choral from the liturgical drama “ Danielis Ludus,” Chopin’s prelude op. 28 no. 10, and Bartók’s “ Melody in the Mist” Vol. 4 no. 107, from “ Mikrokosmos.” Each composition is based on distinct musical parameters: vocal timbre, melodic contour, and texture alternations, respectively. Data consisted of 495 audio-graphic productions and related accounts. Analysis progressed in three stages abbreviated MSC: Morphological dimensions, focusing on type of symbols employed; Structural dimensions, focusing on the overall graphical design; and Conceptual dimensions focusing on the generic meanings of the productions. Results indicated significant differences in children’s reactions to each of the three compositions, showing that MSC dimensions are influenced by the type of music presented and that differences in MSC dimensions are statistically significant. Experiencing “audiovisuology” in school is one way of promoting art integration.
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Vasic, Aleksandar. "'The Music Herald' 1922: A esthetical and ideological aspects." Muzikologija, no. 9 (2009): 97–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/muz0909097v.
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The Music Herald was the first music magazine to appear in Belgrade after WWI. It was published monthly, for a year (January - December 1922). Its editor-in-chief was Petar Krstic, a composer. Other members of the editorial staff were Bozidar Joksimovic, Stevan Hristic, Kosta Manojlovic (composers) Vladimir R. Djordjevic (an ethnomusicologist) and Jovan Zorko (a violinist). Over 200 articles were published in the magazine. It dealt with different genres of music writings, such as articles, treatises, documents on the history of Serbian / Yugoslav music, music criticism, polemics, necrologies and bibliographies. Twenty-four compositions by native composers were published in the musical supplement of The Music Herald, among them the works of its editors as well as those of other Yugoslav musicians. The Music Herald dealt with three fields of interest: music historiography, ethnomusicology and the current topics of its epoch. When the magazine started, Serbian musicology was in its initial stage so the editors were trying to foster its development. They published numerous biographies of Serbian 19th century musicians, as well as documents on Serbian music culture during the reign of Prince Milos Obrenovic. Music folklore was also very often the subject of interest in the magazine. The Music Herald was interested in current topics and covered the Yugoslav music school system, opera houses, military music music associations, etc. It was especially interested in choral societies which in the course of the 19th century took up not only an artistic, but also a political and patriotic role in the liberation movement. After WWI choral societies entered a period of crisis. Their political raison d'?tre was lost, so they were faced with the challenge of achieving higher professional standards. This study deals with two aspects of 'The Music Herald': aesthetic and ideological aspects. In terms of ideology, the magazine was strongly in favor of the Yugoslav idea. Its correspondents (more then 40 of them) came from all parts of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, as well as from abroad (Poland). The music culture of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was treated with equal enthusiasm. The articles were published in both Cyrillic and Latin script, and in two languages (Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian). The editors of The Music Herald were also Slavophiles. They wrote about Czechoslovakian and Polish music, and also covered the works of Russian musicians who had emigrated to Yugoslavia after the October Revolution in 1917. The so-called 'national style' was fostered in The Music Herald, because it was believed by the editors to be the future of Serbian and Yugoslav music. Avant-garde music was treated with suspicion although on one occasion a defense of contemporary music by Stanislav Vinaver, a writer and a music critic, was published. On the other hand fostering the 'national style' did not mean that moderate means of expression sufficed for the positive evaluation of a certain music piece. That is why the compositions of Petar Stojanovic were judged as 'drawing-room music'. Although it lasted for just one year, The Music Herald has an important place in the history of Serbian music periodicals. Its orientation towards music historiography is, in this respect, especially important. It blazed the trail for the Serbian musicology in its dealings with unknown music data in the past.
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Ivanova, Yuliia. "Children’s choir in MarkKarminskyi’s creativity." Aspects of Historical Musicology 19, no. 19 (February 7, 2020): 29–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum2-19.02.
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Background. The article deals with the choral creativity by the famous Ukrainian composer Mark Karminskyi. The weight of M. Karminskyi’s choral works in the legacy of the composer and in choral art in general stimulates research interest in this area of his activity. However, there are relatively few scientific studies that examine the composer’s choral work; most of them are aimed at reconstructing his general creative portrait or at examining other pages of his heritage. The scientific novelty of this research is determined by the comprehensive coverage of children’s choral creativity by M. Karminskyi and the consideration of his unpublished choral works. The research methodology, synthesizing analytical and generalizing approaches, is based on the traditions of national musicology and is determined by the specifics of vocal and choral genres, first of all, by the inextricable link between musical drama and text. The purpose of the article is to recreate the most complete picture of M. Karminsky’s choral work for children and to determine its role in contemporary choral performing. The results of the research. The composer’s early works were distinguished by meaningfulness, optimism, brightness of musical images, which was embodied in easy, convenient and accessible tunes. Many Soviet-era songs created for children of different school age were included in the “Songs for Students” collections as a new program material for choral singing of Ukrainian secondary schools students in music lessons. Several works of the author became known throughout the country and published in the leading music publishers in Kiev and Moscow: “What Boys Are Made Of” (lyrics by R. Burns translated by S. Marshak), “Quicker to the Gathering” (by L. Galkin), “Balloons” (lyrics by Ya. Akim). The songs about Victory in the Second World War are popular: “Victory is celebrated by the people” (S. Orlova), “The soldier has forgotten nothing” (E. Berstein), “Red Poppies” (poems by G. Pozhenyan). The composer combines his songs into vocal-symphonic suites. One of the main genre of choral creativity of the author has become a miniature that is able to absorb a variety of musical expressive means to expand and deepen the content of the work in a small area of the form. The works by M. Karminskyi revealed such features of choral miniature as philosophicity, attentive attitude to the word, its emotional and semantic meaning, which is reflected in the detailed development of the thematic material. Most of the composer’s choral works are written for a cappella choir. The collections of “Choral Notebooks” (1988) and “Road to the Temple” (1995) have reflected the artist’s thoughts for several decades. The figurative content of “Choir Notebooks” includes the lyrical states caused by contemplation of pictures of nature; the collection “Road to the Temple” represents philosophical reflections not only of a personal nature, but also thoughts about the universal problems of today. The cycles reveal the principles of the composer’s thinking and are one of the pinnacles of his creative heritage. The article looks at one of the best works of the cycle “Road to the Temple”, the choir “Remembering Drobitsky Yar” (lyrics by E. Yevtushenko) for children’s choir, soloist (tenor) and piano. Also, the article deals with unpublished choral works by M. Karminskyi “Paraphrases on the Sonata of Mozart” and “Guitar” on F. G. Lorka’s poems. In the work “Guitar” on Lorca’s poem (translated by M. Tsvetayeva), the composer uses signs of Spanish color: imitation of techniques of playing the guitar, rhythmic copyism of the castanets playing and other. The poetic text “decorated” by flexible, broad, expressive melody that gives words greater emotion. The piece is full of sharp changes of genre signs of melodic structures (vocal without text, dance, austinous repetitions) revealing the semantic implication of the poem. The basis of the “Paraphrase on the theme of Mozart’s Sonatine” was the fourth part (Allegro) of Sonatina No. 1 in C Major from the Six Vienna Sonatas by W. A. Mozart. M. Karminskyi noticed the vocal nature of many parts of this cycle and skillfully made a “translation” of one of them for the children’s choir. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he wrote music that does not fundamentally claim to be innovative. As a true professional, he pays attention to the integrity of the compositions elaborating the smallest details. He strives for the laconism of expression and, at the same time, is able to saturate the choral texture with modern expressive means, if the artistic image of the work requires it. Natural expressive intonation, intonation as emotional content of vocal language distinguishes choral music by M. Karminskyi. A special role in intonation is played by breathing, it is inextricably linked with melodic movement and energy. The breath of the melodies of the author is enriched by the lively intonations of the language, which reveal her “soul”, give a feeling of warmth, strength, caress, greatness, truthfulness. Musical form of the composer’s works is determined by the intonation of the music. Based on linguistic-vocal intonations, most of the author’s works have strophic forms that follow from the semantic aspect of the literary text. Karminskyi is a master of choral unison. This mean of expressiveness, which is not often used by composers, in Karminsky’s works is a carrier of expressive melodism and suppose the performance with a great inner feeling. Features of declamation always find a place in his choirs, they reproduce the living human language, the spiritual experiences of a man. Conclusion. The works for the children’s choir have a special purity and cordiality that is so subtly perceived by children. Mark Karminsky’s music is capable of drawing children’s attention to musical values that purify the soul and nurture personality. His music makes you think and feel! M. Karminsky’s creativity has forever entered the concert practice of children’s choirs of Ukraine.
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Кривицкая, Евгения Давидовна. "Choral Works by Rodion Shchedrin. 21 Century." Музыкальная академия, no. 4(772) (December 21, 2020): 158–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.34690/119.
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Статья представляет собой обзор сочинений для хора a cappeLLa, созданных Родионом Щедриным в XXI веке. Произведения рассматриваются в хронологическом порядке, многие из них вдохновлены творческими контактами с Камерным хором Московской консерватории и с его руководителями - основателем коллектива Борисом Тевлиным и его преемником Александром Соловьёвым. Среди хоровых сочинений композитора есть и произведения на стихи российских поэтов - Андрея Вознесенского, Владимира Маяковского, Велимира Хлебникова, и опусы, написанные на библейские тексты, - «Эпиграф графа Толстого к роману “Анна Каренина”», «Месса поминовения»; последние можно отнести к области духовной музыки. Ряд сочинений отмечен гражданским пафосом (Диптих, «Два последних хора»). В партитурах 2020 года, созданных в период пандемии, в самоизоляции, автор размышляет о смысле бытия (Триптих). Щедрин постоянно экспериментирует с жанрами хоровой музыки. Ярким примером его изобретательности в творчестве последних лет являются Русские народные пословицы. В более ранней Серенаде (2003) традиционный жанр трактован новаторски: текст произведения целиком основан на междометиях. The article is a review of compositions for a cappella choir, written by Rodion Shchedrin in the 21 century. The works are viewed in chronological order, many of them are inspired by creative reLationships with the Chamber Choir of Moscow Conservatory and with its Leaders-the founder of the collective Boris TevLin and his successor Aleksandr Solovyov. Among the composer's choral works, there are music on verses by Russian poets-Andrei Voznesensky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, VeLimir Khlebnikov, and opuses written on bibLicaL texts-“Count ToLstoy's Epigraph to the NoveL ‘Anna Karenina'”, Mass of Commemoration; the Latters can be attributed to the fieLd of sacred music. A number of works are marked by civic pathos (Diptych, “The Last Two Choirs”). In the 2020 scores, created during the pandemic, in self-isolation, the author reflects on the meaning of being (Triptych). Shchedrin constantLy experiments with genres of choraL music. A striking exampLe of his ingenuity in the current oeuvre is the “Russian FoLk Proverbs”. In the earLier Serenade (2003), the traditionaL genre is interpreted in an innovative way: the text of the work is entireLy based on interjections.