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| Emma Hornby | Dec 5 2014, 04:14 PM Post #1 |
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In his introduction, RAbbott wrote:
We are asking for composers to write EITHER for Kokoro or for one of the Cathedral Choirs. This is for two reasons. The first reason is practical and financial (it costs a certain amount of money to have a choir or ensemble spend a day workshopping compositions. If we have to ask one of them to come back for an extra half day to rehearse some compositions with one of the other ensembles, we run over budget). The second reason is that our aspiration for the composition competition is that the six commissioned pieces/collections will become a part of the repertoire of the choir or ensemble for whom it was written. We are also hoping that some at least of the other shortlisted and workshopped compositions will get taken into the repertory of that choir or ensemble as well. We are seeking something with a legacy here, where the musical outputs from our discussions will go on impacting on people's musical and (maybe) spiritual lives. If composers write for a combination of forces that would never usually combine, that can't happen in the same way - on a regular weekday evensong, Christ Church choir or Bristol Cathedral choir might sing an anthem written for them by one of you, but they absolutely wouldn't be able to get together with a professional contemporary music ensemble to perform a combined anthem within the normal routine of their musical lives. The music for the choirs needs to be suitable for use within the Anglican liturgy because it would be a terrible waste of effort for the choirs to learn the music and then perform it as a one-off at the workshop or the final concert. |
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| Lindsay | Dec 23 2014, 07:31 PM Post #2 |
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Does the ensemble piece have to include all the instruments? |
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| Emma Hornby | Dec 23 2014, 07:49 PM Post #3 |
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No But it can't include anything else...
Edited by Emma Hornby, Dec 23 2014, 07:50 PM.
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| Emma Hornby | Mar 9 2015, 08:29 PM Post #4 |
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Another question via email:
Christ Church Oxford has boy trebles. Bristol Cathedral Choir has a set of boy trebles and a set of girl trebles (and they alternate between the two groups of children from day to day). When we are shortlisting the 12 choral compositions to be workshopped, we will divide them into two piles of six, one for each cathedral choir, and we will do that in discussion with Stephen Darlington and Mark Lee, who direct the two choirs. Our hope is that at least some of those 12 short compositions will become part of the regular repertoire of one of the two choirs. There will be three composers selected to write the longer 15 minute portfolio of compositions for cathedral choir. We will divide these up between the two choirs for the big concert in Bristol in a purely pragmatic way (if everything is quite singable, then we can probably combine the two choirs for all of the music. If some of the music is really hard, then probably just one choir will have time to learn it, while the other choir learns something else). Again, we are hoping that all of this music will become part of the repertoire of whichever choir learned it for the concert. |
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| Emma Hornby | Jun 25 2015, 06:41 PM Post #5 |
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About Kokoro: a reminder that there is ONE percussion player. You can get him/her to play any normal orchestral percussion you like (including marimba and/or xylophone) but it needs to be manageable by just one person. (same of course for flute - you can use flute, piccolo, bass flute, but there's only one player so you can only use one at a time, and need to allow time for them to drop one instrument and pick up another; same for clarinet - one player, standard doublings available). |
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| Williamajcole | Aug 6 2015, 08:21 PM Post #6 |
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Hi Emma, I've got two questions about Kokoro. - Do they have a 5-octave marimba? - Will there be a conductor for the workshop? |
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| Emma Hornby | Aug 7 2015, 03:04 PM Post #7 |
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Yes they'll have their conductor with them. Yes, there can be a marimba (I'm not a percussionist - it's a normal orchestral marimba that belongs to the music department here in Bristol - I don't know how many octaves that would be - if there is lots of variety, I'll go and ask someone who will know). Remember there is only one percussionIST, however many percussion instruments you choose to use. |
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| Williamajcole | Aug 7 2015, 03:12 PM Post #8 |
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Great. It would be good actually to know exactly which marimba they'll bring - the regular size is 4-octave, but some people have a larger 5-octave instrument (which also tends to be the norm in contemporary music I think). So any confirmation on what size will be there on the day would be great! Thanks. |
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| Emma Hornby | Aug 7 2015, 03:49 PM Post #9 |
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It's 4 octaves. (I just checked. Our inventory actually says "4 and a quarter octaves" so make of that what you will...) |
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But it can't include anything else...
8:25 PM Jul 11