CMV3 Part 4: Keegan-Bole - 'Piece for Small Female Choir & Soprano Number A (Noster Cetus)'

PART 4 of CMV 3 performed by Schola Cantorum (Dir. Emma Hornby)
Piece:
Piece for Small Female Choir and Solo Soprano Number A (Noster Cetus) - Arthur Keegan-Bole, 2011

For this concert, five student composers wrote responses to pieces of 12th Century Aquitanian polyphony. Each piece of medieval polyphony was immediately followed by the contemporary piece responding to it. Four of the pieces commissioned write for a soloist, two for Soprano, two for alto, the other is for the choir only.

Dr. Emma Hornby's performance group Schola Cantorum specialise in medieval music and helped the composers through many of the difficulties of old notation and the nuances of medieval performance practice. In return, the composers really stretched the choir, asking for a style of performance and techniques which a specialist medieval music choir are not in the least used to!

Category:

Music

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• Music
• concert
• CMV
• Medieval
• Contemporary
• Classical
• choral
• Aquitanian chant
• chant
• bristol university
• Schola Cantorum
• Emma Hornby
• composition