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Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance

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Song Of The Wind, Aaron B. Bittman May 2012

Song Of The Wind, Aaron B. Bittman

Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance

Song of the Wind is an original cantata for contralto soloist, chorus, and chamber orchestra. More similar to Carmina Burana than a cantata such as those written by J. S. Bach, musical influences were drawn from such diverse sources as Greek Orthodox chant, minimalism, and New Age popular music. The story of Song of the Wind is drawn from a number of different texts, mostly Eastern and Mid-Eastern in origin, but European texts are represented as well. These texts span a period of time between 3,000 years before the Common Era and the Renaissance, and also include newly written verse. …