Details
- Instrument:
- Piano Vocal Duet
- Genres:
- Standards Easter Contemporary
- Composers:
- Victor Labenske
- Publishers:
- Labenske Music Services
- Series:
- ArrangeMe
- Format:
- Score and Parts
- Item types:
- Digital
- Artist:
- Victor Labenske
- Usages:
- Easter
- Number of Pages:
- 25
SKU: A0.844194
Composed by Victor Labenske. Contemporary,Easter,Sacred,Standards. 25 pages. Labenske Music Services #2591123. Published by Labenske Music Services (A0.844194).This song cycle for female voice features poems from Carl Winderl’s book of Marian poetry, Mary Speaks of Her Son, providing a rich collection from which the composer has chosen five poems to set. Each poem is spoken in the first person by Mary, the mother of Christ.
The composer has used a number of unifying devices throughout the cycle. First, the composer includes quotes from both Gregorian chant (italicized titles) and Protestant hymnody (capitalized hymn tune names) drawing on the influence of the poet’s early religious instruction; this training came from Winderl’s two grandmothers who on alternating Sundays took him to both Catholic and Protestant churches. In addition, a "Mary motive" derived from solfege (Ma-ri-A) appears in each song (the cycle’s opening 3 notes in the vocal line) which coincidentally is the retrograde inversion of Bernstein’s "Maria" motive in Westside Story. Finally, references to the cross are represented symbolically with the octatonic pitch set.
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- ArrangeMe:
- Labenske Music Services
- Series:
- ArrangeMe
- Instrument:
- Piano and Keyboard Piano Vocal Voice Vocal Duet
- Artists:
- Victor Labenske
- Publisher:
- Labenske Music Services