Product Description
This is an orchestra arrangement of Elgar's choral setting of the Tennyson poem, "There Is Sweet Music." Scored for single winds, horn in F, and strings. 1111 1000 Strings. Duration approx. 3'45".
Among
the best-known compositions of Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) are his orchestral
works, the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance
Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies
among them. He is also known for his choral works, including The Dream
of Gerontius, chamber music and songs.
Elgars
1907 set of Four Part Songs, choral miniatures for unaccompanied mixed chorus,
are some of the most challenging in the repertoire. The first of these, setting a poem by Alfred,
Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), There Is Sweet Music presents a
particularly special challenge to the singers, as apparently the first music
ever published composed in two simultaneous keys. The men are in G major throughout, while the
women are in A-flat major, two harmonically distant keys. Nevertheless, the music never sounds
particularly dissonant and the effect is gentle.
Choral
conductor Dr. Gary D. Cannon noted an orchestral quality in Elgars choral
writing and suggested the possibility that There Is Sweet Music might be
transcribed for orchestra, giving the mens parts to the strings and the
womens parts to the winds. Composer
Greg Bartholomew accepted this challenge and produced this arrangement.
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