Matériel : Vocal Score
SKU: HL.49044862
ISBN 9790001203364. UPC: 841886025189. 7.5x10.5 inches. English.
The Irish composer Frank Corcoran already won several first prizes, such as for his English-language choral composition 'Eight Haikus' at the International Foundation for Choral Music in 2013. The almost 10-minute work for 4- to 8-part mixed a-cappella choir is based on eight secular texts written by Corcoran himself in the style of the famous Japanese haiku poems. In this shortest lyrical form of world literature which consists of only three lines, the composer born in 1944 uses a large variety of labials, sibilants and plosives and addresses socially relevant topics by means of simple descriptions of nature and seasons in a content-wise and musically figurative and almost mystical language.
SKU: HL.49045572
ISBN 9790001159432. 9.25x12.0x0.07 inches. German - Middle High German.
Heinz Holliger set to music melancholy texts for his eight-part cycle of songs, premiered in 2013, which remind the listeners of the transience and progress of life. The texts range from the medieval Christian mysticism of Mechthild of Magdeburg to Japanese haiku poems from the 18th century (buson) to the contemporary artists Catrin Demenga and Sylvia Nopper.
SKU: HL.48024680
ISBN 9783793142249. UPC: 888680952549.
As a firm avant-gardist, Ursula Mamlock primarily focused on instrumental music, mostly with typically reduced means and expression.Text-based pieces, vocal music, especially choral music are exceptions in her oeuvre, thereby arousing special interest. For example, Mamlok set several haikus to music (in English translation): The fragile precision of these suggestive Japanese poems was in line with her sense of aesthetics. Her work Mosaics consists of eight extremely short pieces. The mixed choir singing in a soloistic manner does not develop in a linear way but helps to create different colourful pictures that interact with each other, a kind of light, restless serenity. 'Even Webern did not dare write such short pieces, especially not for choir', judges Mamlok's biographer Habakuk Traber. 'In the literature for vocal ensembles, Mamlok's Mosaics stands out unique.'.
