Graduate recital in choral conducting

Includes recorded audio files in WAV and MP3 formats, 50:66 in lengthPaul peuerl, also known as Beurlin, was an organ builder, organist and composer from the Austrian section known as Styria. O Musica comes from a book of songs for five voices dating from 1613. It???s joyous nature is in praise of music. Cease Sorrows now is the best known of weelkes??? three-voice madrigals from his first collection of music, Madrigals to 3, 4, 4 and 6 voices (1597). No English composer had ever tried anything as radical as the pathos and chromaticism of this piece. O stay sweet love is from farmer???s First set of Madrigals for 4 Voices (1599). Within this delightful music can be found many fine examples expressive word-painting. The Magnificat, Mary???s poetic response to the salutation of Elizabeth (luke 1: 46-55), is a traditional part of the regular vespers service of the catholic church. From the mid-seventeenth century, composers divided texts such as the Magnificat into short manageable sections of about a verse or a phrase at a time. These were set in a contrasted series and in such a way as to highlight some aspect of the text and its significance in either Biblical or Liturgical contexts. In this version of Vivaldi???s the text divided into nine sections. Rossini, during the last forty years of his life, wrote a group of charming pieces collectively called ???sins of my old age ???, from which comes La Passegiata. These miniatures, which have been virtually unknown until recently, are full of satire and humor, and pre-figure the celebrated miniatures of Eric Satie. Sehnsucht is one of the six quartets of Opus 112 written from 1888-1891. This composition reveals Brahms??? expert skill at choral writing and shows his ability to combine the voices with an equally challenging and beautiful piano accompaniment. The invention of the ???spoken chorus??? genre in 1930 proved one of Toch???s most influential contributions to modern music. In Valse, written in 1961, Toch rearranged the Cliches of cocktail party banter into strict ?? times. Tangents V is one of a series of pieces intended to explore the tangential nature of electronic and acoustical sound. It is firmly based in sound mass principle and is free of text implications. A subtitle of this work, IXOHOXI, is of course, meaningless: however, it is an interesting word because of the inverted mirror quality and it suggested a loose arch form to the composer. Among established composers of serious music in this country, Dell Joio is outstanding for an outgoing directness of expression and a simplicity of manner which have an intentionally broad appeal. A strong melodic vein, rhythmic vitality, a relatively restrained harmonic vocabulary, and a freshness of invention are among the traits of his style. A Jubilant song was written in 1946 and is set to words adapted from walt Whitman. It invites us to celebrate life through ???a universal love??? MUSIC