Description
for SATB unaccompanied The star has come is an illustrative and imaginative setting of a poem by Robert Seatter. In response to the evocative text, Williams uses portamenti techniques to create musical imagery, and explores cross-rhythms, chromatic harmony, and energetic dynamics in an ever-changing texture.
About the Author
Roderick Williams studied music and composition at Oxford University. Alongside a successful performing career as a baritone soloist, he has also developed a strong reputation as a composer. Encompassing opera, instrumental, vocal, and choral music, his works have been commissioned and performed by such groups as The Sixteen, the BBC Singers, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and soloists including Sally Matthews, James Rutherford, and Susan Bullock. His music has been heard at Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, the Southbank Centre, and on BBC Radio.
Reviews
If it's excitement you crave, look no further than Roderick Williams's latest offering, which sets verse by Robert Seatter - The Star has Come with a flash and a zoom / The star has come out of the night now into this room. The musical phrases take their cue from the interval of a second, and this short work positively fizzes along. Singers will have great fun with the portamenti at the beginning and end of the piece. Nothing like a slide at Christmas . . . * Jeremy Jackman, Choir & Organ, September 2019 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780193529090
Author Roderick Williams
Page Count 8
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 18g
Dimensions(mm) 255mm * 179mm * 1mm
About the Author
Roderick Williams studied music and composition at Oxford University. Alongside a successful performing career as a baritone soloist, he has also developed a strong reputation as a composer. Encompassing opera, instrumental, vocal, and choral music, his works have been commissioned and performed by such groups as The Sixteen, the BBC Singers, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and soloists including Sally Matthews, James Rutherford, and Susan Bullock. His music has been heard at Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, the Southbank Centre, and on BBC Radio.
Reviews
If it's excitement you crave, look no further than Roderick Williams's latest offering, which sets verse by Robert Seatter - The Star has Come with a flash and a zoom / The star has come out of the night now into this room. The musical phrases take their cue from the interval of a second, and this short work positively fizzes along. Singers will have great fun with the portamenti at the beginning and end of the piece. Nothing like a slide at Christmas . . . * Jeremy Jackman, Choir & Organ, September 2019 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780193529090
Author Roderick Williams
Page Count 8
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 18g
Dimensions(mm) 255mm * 179mm * 1mm
