| Comment: Re: Gesualdo Madrigal Question | Sig Rosen | May 5, 2012 |
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Interesting indeed!
Also of note they may find the work of Nicolo Vicentino who, a generation earlier, took the enharmonic genera sound world even farther in his Petrarch settings. Although available in CMM, no one recently has seen fit to make them widely available.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Bells, bells, bells | Sig Rosen | May 4, 2012 |
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http://www0.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Das_Geläut_zu_Speyer_(Ludwig_Senfl)
Here is a prime example of a unique genre.
Free download. Needs strong mens section.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Bells, bells, bells | Sig Rosen | May 3, 2012 |
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http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Das_Geläut_zu_Speyer_(Ludwig_Senfl)
Here is a prime example of a unique genre.
Free download. Needs strong mens section.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: New Women's Group forming - REP? | Sig Rosen | May 1, 2012 |
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Gerard Manly Hopkins poem:"no worst, there is none, pitched past pitch of grief...each day dies with sleep." was published in a profound 1940 setting for ssaaaa by the founder of The Renaissance Chorus, Harold Brown[1909-1979], by The Arrow Press,originally as "Choral Setting #1", later ava... |
| Comment: Re: Your favorite funny/amusing choral pieces for HS and adult voices? | Sig Rosen | April 21, 2012 |
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Please explore the genre of the ITALIAN MADRIGAL COMEDY c.1570-1630 by geniuses such as Vecchi, Banchieri etal.
Loaded with Commedia del arte schtiks, sophisticated word & sound play, and insight into the socialogy of the time..
sadly ignored.
HAVE FUN
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Men's pieces that feature low basses | Sig Rosen | April 15, 2012 |
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Much of the early Renaissance liturgical WAS for these combos. Originally TTTBB, Ockeghem's Intemerata dei Mater (in Plamanac) is an amazing Marian work. Not hard to find. We normally raise 4-5 for mixed.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Women's Choir -- repertoire on theme of Angels & Demons | Sig Rosen | March 29, 2012 |
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You are probably aware of Harold Brown's SSAAAA gloomy/serious 1940 JMHopkins setting":NO WORST THERE IS NONE PITCHED PAST PITCH OF GRIEF" -Mostly SSAA +short divisi. HB was born on Halloween-1909-.
You can hear some perf. at: www.renaissancechorus.org
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| Comment: Re: Elem. Madrigal Dinner | Sig Rosen | March 28, 2012 |
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Lots of great music around-
learning 'contropunto bestiale' from Banchieri's Festina could be very popular
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Folk music | Sig Rosen | March 22, 2012 |
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I personally would like to see this at a concert:
A folk singer, with or with out instrument- singing, in whatever language a ie ballad,
a traditional choral version of the same tune,
an 'arrangement' by a composer of the same,
an alternative cultural/cross national version of the s... |
| Comment: Re: Monday Motivation: Value of a Friend | Sig Rosen | March 19, 2012 |
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Brittany Luna Jordan wrote an SATB setting "Like Aged Wine" from friendship according to the [Wisdom of] SIRACH.On www.streetsingers.org =an encore to the 2012 Loft Concerts.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: SSA challenging repertoire | Sig Rosen | March 15, 2012 |
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No Worst There Is None Pitched Past Pitch of Grief(JMHopkins) ssaaaa by Harold Brown.
Listen & download PDF at : www.renaissancechorus.org
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Choral Master's programs in New York | Sig Rosen | March 15, 2012 |
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I had a friend at Columbia Teachers Music Ed. Check them out. Contact us when in NYC.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Humorous piece for Faculty Choir | Sig Rosen | March 13, 2012 |
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If your faculty likes to imbibe some than it might also like to be flattered by singing a "Papal drinking song":" Vivite foelices" for the (Giovanni de) Medici Leo X-1515. s/a.t.t.b. by Antoine Bruhier, ed. A.Dunning Chorwerk 120, 1977.
Drink Up!
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Baroque Literature | Sig Rosen | March 11, 2012 |
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Just adding to the greats mentioned: The Scarlatti's & Geminiani The early contemporaries of Schutz: Schein, Scheidt,Schroter,Demantius,Lechner. All wrote moving and accessible music.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Renaissance music arranged for women | Sig Rosen | March 7, 2012 |
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Our founder Harold Brown studied chant with Mother Stevens at Pope Pius X Institute for Liturgical music, and I once had her editions, viz: http://books.google.com/books/about/Mediaeval_and_renaissance_choral_music.html?id=hFIJAQAAMAAJ
These are perfectly suited.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Favorite Lassus pieces | Sig Rosen | March 6, 2012 |
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Yes about Musica Dei Donum, took us a bit, but well worth it!
Thanks for the other recommendations, not (yet ) in our Rep.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: piece about ice? | Sig Rosen | February 29, 2012 |
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In the same vein Weelkes "Thule the Period of Cosmograph" ,SSATTB ... "THESE THINGS SEEM WONDROUS, YET MORE WONDROUS I, WHOSE HEART WITH FEAR DOTH FREEZE, WITH LOVE DOTH FRY"
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Favorite Lassus pieces | Sig Rosen | February 29, 2012 |
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Yes to all the above plus this as a/the lesson about what music is FOR! :
Musica, Donum Dei Optimi SSATBB
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| Comment: Re: Repertoire Question | Sig Rosen | February 25, 2012 |
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I looked in MB IV Medieval Carols (Stevens) Index but didnt see the title. I also remember that verse but dont recall the source. A record?
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| Comment: Re: Renaissance -- Top Ten Greatest Hits | Sig Rosen | February 24, 2012 |
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I decided to, for those with FaceBook, set up a page for Nicola Vicentino c.1511-1572 to share the sources and comments.
Let me know if this is helpful. I note no one on CPDL has yet submitted or posted editions of NV.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Don't make me sing about Allah! | Sig Rosen | February 21, 2012 |
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El /Elohim = Allah Etmologically cognate, as are much of the Theology.
Conflicts one grants in the organizational aspects of worship, and the roles of the Empires utilizing same.
Seek concord and respect.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Don't make me sing about Allah! | Sig Rosen | February 20, 2012 |
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The culture wars are always goosed on by propaganda which separates peoples and defers discussion about real [economic/environmental] needs.
Keep the faith.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Renaissance -- Top Ten Greatest Hits | Sig Rosen | February 20, 2012 |
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Yes to all the above- one should always explore those highly original composers at the 'cusp' of new understandings who push forward. Such a composer was the great Nicolo Vicentino. Unfortunately his work, like some earlier 'musica reservata' were never 'hits' except to specialists, which I ho... |
| Comment: Re: Renaissance -- Top Ten Greatest Hits | Sig Rosen | February 17, 2012 |
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I never know how to list these requests. If one knows the performers & occasion its easier. Since an academic setting, it's expected that ones research will uncover/unhide obscure facts, but here we are talking i think about publishing history, and to a lesser ext... |
| Comment: Re: Tempo changes in Renaissance Masses | Sig Rosen | February 16, 2012 |
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Discussions about singing rightly discuss the physical -breath, musculature, jaw placement etc.
Do we not suppose there is a neuological/ emotional component to musical responses. Compatability in marital relationships might be akin to critical divergence.
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| Comment: Re: The most important Renaissance composers | Sig Rosen | January 27, 2012 |
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How to define 'significant'?
Not familiarity, nor popular appeal, which leaves progressive /pioneering/historical/artistic importance.
Think most will forward their own such lists based upon -predilictions and- like marriages- propinquity.
Suggest assigning a research based upon discovering ... |
| Comment: Re: So many choices with Spotify | Sig Rosen | January 23, 2012 |
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One can also utilize Dr Rob Wegner's Online Site: Renaissance Masses 1440-1520 to supplement such listings- midis, but 250+- to choose from in addition to musicological/reference materials. Spotify surely is also amazing, but not as comprehensive as when more share their own unique or esoteric int... |
| Comment: Re: Choral Albums you cannot live without | Sig Rosen | January 17, 2012 |
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Brumel missa Berzerette savoyenne-chanticleer
DesPrez missa una Musque de Buscaya-RCNY-Brown [oop-on website: www.renaissancechorus.org]
Monteverdi Madrigals-Nadia Boulanger
Senfl-Herr Durch dein Bluet/Pange Lingua/Fortuna- with M. Fortuna Desperata(DesPrez) Clerks-Wickham
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| Comment: Re: Looking for a madrigal | Sig Rosen | January 16, 2012 |
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And how many "Madrigal" groups/choirs/ do motets/masses or are primarily chamber choirs. Most madrigals were designed for single voices.
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| Comment: Re: It just kept ringing | Sig Rosen | January 16, 2012 |
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Those who cry throw him out dont get the point of the music.
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| Comment: Re: 5th graders with extreme, chronic hoarseness. advice? | Sig Rosen | January 12, 2012 |
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I wonder what the normal family communications are like?
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| Comment: Re: Advent music for Lessons and Carols | Sig Rosen | January 12, 2012 |
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No one mentioned Josquin desPrez: Praeter Rerum seriem (saatbb)- The Lassus Magnificat & deRore Mass based upon it.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Choral Caffeine: It's the People | Sig Rosen | January 5, 2012 |
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Thank You!
This is so apparent to those whose friendships (&marriages!) began in music ensembles. Our founder's centennial brought together students who carried with them life-changing concepts apparent in their own memoirs and scholarly & social pursuits.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: liability insurance | Sig Rosen | December 29, 2011 |
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This is good advice: we found a broker who turned out to be a choral singer. when she forwarded the application one of the questions was If we used pyrotechnics in our 'act'. I suppose your venues had not their own covering policy?
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Schubert's greatest choral work? | Sig Rosen | November 25, 2011 |
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Not in the same class but an effective synagogue/service work: Psalm 92 .[ Bar,SATB] The old edition has an inaccurate Hebrew transliteration.
Thanks for the question & answers.
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| Comment: Re: Publishing guide for choral music? | Sig Rosen | November 23, 2011 |
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And don't forget the example of the unique composer-singer ensemble C4, which promotes their own and contemporary (within 25 years) work exclusively. They have the chops to do it better than anyone else!
SIR
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| Comment: Re: soloist quandry | Sig Rosen | November 19, 2011 |
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A problem sometimes is present when under some grant environments, not normally at a church- one is forced to re-audition or make room for new members and thereby remove otherwise loyal singers.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Choral Music and Emotion | Sig Rosen | November 14, 2011 |
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Subjective indeed: G M Hopkins text "No worst there is none, Pitched past pitch of grief" in its several settings must move. Mr. Brown's for SSAAAA is ours.
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| Comment: Re: Little-published composers | Sig Rosen | October 25, 2011 |
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Although most of his music before 1500 was lost, and some destroyed in the Dresden bombings, Heinrich Finck c.1444/5-1527 was considered by Gustave Reese the first great German Composer. Little has been recorded! Mr. Brown edited & recorded the Missa `3, there is one of the 4 Part, and the 6,7... |
| Comment: Re: Looking for Multimetered Song for Choral recital | Sig Rosen | October 21, 2011 |
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A challanging work in all aspects is Busnoy's In Hydraulis, which praises/compares the skills of Ockeghem to the ancients, etc. It is available best in Richard Taruskin's Edition. Basically ATTB.
A study in prolations: We programed in one called "Music ABOUT Music & Musicians".
SIR
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| Comment: Re: HELP! Decent literature for SA ensemble | Sig Rosen | October 18, 2011 |
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If your group is mature and can do divisi, I always recommend the G M Hopkins setting "No Worst There is none, pitched past pitch of grief" by H Brown you can hear/download at: www.renaissancechorus.org
It is quite a challange.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Tube Amp Emulation While Recording A Choir | Sig Rosen | October 18, 2011 |
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Think specialized engineers using tube mics/preamps , often featured or advertised in Stereophile or Absolute Sound etc would know.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Favorite benedictions | Sig Rosen | October 16, 2011 |
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Perhaps setting of the Ite missa Est/Deo gracias- the ancient closers could be revived.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: "Virtual" CDA meetings | Sig Rosen | October 13, 2011 |
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This is a good question, the new means of effective communication & decision making are more suited to our world, although the old social aspect can't be discounted.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Copyrighting the Dead Sea Scrolls | Sig Rosen | October 2, 2011 |
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The whole story of the discovery, sale, scholarly access to, denial by certain scholars of same for decades, as well as the ongoing processing and interpretation of the texts, not to say the historical role in context of the Three thousand year+ history of the Jewish nation is riddled with fascina... |
| Comment: Re: Christmas Cantata | Sig Rosen | September 30, 2011 |
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Schutz :Christmas Story. Has been translated into English.Many opportunities for small ensembles/ ritornelli.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: looking for Scottish church music | Sig Rosen | September 30, 2011 |
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Musica Brittanica 15 (Elliott/Shire) 1975 Contains much great music. Recommend also, if Catholic music of the court was acceptable, (and you have proficiency) the works of Carver.
Much of that court was of course French Themed- and Mary's story in its many ramifications is a whole subject unto... |
| Comment: Re: Why ChoralNet is not "taking off" | Sig Rosen | September 16, 2011 |
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www,renaissancechorus.org
I've no suggestions, find the site stimulating, useful & sometimes challenging in finding a specific topic.
I thank you all.
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Measures in music - how can I tell students quickly? | Sig Rosen | September 13, 2011 |
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which is often the case in our ad hoc ensembles even with differing editions/transpositions. Reprinting our octavo with improved mensuration # or underlay is a godsend. Often our mss/academic sources have little of each as they assume too much ESP!
SIR
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| Comment: Re: Music for Woodwinds and Choir | Sig Rosen | September 12, 2011 |
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If your faculty & students winds ensemble desire a separate short 6-7 min charmer, I suggest this WW trio:
Two Experiments for Flute/Clarinet-A/Bassoon (1930) by our founder Harold Brown. Hear it at: www.renaissancechorus.org
contact me directly about parts.
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