A Survey of Choral Music (Harbrace History of Musical Forms)
by Homer Ulrich
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Author: Homer UlrichEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1973-04-10
ISBN: 0155848631
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Schirmer
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Summary: 4 Stars
This paperback text is aimed at the student or amateur looking for a solid grounding in the history and evolution of choral genres and forms from the Renaissance to 1973 (date of publication).
Buyers should note that this book does not necessarily include the spiral bound, very useful-sounding anthology mentioned above, but does include texts and translations of the Mass, Stabat Mater, and other oft-set texts. For a more extensive text/translation resource, check out Ron Jeffers' Translations and Annotations of Choral Repertoire.
Students of recent choral music should note that the publication date (1973) means that some influential composers' outputs are truncated (Penderecki), and others absent (Part, Tavener, Adams, Whitacre). For more on this, check out Nick Strimple's Choral Music in the Twentieth Century. The Ulrich is not an ethnologically broad text either, focusing on the European and American traditions.
Despite these limitations, the book is a compact (1/2 inch) and informative entry-level book for scholars of choral music.
Summary of A Survey of Choral Music (Harbrace History of Musical Forms)
In this brief text, Homer Ulrich offers students a history of choral music that is as rich and fascinating as the genre itself. Emphasizing those works that represent historical or stylistic turning points, A SURVEY OF CHORAL MUSIC begins several centuries before the invention of the genre and takes students all the way into the twentieth century. Ulrich's descriptive discussions mix history and analysis with explication of musical structures, text sources and treatments, and kinds of texture. The text offers a useful glossary, bibliography, and list of music sources--as well as appendices that provide several principal types of sacred texts (including Requiem Mass, Te Deum, and Magnificat) for quick reference.Instruments & Performers Books
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