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Let's talk choral music.
pwhodges:
Next concert, the very, very last on the theme of Royal Jubilees, Coronations and such for a while, I expect!
Orb and Sceptre - Coronation music from Purcell to Walton
Redball:
Paul, I thought immediately of your recordings when I saw this.
I was able to reproduce the four-speaker setup using a cheap theater system at my condo in AZ earlier in the year, but I haven't been able to figure it out in Michigan yet.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Redball on 19 Sep 2013, 21:12 ---Paul, I thought immediately of your recordings when I saw this.
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--- Quote from: New York Times ---The core [...] is a motet, “Spem in Alium,” [...] Its transformation into the “Forty Part Motet”
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The writer of the article seems to be unaware that Tallis himself wrote the motet in forty parts.
Redball:
You're right, although I hadn't paid attention. I read a little more to learn that it was apparently written as 5 x SSAATTBB. I suppose if I read a little more, I might get a glimpse of the choral score.
The only time I've sung something approaching that multiple chorus was Schoenberg's Gurre Lieder, where three male TTBB choruses are singing. The women don't join until the very end, in a dramatic eight-part chorus.
I'm expecting to be in the NYC area at Thanksgiving, and I may try to hear the motet.
In my 35-voice a cappella group, we perform facing an audience. But my favorite rehearsals are those where we sing standing in a square or circle, usually mixed. Facing each other must be one of the joys of singing in many chancel choirs.
94ssd:
People in the audience cried after watching this epicness
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD3VsesSBsw
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