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Water Night (Whitacre)
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Water Night is one of composer Eric Whitacre's earliest works, written in 1994 during Whitacre's attendance at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and commissioned by the Dale Warland Singers. It is written for SATB choir a cappella with three, four, and five-part divisi in vocal sections. The text is from Octavio Paz's poem Agua nocturna, adapted by Whitacre and translated by Muriel Rukeyser. According to Whitacre, "[t]he music sounded in the air" as he read the poem.The piece begins on a standard B-flat minor triad with a hovering third in the soprano line. As the first five measures progress, a subtle chord progression plays upon this tonic chord, consisting of ninth and eleventh chords, yet still maintaining the B3 pedal point. This use of tonic beneath moving dissonance paints an initial sensation of darkness and irregularity, and is maintained an octave lower in measures 6-15. Whitacre then immediately shifts the established current with a subito forte entrance by the women on a B minor triad, echoed by the men two beats into the measure. The men and women continue the "call-and-response" tonic-beneath-dissonance progression as it modulates downward. Measures 25-26 echo the irr
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- Allgemeine Informationen
- GTIN 09786137973196
- Editor Adélaïde Laurie Felicie
- Sprache Englisch
- Auflage Aufl.
- Größe H220mm x B220mm
- Jahr 2011
- EAN 9786137973196
- Format Kartonierter Einband (Kt)
- ISBN 978-613-7-97319-6
- Titel Water Night (Whitacre)
- Untertitel Eric Whitacre, Dale Warland Singers, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Herausgeber SALV
- Anzahl Seiten 88
- Genre Musik
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