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Ash Wednesday: New Horizons

Compozitor Cecilia McDowall
en Limba Engleză Sheet music – 8 iun 2018
for SATB and organWritten for the Choir of The Cathedral of St John, Albuquerque, Ash Wednesday sets typically fervent verses by Christina Rossetti. The vocal lines are mostly simple and affecting, with some highly individual harmonies, while the organ part is by turns expressive and showy.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780193524200
ISBN-10: 0193524201
Pagini: 16
Dimensiuni: 178 x 255 x 1 mm
Greutate: 0.04 kg
Ediția:Vocal score
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria New Horizons

Locul publicării:OXFORD, United Kingdom

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I am also very taken by Cecilia McDowall's Ash Wednesday . . . The musical language is of no great difficulty, and strong but economical structure is achieved by small musical cells which are allowed to grow through the piece. I am reminded of Herbert Howells's harmonic language in the more up-tempo central section. Here again the organist plays a major role in a piece suitable for any penitential occasion.
McDowall sets the poem [by Christina Rossetti] in a clear ternary form, with the outer sections establishing a quietly plaintive atmosphere . . . After an expansive exposition, the music shifts dramatically to an up-tempo forte section with agitated, restless organ figuration . . . The work ends quietly with an augmentation of the principal motives in both choir and organ. This haunting work is of only moderate difficulty and would infuse any Ash Wednesday liturgy with intense solemnity that is nonetheless striking in its beauty.

Notă biografică

Cecilia McDowall has been described by the International Record Review as having a 'communicative gift that is very rare in modern music. An award-winning composer, McDowall is often inspired by extra-musical influences, and her choral writing combines rhythmic vitality with expressive lyricism. Her music has been commissioned, performed, and recorded by leading choirs, among them the BBC Singers, The Sixteen, and Oxford and Cambridge choirs and is regularly programmed at prestigious festivals in Britain and abroad. In 2017 McDowall was selected for an Honorary Fellow award by the Royal School of Church Music.