by cchoir | Apr 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
I tried today to get my improv for Do Not Stand to repeat itself because I thought it was a good model and I couldn’t get this to work at all. Irritation! At first I tried it today a cappella; then when I remembered I was going to try piano and choir things got...
by cchoir | Apr 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there; I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow, I am the sun on ripened grain, I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in the morning’s hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of...
by cchoir | Apr 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Hi all. I”ve been away on vacation in Chicago so I haven’t been writing this week, but I’m starting again today. I’m going to hold off on the chant piece for a bit. I have some sense of the energy I need for it but I don’t quite have the...
by cchoir | Mar 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
Before I mentioned a texture where I would have ancient chant, as best as I can do it, and have plaining chords below. I’ve ben wrestling with this on the piano and I am ending up with aimlessness. Not good! I think I shouldn’t try to write the tune and...
by cchoir | Mar 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
I’m working on my untitled chant piece.I’ve listened to Hildegard for ever by now and wrote a lot of chant myself. Only after writing my own chant did I realize that my understanding of Hildegard was pretty far off, both in pitches but also in rhythms. I...
by cchoir | Mar 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
I think I found the poem I needed. Blessed be the internet! This translation is floating around online – not sure what the deal is with copyright. If I’m going for some chant based writing this might be too short; but having found this poem I now need to...
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