Tracce: for SATB quartet, amplified

TY - ADVS

T1 - Tracce

T2 - for SATB quartet, amplified

A2 - Brooks, William

N1 - First performance by Madrigali Redux on the York Late Music Festival, 7 September 2013.

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - Arising in part from an ongoing research project into declamation, music, and Irish poetry, Tracce takes as its text a Synge translation (highly idiomatic, very Irish, and not at all literal) of a Petrarch sonnet that was set by Monteverdi and Marenzio, among others. An analysis (being prepared for publication) of the Monteverdi setting provided both structure and materials for Tracce; an analysis of Synge's text suggested the gestural quality; and my long-standing study of the phonetic representation of vocal technique informed the notation.

AB - Arising in part from an ongoing research project into declamation, music, and Irish poetry, Tracce takes as its text a Synge translation (highly idiomatic, very Irish, and not at all literal) of a Petrarch sonnet that was set by Monteverdi and Marenzio, among others. An analysis (being prepared for publication) of the Monteverdi setting provided both structure and materials for Tracce; an analysis of Synge's text suggested the gestural quality; and my long-standing study of the phonetic representation of vocal technique informed the notation.

M3 - Composition

PB - Frog Peak Music

ER -