Product Description
An SATB choral piece in three movements:
I. Tones
II. Sounds
III. Noise
Duration: Flexible
Note from Composer:
"I created this choral suite in the year 2014 with the
intention of creating a piece of music that would give a
large SATB choir, (that you would normally hear sticking
tightly to exact written music) a chance to improvise and
figure out how to best create spontaneous music and listen
to one another.
In the first movement, performers are encouraged to pick a
tone, any tone they would like, and stick to it, when
prompted with a note without a specific pitch. Dont be
afraid of dissonance. It
happens sometimes.
In the second movement, "Sounds," performers are encouraged
to push their own comfort boundaries. Dont be afraid to
challenge the meaning of what we call "music"... All the
better if you realize yourself that music can really be
anything.
In the third movement, "Noise," conductors are encouraged
to merely cue the note changes.
Let the performers come up
with their own switches from "ooh" to "oh" to "ah." It can
be fast, slow, rhythmic, anything theyd like. Give the
occasional measure number when cueing a note, to help avoid
losing place, as easy as that can be in a piece like this.
Dont worry about perfection.
The word "perfection" cannot
exist in this piece. I
created this with the idea that no
two performances will ever be the same. This gives you the
opportunity to create "you" in the form of music."
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