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Promotional Cantata Of 1897
The ''Songs for Mixed Chorus from the 1897 Promotional Cantata'' (in Finnish language, Finnish: ; sometimes abbreviated as the Nine Songs), Opus number, Op. 23, is a song cycle of pieces for soprano, baritone, and SATB, mixed choir a cappella, arranged in 1898 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. Sung in Finnish language, Finnish to words by the poet A. V. Koskimies, the songs were originally part of a larger orchestral work: the ''Cantata for the University Graduation Ceremonies of 1897'' (), List of compositions by Jean Sibelius#Works with and without opus, JS 106. It is chronologically the third of Sibelius's nine orchestral cantatas, and belongs to a series of three such pieces—along with the ''Promotional Cantata of 1894'' (JS 105) and the ''Coronation Cantata'' (JS 104, 1896)—that he wrote on commission from his employer at the time, the University of Helsinki, Imperial Alexander University (today the University of Helsinki). The complete scor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Cycle
A song cycle (german: Liederkreis or Liederzyklus) is a group, or cycle (music), cycle, of individually complete Art song, songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a unit.Susan Youens, ''Grove online'' The songs are either for solo voice or an ensemble, or rarely a combination of solo songs mingled with choral pieces. The number of songs in a song cycle may be as brief as two songs or as long as 30 or more songs. The term "song cycle" did not enter lexicography until 1865, in Arrey von Dommer's edition of ''Koch’s Musikalisches Lexikon'', but works definable in retrospect as song cycles existed long before then. One of the earliest examples may be the set of seven Cantiga de amigo, Cantigas de amigo by the 13th-century Galicians, Galician jongleur Martin Codax. Jeffrey Mark identified the group of dialect songs 'Hodge und Malkyn' from Thomas Ravenscroft's ''The Briefe Discourse'' (1614) as the first of a number of early 17th Century examples in England. A song cycle is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |