Tag: texts for music
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Form in Music and Nature
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Read more: Form in Music and NatureForm in Music was the title of my college music theory textbook. Form gives music its shape. The music is paced in the moment by the tempo, but the larger shape is made by passages that repeat and develop, by the musical events that interject and interrupt and flow into each other, and how the…
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Notes on writing “The Future of Life”
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Read more: Notes on writing “The Future of Life”It’s never been easy for me to find poetry that I want to use for choral music. Most seems too intimate. Essays have been what grabs me. It seems that choral music with all those voices needs to be about something big. So after reading The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson, entomologist and…