Hodie The Choir Sounds

The music was also very rhythmic and repetitive. Also the music changed in between its artistic style of staccato and legato. While onstage they looked and sounded very enthousiastic and happy to be performing for us, which is a good quality to have in any performance. The group as a whole changed between the dynamics of forte and mezzo piano very well along with staying with the tempo presented with the song. Their particular intonation was well connected at times, but loosely connected at others (usually at times of a more conversational tone.) Being that there were younger kids with less mature voices greatly affected the group’s overall blend and with that the group could not sound as superb as it could have been. There were also signs of a dominant female voice that affected the blend as well. But as a group, they sounded well practiced and well comfortable with their pitches. As far as articulation, some male voices were harder to hear which is due to inadequate vowel shape, not emphasizing the ending letter of a word, and not rounding the mouth to get a mature

The text in this song is absolutely perfect, since it was taken from a poem. The melody is beautiful and the harmony that goes along with it is amazing as well. The melody is the soprano solo part, sometimes the second sopranos, often it’s the upper sopranos, and whenever the choir sings together. The melody includes many high notes. The soloist that would be the perfect choice for this role would be a soprano. The harmony matches up perfectly with the higher notes in this song. The parts of this song who have the harmony are the altos. The altos in this song were flat very often in this song, and to fix that, they

The first song, Kyrie, I have actually heard before because one of the choirs in my high school sang it for one of there songs. The song has a very nice flow to it and seems like a song that is sung in a church somewhere. I looked up what the word Kyrie means and found from dictionary.com that it means, “Lord, have mercy”.(SDFAS) The second song ,Gloria, was also a very smooth flowing song. With all of the different parts in it, it makes it sound very good. Palestrina did very well on both of the pieces.

3. What do you notice about the people in this poem? They are all singing as they work.

In my opinion, that is the reason why we listened to this piece of music. To try and be exposed to a work that has a large supply of instruments and a choir at the same time. From listening to it, they did a very good job of incorporating the choir with the music. The choir was also very synchronized as well. They did not get too high or too low as a group. One of the differences with this piece of music is they incorporate different types of music and the choir sings from the very beginning. One thing that was very enjoyable was how strong and powerful the choir sang at the end of the piece. Once, again, the most difficult thing about listening to this piece was the lack of understanding any of the

During a later part of Scene Two when the cast is dancing the movements match the music, they appeared to be doing the Waltz, so the music had abrupt changes. In Scene Three: Cadiz, the orchestra plays some sad and somber music at the beginning. As the scene progresses the music goes from dark and dismal to happy and cheerful. During one of the songs of Scene Four: Paris the Old Lady, Cunegonde and Candide were discussing a flight and the music being played by the orchestra matched the lyrics bringing the idea of a flight to life. The Old Lady has a mezzo soprano voice she executes all of her notes well in the song. At the end of scene three Candide, Cunegonde, and the Old Lady leave to go to a new place and in the song they sing there are rounds, which were well executed. It helped change the mood again which brightened up the audience.

Much of the song has no end line punctuations, and each sentence flows into the next. Along with that we get a sense of imagery from the lines of the poem. The narrator explains what the characters are seeing in way that depicts a certain image in the audience’s minds. I find that though the techniques used are adequate they are not completely effective. Rather, I think that it is the form it takes on that gives it the substance and power it needs.

This, along with a large amount of enjambment makes the poem flow easily. It seems like it is a few longs lines, rather than five stanzas! When you read the poem aloud the sound makes you think of waves in the sea, going back and forth. In the first stanza, there is a lot of sibilance – repeating of the sound “s”. This sounds a lot like the waves.

The instruments behind the voice are violins and a piano. When the violins start playing, it makes the atmosphere feel comfortable and quiet. The overall vibe of the song is nothing like the original version or the other covers that artists have made of “Hallelujah.” Unlike the original version, it does not bring a negative feeling. The vocals in her song are clear and coherent which promote the way the song sounds.

I feel that the fourteen members of chamber orchestra and the two vocalists did an outstanding job. This piece was well put together. I loved the harmony that was brought forth between the orchestra and the vocalists. The two vocalists a tenor known as Paul Groves and a soprano known as Anna Larson, did a beautiful job staying in tune. The way that their voices went back and forth in harmony was just beautiful.

Eric Whitacre incorporates many musical elements into his music. People say his choral music has harmonic flamboyance, amazing dissonance and crushing harmonic relationships and this is why many people that sing in choir loves his music (Larson). His first choral composition “Go Lovely Rose” incorporates many musical elements. When I first listened to this song, I was shocked by how amazing it sounded, this is a very beautiful choral piece. The song is an acapella piece and he uses very rich harmonies that switch from being consonant and dissonant. There are also parts of the song when they sing in unison. One big element that he uses in this song is imitative polyphony. At the part of the song when the choir sings “Then died that she “,the soprano comes in then the alto then the tenor then the bass and there are also other parts of this song where that occurs. He also used a lot of dynamic contrast in this song. There were parts of the song where they would crescendo and decrescendo and this would shape the phrases. The song utilized soft dynamics like pianissimo and loud dynamics like

As the lights rose I could automatically hear a four four beat with accents of one , two and three as the drums where struck with a intense meaning as the bass came in I could fell it straight to the chest as the base guitar was strummed. As these two sounds joined together it gave a sense of a grand entrance or a grand presentation. The Procession was the strongest as it always in the church setting and the Piano as usual played a main part because it is the base of all instruments. As the singers approached the stage singing the opening song you could here the difference in styles in their voices but, there harmonies where so tight and together their strong differences made them a stronger ensemble. Together was just breathe taking, they

The speaker tells the poem in a faster pace that would usually be used during spoken word. There were breaks through the lines of the poem but did not last long. At the end of the lines and paid close attention to the words being used you would be able to notice that the words rhyme. I think what was very effective through this poem was that he got the audience interacting with it as they clapped. The speaker of the poem takes breaths to break up the poem instead of pausing it was really well done and I enjoyed listening to this poem the most so far.

The first half of the concert was only instrumental. There were two violins, two violas, and two cellos. They sat on stage with the violins one my right, then the violas in the middle, and the cellos on the end. The violins played a few songs solo. The second half of the concert was only the choir and a piano. Their performance started with the song Daybreak. The song Daybreak also had a few girls playing percussion, one of them had a tambourine. Using SHMRG, the Harmony of most of the choirs songs were very homophonic. The Melody of most of the songs were mainly slow, though a couple songs were very fast, and upbeat.

Tallis composed "Spem in Allium" which was one of his greatest song of all time. This particular song has 40 different parts which is made for 8 choirs with 5 different pitches. I am not sure if this song is appealing to me because it has a very annoying sound. The sopranos are the domain voice since you can not hear the altos in this song. The sopranos remind me of a Hawaiian singer since the hook descends from high to low. I would perceive the imagery as the choir in the church while the sopranos are the main focus. The altos levels the harmony which has a repetitive rhythm. The song has a dreadful effect on the audience since the sopranos utilize the mood of the