“Song of the Holy Ground” for piano and string quartet was written in reaction to an Apache chant recorded in 1953 by musicologist John Donald Robb. The original recording, sung by a young girl, is clear, delicate and charming at first hearing. The text itself is unknown to me, beyond the fact that this is a song of consecration, a blessing. But the music of the chant is enchanting, with its uniquely expressive melodic shapes and its asymmetrical rhythms.In approaching this material I first made a detailed transcription of the chant and became fascinated with the intricacy of the motivic and rhythmic repetition which creates a simple, but unified musical format – basically A1A2A3A4/B1B2B3B4.My composition is a fantasy, an abstract...
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From the Very beginning of time, music has had an unusual emotional power, and probably because of t...
Symphonic Victimae Paschali Laudes is a work for full orchestra based on the Gregorian chant Victima...
Holy Land is an approximately 13 minute long three movement work fororchestra and choir. It is essen...
This thesis explores the musical expression of Christian transcendence in my folio of compositions. ...
The aim of my research for the PhD has been to explore the possibilities of sacred music composition...
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In my thesis An Attempt to Conceive the Role of the Sacred in Music. The Character and Application o...
Gregorian chant has always been presented in the Church documents as a model of liturgical singing. ...
The eleven fragments of this music can be performed as one or two solo works or as a duet. When perf...
Chanting occurs in the religious rituals of many cultures. In Buddhism it is primarily used as a mne...
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The Four Horsemen is an original composition in three movements that sets the texts of the Greetings...
This paper is dealing with Uvean dirges composed between 1956 and 1973. In this contemporary product...
Psalm 143 and Psalm 116, both for SATB choir, form a pair textually though they are unrelated music...
From the Very beginning of time, music has had an unusual emotional power, and probably because of t...
Symphonic Victimae Paschali Laudes is a work for full orchestra based on the Gregorian chant Victima...
Holy Land is an approximately 13 minute long three movement work fororchestra and choir. It is essen...
This thesis explores the musical expression of Christian transcendence in my folio of compositions. ...
The aim of my research for the PhD has been to explore the possibilities of sacred music composition...
The Unfaithful Bride is a piece of Western art music written with the intent of acclimating westerni...
Along the twentieth century has occurred the beginning of a fusion between two very different horizo...
In my thesis An Attempt to Conceive the Role of the Sacred in Music. The Character and Application o...
Gregorian chant has always been presented in the Church documents as a model of liturgical singing. ...
The eleven fragments of this music can be performed as one or two solo works or as a duet. When perf...
Chanting occurs in the religious rituals of many cultures. In Buddhism it is primarily used as a mne...
Inculturation of Church music in an experiment of creating this arrangement aims to bring a differen...
The Four Horsemen is an original composition in three movements that sets the texts of the Greetings...
This paper is dealing with Uvean dirges composed between 1956 and 1973. In this contemporary product...
Psalm 143 and Psalm 116, both for SATB choir, form a pair textually though they are unrelated music...
From the Very beginning of time, music has had an unusual emotional power, and probably because of t...
Symphonic Victimae Paschali Laudes is a work for full orchestra based on the Gregorian chant Victima...