Choral Monuments: Studies of Eleven Choral Masterworks
- Author: Shrock, Dennis
adequately informative yet provides paths for further research....This volume should be required reading for every student of choral music and aspiring or veteran conductor of choral masterworks.... — More…
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Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE
- Josquin Desprez - Missa Pange Lingua
- Biographical and Compositional Overview
- Salient Compositional Characteristics
- Imitation
- Ostinatos
- The Missa Pange lingua
- Structure and Parody Technique
- Performance Practice Considerations
- Performing Forces
- Meter, Tactus, and Tempo
- Text Underlay
- Musica Ficta and Musica Recta
- Summary
- Selected Bibliography
- CHAPTER TWO
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Missa Papae Marcelli
- Biographical and Compositional Overview
- The Papacy and the Counter-Reformation
- The Missa Papae Marcelli
- Musical Characteristics
- Legacy
- Performance Practice Considerations
- Pitch and Performing Forces
- Meter and Tactus
- Oratorical Phrasing
- Tempo
- Musica Ficta
- Summary
- Selected Bibliography
- CHAPTER THREE
- Johann Sebastian Bach - B Minor Mass
- Biographical and Compositional Overview
- Bach's Lutheran Masses
- Parody Technique
- The B Minor Mass
- Parodies
- Compositional Rationale
- Manuscripts, Editions, and Performances
- Formal and Musical Structures
- Kyrie
- Gloria
- Credo
- Sanctus
- Agnus Dei
- Summary
- Performance Practice Considerations
- Performing Forces
- Meter and Tempo
- Rhythmic Alteration
- Ornamentation
- Summary
- Selected Bibliography
- CHAPTER FOUR
- George Frideric Handel - Messiah
- Genesis and Historical Perspective
- Handel's Compositional Process
- Speed of Writing, Parody Technique, and Revision of Works
- The Libretto of Messiah
- Formal and Musical Structures
- Instrumental Movements
- Recitatives
- Solo Vocal Movements
- Choruses
- Performance Practice Considerations
- Performing Forces and Stage Setup
- Volume, Timbre, Pitch, and Vibrato
- Metric Accentuation
- Rhythmic Alteration
- Recitative
- Ornamentation
- Summary
- Selected Bibliography
- CHAPTER FIVE
- Joseph Haydn - The Creation
- Introduction
- Genesis and Historical Perspective
- The Text of The Creation
- Musical Expression
- Formal and Musical Structures
- Performance Practice Considerations
- Editions
- Performing Forces and Stage Setup
- Meter and Tempo
- Metric Accentuation
- Recitative
- Ornamentation
- Summary
- Selected Bibliography
- CHAPTER SIX
- Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony #9
- Introduction
- Genesis and Historical Perspective
- Schiller's An die Freude
- Formal and Musical Structures
- Expression
- Performance Practice Considerations
- Tempo
- Metric Accentuation
- Orchestration
- Stage Setup
- Selected Bibliography
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- Felix Mendelssohn - St. Paul
- Genesis and Historical Perspective
- Reception of St. Paul
- Compositional Historicism
- The Text of St. Paul
- Formal and Musical Structures
- Recitatives
- Turba Choruses
- Arias
- Choruses
- Performance Practice Considerations
- Introduction
- Performance in German or English
- Performing Forces and Stage Setup
- Fermatas
- Recitatives
- Recommendations
- Selected Bibliography
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- Johannes Brahms - Ein deutsches Requiem
- Genesis and Historical Perspective
- Reception of the Requiem
- Texts Set by Brahms Related to Those of the Requiem
- The Texts Brahms Chose for the Requiem
- Musical and Formal Structures
- Performance Practice Considerations
- Instrumentation, Timbre, and Vibrato
- Metric Accentuation
- Stage Setup
- Tempo Fluctuation
- Selected Bibliography
- CHAPTER NINE
- Giuseppe Verdi - Messa da Requiem
- Introduction
- Genesis and Historical Perspective
- The Text of the Requiem
- Formal and Musical Structures
- Structures Exhibited in Scoring
- Structures of Individual Movements
- Structures Related to Melodic Design
- Performance Practice Considerations
- Rhythm and Expressive Markings
- Tempo
- Performing Forces and Stage Setup
- Summary
- Selected Bibliography
- CHAPTER TEN
- Igor Stravinsky - Mass
- Genesis and Historical Perspective
- Masses Based on Historic Models
- The Nineteenth Century
- The Twentieth Century
- Stravinsky and Musical Styles of the Past
- Oedipus rex and Babel
- Symphony of Psalms and Canticum sacrum
- Mass and Cantata
- Formal and Musical Structures of the Mass
- Kyrie and Agnus Dei
- Gloria and Sanctus
- Credo
- Summary
- Performance Practice Considerations
- Text Setting
- Performing Forces and Stage Setup
- Summary
- Selected Bibliography
- CHAPTER ELEVEN
- Benjamin Britten - War Requiem
- Introduction
- Genesis and Historical Perspective
- Wilfred Owen and his Poetry in the War Requiem
- Musical Symbolism
- Structural Symbolism
- Movement 1 - Requiem Aeternam
- Movement 2 - Dies Irae
- Movement 3 - Offertorium
- Movement 6 - Libera Me
- Supplementary Structures
- Performance Practice Considerations
- Performing Forces
- Stage Setup
- Nationalities of the Vocal Soloists and Their Vocal Timbres
- Acoustics
- Addendum
- Selected Bibliography
- Appendix
- Score Data