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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Nov 26, 2013 - 03:36pm PT
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I've never had a chance to sing the Tallis "Lamentations of Jeremiah," but I did sing the Poulenc "Vinea Mea Electa," except in English rather than Latin. I think the most haunting a capella singing I've done in Latin is the Vaughn Willaims Mass in g minor (snippet follows: the Agnus Dei)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju8Efr54l2c
and in English, the H. G. Graun "Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs" (Yes, I know he wrote it in German, but I sung it in English), except I can't find a decent link to an a capella recording of it (the few I've found are accompanied, but I sang it a capella when I was in Pasadena).
As for darkest, I can't pick just one or even a few. Maybe after another day or two i can winnow it down, though.
John
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Nov 26, 2013 - 03:50pm PT
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Great thread and I'm loving all the links... but...
For those of you who need clarification:
Definition of "A Capella": A cappella Music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It contrasts with cantata, which is accompanied singing... In the 19th century a renewed interest in Renaissance polyphony coupled with an ignorance of the fact that vocal parts were often doubled by instrumentalists led to the term coming to mean unaccompanied vocal music.[1]
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 26, 2013 - 06:18pm PT
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Justthemaid,
Good point. Addressing my choices:
I worried about mentioning the Chilites because the the first thing you hear on one of their cuts is an instrument, but they come from a tradition of totally unaccompanied singing (really: street corners and stairwells).
W.R.T Hildegard: I'm not sure anyone knows what voices she intended to present her music. I'll have to ask my musicologist friends. Now we hear her compositions in echoey cathedrals accompanied by instruments invented after she lived. But yeah, I wished I could have found a samples without accompaniment.
Did Persuasions ever performed with instruments?
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Joe Metz
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Nov 27, 2013 - 01:34am PT
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Great thread!
There is nothing on earth like the Russian Orthodox choir music. Pure, simple, powerful, human.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Nov 27, 2013 - 02:18pm PT
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The Wailin Jennys
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Posted by Nita on another thread.
Hauting... yes... Dark... hardly... Though also used during times of darkness...
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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W.R.T Hildegard von Bingen and accompaniment.
People more in the know than myself, based on the notation and accents in original/earliest(?) scores think that: Hildegard von Bingem, regardless of how she's performed now, originally wrote for unaccompanied voice.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Me and a Gun
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SuperTopo on the Web
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