A conductor's guide to twentieth-century choral-orchestral works in English
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Jonathan D. Green (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Richard Cox
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to survey large choral-orchestral works written between 1914 and 1972 containing some English text. Information was collected on eighty-one works regarding: composer, instrumentation, text sources, editions, availability of performing materials, performance issues, discography, and bibliographies of the composer and the work. Based upon score study, each work was evaluated in terms of performance concerns, rehearsal issues, and level of difficulty. When appropriate, levels of ensembles and programming circumstances were identified. Musical and textual trends, as observed in these works, have been compiled and assessed. These musical developments indicate that this repertoire has utilized the principal compositional techniques of the twentieth century, but more conservatively than in purely instrumental works of the same period. The trends in text selection have been to address social and moral issues and to assemble anthologies of thematically related texts. There has also been a marked inclination toward the poems of Walt Whitman in these works.
A conductor's guide to twentieth-century choral-orchestral works in English
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 1992
- Subjects
- Choruses with orchestra $y 20th century $v Bibliography