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A recital of selected songs for the low male voice composed by Gerald Finzi using the poetry of Thomas Hardy
- "Chapter II presents an extensive biographical and artistic coverage of the composer and the poet which points to their motivations and reasons for writing. The examination is intended to indicate the emotional and intellectual involvement of each man within his respective artistic area, plus a deep understanding and sympathy toward that of another, i.e., Gerald Finzi to poetry and Thomas Hardy to music. The chapter collects into a single source a more complete biographical and artistic description of Gerald Finzi than does so far exist, and it attempts to delineate Hardy the poet from Hardy the novelist, a necessity for the limited purposes of this project."
- "Gerald Finzi's style of composition, evaluated on the basis of the songs studied and analyzed, emerges as one that is conservative, and one that is strongly influenced by characteristics most typical of the Romantic period of music. A cleanliness of texture lines, economical use of material, and long contrapuntally conceived melodies, which make little use of chromaticism, indicate his intense study of the music of seventeenth and eighteenth century composers. Twentieth century characteristics seen in the compositions are frequent unorthodox key and chord relationships, and tonalities that are often mixed or polychordal in their construction. Two traditional sources for English compositional style (folk music and church music) reflect a strong influence in the songs of Finzi. The composer's primary compositional consideration appears to have been to illustrate the textual thought being conveyed in the poem, rather than concerning himself with the means of expression."
- "Chapter III reports the analyses of the various songs used in the program and a summary of the general characteristics peculiar to Finzi's compositions as evidenced from the songs investigated. Each analysis is in two parts--musical and performance. The primary purpose of the analyses was to determine the salient factors necessary to an effective performance interpretation. The considerations given to each song in the musical analysis are: harmony, melody, meter and rhythm, texture, tonality, form, range and tessitura, accompaniment, and musical devices. In the performance analysis, the following considerations are made: general interpretation of the text, specific word meanings, specific vocal considerations, phrasing, dynamics, and specific considerations of the accompaniment. Not all of the individual categories appear in every analysis with their need being obviated by the absence of a factor or of its ordinary use."
- "The purpose of this project was to investigate the substantial amount of music that Gerald Finzi wrote specifically for the low male voice, and to give it further exposition through a recital performance of selected songs and through the writing of a related analytical paper. It was felt that a project of this nature would offer a source from which future students of voice, and recitalists might draw programming and analytical information for literature appropriate to the low male voice."
- "A recital of selected songs for the low male voice composed by Gerald Finzi using the poetry of Thomas Hardy"
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