A Selective Guide of Canadian Choral Compositions Appropriate for
... teachers are unfamiliar with the contemporary music scene and require special training In this area. Recommendations resulting from this report Included suggestions that: 1) the music publishing Industry In Canada should be encouraged to provide music teachers with additional Canadian music Instruct ...
... teachers are unfamiliar with the contemporary music scene and require special training In this area. Recommendations resulting from this report Included suggestions that: 1) the music publishing Industry In Canada should be encouraged to provide music teachers with additional Canadian music Instruct ...
The Renaissance
... scales our ears are used to today. The melodies are free and seem to wander, dictated by the Latin liturgical texts to which they are set. As these chants spread throughout Europe, they were embellished and developed along many different lines in various regions. It was believed that Pope Gregory I ...
... scales our ears are used to today. The melodies are free and seem to wander, dictated by the Latin liturgical texts to which they are set. As these chants spread throughout Europe, they were embellished and developed along many different lines in various regions. It was believed that Pope Gregory I ...
Renaissance Period (1450 – 1600)
... explosion in Italian poetry. Madrigals were published by the thousands in sixteenth-century Italy, where they were sung by cultivated aristocrats. Among the many Italian madrigalists were Luca Marenzio (1553-1599) and Carlo Gesualdo (about 1560-1613), the infamous prince of Venosa who had his wife a ...
... explosion in Italian poetry. Madrigals were published by the thousands in sixteenth-century Italy, where they were sung by cultivated aristocrats. Among the many Italian madrigalists were Luca Marenzio (1553-1599) and Carlo Gesualdo (about 1560-1613), the infamous prince of Venosa who had his wife a ...
program notes - Aston Magna Music Festival
... their musical equivalents. Often this meant that the composer invented (or borrowed from someone else who had already done so) a musical gesture that might look on the page like the intended idea: “mountain” (a melodic rise followed by a descent), “river” (undulating lines), “high” or “sky” (high-pi ...
... their musical equivalents. Often this meant that the composer invented (or borrowed from someone else who had already done so) a musical gesture that might look on the page like the intended idea: “mountain” (a melodic rise followed by a descent), “river” (undulating lines), “high” or “sky” (high-pi ...
Choir
A choir (/ˈkwaɪ.ər/) (also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus. The former term is very often applied to groups affiliated with a church (whether or not they actually occupy the choir) and the second to groups that perform in theatres or concert halls, but this distinction is far from rigid.The term ""Choir"" has the secondary definition of a subset of an ensemble; thus one speaks of the ""woodwind choir"" of an orchestra, or different ""choirs"" of voices and/or instruments in a polychoral composition. In typical 18th- to 21st-century oratorios and masses, chorus or choir is usually understood to imply more than one singer per part, in contrast to the quartet of soloists also featured in these works.