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Material Type: | Preschool, Videorecording |
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Document Type: | Visual material |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen Paulus; Dale Warland Singers.; Northfield Youth Choir.; American Choral Catalog, Ltd. |
ISBN: | 0964034417 9780964034419 |
OCLC Number: | 36059269 |
Notes: | Item number: EDUC 111. On case: "with the Dale Warland Singers. Brass quintet, guitar, flute & percussion and the Northfield Youth Choir." |
Performer(s): | The Dale Warland Singers ; Northfield Youth Choir. |
Description: | 1 videocassette (50 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. |
Contents: | Topics include: How the music is written to fit the text -- The creative choices a composer makes in melody, harmony & development -- How the composer draws out the emotion from poetry and music -- Rhythm and how it is more than the time signiture -- Why the composer's expression markings are critical to interpreting a score -- Word painting, making the music sound like what the words are saying -- How new music is being written in our time -- Why certain poems are selected and how the poetry motivates writing of the music -- More about the role of performer, from the composer's perspective. |
Other Titles: | On composing for chorus. |
Abstract:
Celebrated American composer, Stephen Paulus, explains how composers write music for the chorus.
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