Word: choraling
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...thin, airy voice sliding up to its pitch, the song’s weak start had FlyBy skeptical. Why tackle this without Freddie Mercury? But as it progresses, the arrangement weaves the main vocal line into a duet and emphasizes the collaborative elements of the song’s choral ending. The choreography is simple, but with Rachel finding her voice again and Mercedes getting a chance to shine, it’s more than enough. Bring on the first competition...
Though recent indie rock groups have relied heavily on the choral sound of multi-track vocals—Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear, and Sufjan Stevens to name a few—none of them have done it quite as impressively as Bon Iver in “For Emma, Forever Ago,” the 2007 debut album written, performed, and produced by Wisconsinite Justin Vernon. Part of the success of the album was the stark and at-times haunting instrumentation that supported his hymnal voicing. In Vernon’s newest project, an entirely new musical setting from...
...when it was released, in March 1951. It encapsulates the lithe popular art of all those Les and Mary singles - the density and clarity, the distinctiveness of his guitar voice and her intimate vocal instrument, the heart and the fun. It's a number that expresses the choral lilt of early-'50s pop and the electric drive of mid-'50s rock, as if "Mr. Sandman" had married "Peggy...
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...Another element that distinguishes Camerata Obscura and their repertoire for “Music of Lament” is that all the pieces were written in the period before the dawn of what we now know as classical music. “One of the things that characterizes early choral music is that they don’t get very much accompaniment,” says de Bakker. “You also get stylistic things like being polyphonic in texture. Each line is thought of as its own thing. If you’re just banging out chords...