Listening Activity - CMP: October by Eric Whitacre · Composer Eric Whitacre has...
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Listening Activity Sit down, put your instrument together While you are putting your instrument together, think about how the piece makes you feel or what comes to mind while you listen ex. images that come to mind Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Transcript of Listening Activity - CMP: October by Eric Whitacre · Composer Eric Whitacre has...
Listening Activity
Sit down, put your instrument together
While you are putting your instrument together, think about how the piece makes you feel or what comes to mind while you listen ex. images that come to mind
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Octoberby: Eric Whitacre
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Composer
Eric Whitacre has compositions/arrangements for choir, band AND orchestra
Didn’t learn to read music until later in his musical career.
Received his M.M. in composition from Julliard!
Won a Grammy for his first album “Light and Gold” in 2012
Virtual Choir
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Composer
Writes primarily for choir
his band works emulate the voice with the orchestration
phrasing
tension and release
SIGH MOTIVES :)
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It was aCommission!
It was commissioned by the Nebraska Wind Consortium and Brian Anderson (the Consortium Chairman)
It took 4 years of correspondence and work to be completed (The Instrumentalist Sep. 2005)
The contract was signed in 1998 and it specified that the piece needed to be categorized as grade 3-4
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Program Notes
“...there just isn’t enough lush, beautiful music written for winds” - Whitacre
pastoral melodies and harmonies were inspired by the English Romantics like Vaughan Williams and Elgar
written with simple rhythms but its musical maturity comes from the complex harmony throughout
October is his favorite month
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