Today, let’s consider how manner in which text is set affects performance. Mini history lesson. One of the ways in which the upheaval of the Reformation affected music is the how texts were set. There was at that time a movement against florid polyphony, or as Thomas Cranmer said, “the song that shall be […]
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Name That Choir Tune (No. 20)
Saturday Respite: Prepare to Feel Small
This view of just a tiny section of a single galaxy helps to keep one's little problems in perspecive. Oh, and so far the number of galaxies we have been able to view numbers ten to the eleventh power. Feel small yet?
Building Skills 11
More from Daniel Coyle: Tip #15 "Break Every Move Down into Chunks." This is something that most conductors know how to do, whether or not they know this terminology. As Coyle says, "From the time we're small, we hear this good advice from our parents and teachers: Take it a little bit at […]
The Dream Continues . . .