Download MUSIC LITERACY FACT SHEET

MUSIC LITERACY FACT SHEET
TITLE 1. “Let Thy Holy Spirit”
2. “Duh Tvoy Blagiy”
3. Originally in Russian – translated in English
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------STYLE PERIOD/GENRE
1. Contemporary, 20th Century
2. Russian Nationalistic
3. choral sacred music
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------COMPOSER/ARRANGER/EDITOR
1. Pavel Tschesnokoff (1877–1944)
2. edited by Rod Walker
3. Tschesnokoff also spelled, Chesnokov
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------COMPOSER INFO
1.With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, there was a resurgence of music,
particularly of choral groups, in the Russian Orthodox Church, and many
congregations favored familiar compositions from the pre-Revolutionary years,
such as “Salvation is Created,” Tschesnokoff’s most famous hymn. The text of the
hymn is as follows:
2. A leading composer of Russian church music until the formation of the
Soviet Union in 1917, at which point all composition of sacred music in Russia
came to a halt. Tschesnokoff’s music was not performed publicly again until 1991
(the end of the cold war, Boris Yeltsin elected president in its first ever direct
elections), long after his death.
3. Pavel Tschesnokoff wrote over 500 choral works, 400+ of which are
sacred, fed by his experience as a teacher of singing at Moscow Synodal Schook,
precentor in several Moscow churches, and from 1920-1944, professor of choral
music at Moscow Conservatory.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TEXT 1. Let Thy Holy Spirit come upon us on earth,
Alleluia, Alleluia!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SOUND
1. a cappella
2. choral music
3. joyful, but in minor ??? or major??? ends on an open 5th chord
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------HARMONY
1. Voice doubling
2. Homophonic
3. shifts from minor to Major – ending on neither…
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MELODY
1. short phrases
2. B section – melody imitative
3. mostly stepwise
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------RHYTHM
1. chordal rhythmic structure
2. simple, fits with the text
3. echoing patterns exist between the mens and womens parts
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------GROWTH/FORM
1. ABA/coda
2. Rounded binary form (two contrasting sections with the first part repeated (rounded)
3. A coda = a closing passage generally added to the end of a composition. A coda’s
function is generally to provide a strong conclusion to the work, giving the piece a grander sense
of finality.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TIME SIGNATURE
1. 4/4 time signature
2. four beats per measure, quarter note equals one beat.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------KEY SIGNATURE
1. B minor
2. 2 #’s – (sharps) in the key signature
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