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An Analysis And Conductor’S Guide To Zdeněk Lukáš’ Requiem Per Coro Misto, Op. 252, Samuel James Miller
An Analysis And Conductor’S Guide To Zdeněk Lukáš’ Requiem Per Coro Misto, Op. 252, Samuel James Miller
Theses and Dissertations--Music
Zdeněk Lukáš (1928-2007) was one of the most prolific Czech composers of the 20th century having composed over 300 pieces. His works include a wide array of genres including symphonies, operas, chamber music, and a large amount of choral and vocal music. He was influenced by Czech folklore and music and was self-taught until he was nearly 40 years old. Lukáš began his career as a teacher but later began working for the Czechoslovak Radio Studio in Plzeň where he founded the mixed choir, Česká Píseň (Czech Song), which became quite famous and still enjoys great fame.
Requiem per coro …
A Choral Conductor’S Approach To Christopher Theofanidis’S The Here And Now, Regan Arlene Macnay
A Choral Conductor’S Approach To Christopher Theofanidis’S The Here And Now, Regan Arlene Macnay
Theses and Dissertations--Music
American composer Christopher Theofanidis’s choral-orchestral work The Here and Now (2005) is a setting of Jalal ad-Din Rumi’s thirteenth-century poetry as translated by Coleman Barks. Theofanidis employs a cappella sonic contrasts, silence, rhythmic text setting, and a libretto based on fragments of Rumi’s poems to tell a story about the search for love, longing, joy, and gratitude. While rooted in traditional Western composition methods, this twenty-first-century work uses musical elements like color chords (bichords), cluster chords, changing meters, and modality, as well as imitative polyphony and unifying motifs within a new, tonal American aesthetic espoused by the Atlanta School of …
A Conductor’S Analysis Of Veljo Tormis’ Looduspildid, John David Frizzell
A Conductor’S Analysis Of Veljo Tormis’ Looduspildid, John David Frizzell
Theses and Dissertations--Music
Estonian composer Veljo Tormis (1930-2017) is one of the most prolific in his country’s history. A significant portion of his writing has been for choirs. Tormis composed most of his works under Soviet rule. During this communist reign of Estonia, Tormis turned to using traditional music. The source material for a large portion of Tormis’ choral output is regilaul, a type of ancient Estonian folk song. In 1991, Estonia gained their independence, thereby allowing Tormis’ compositions to be more easily seen, heard, and performed around the world.
This dissertation presents a conductor’s analysis of a set of choral cycles …