This term we are going to listen to music that uses the human voice. I have divided the works on offer into pairs according to the forces they use: chorus and orchestra – the Monteverdi and Bach Magnificats; solo voice, chorus and orchestra – Kodály’s Psalmus Hungaricus and Bernsteins’s Chichester Psalms; solo voice and orchestra – Britten’s Serenade and Ravel’s Shéhérazade; and, finally, solo voice and piano – Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad and Schubert’s Schwanengesang.
To start with, since word setting is an important part of writing for voice, we'll examine one of the two settings of English language poetry: Britten’s Serenade for tenor, horn and strings.
To start with, since word setting is an important part of writing for voice, we'll examine one of the two settings of English language poetry: Britten’s Serenade for tenor, horn and strings.
Samuel Palmer’s Harvest Moon which appeared on the cover of the original edition of the Serenade
and here's (a rather small version, I'm afraid, of) Blake’s image for the Sick Rose:
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