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The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard. Benjamin Britten. Choir sheet music.

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The Ballad of Little Musgrave og Lady Barnard. Benjamin Britten. Choir noder.

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The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard composed by Benjamin Britten. 1913-1976. For Choral. TBB. BH Secular Choral. 22 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M051481705. Published by Boosey & Hawkes. HL.48021286. ISBN 1458471608. 6.75x10.5 inches. for male voices. T Bar B. and piano. Britten notes that this should be two pianos if performed by a large chorus. Text. anon. from the Oxford Book of Ballads. Publisher. Boosey & Hawkes. Difficulty level. 2-3. This work had a curious genesis. Britten's stance as a conscientious objector in World War II is well known but his sympathies for those caught up in its ramifications were as deeply felt as anyone's. Written in the middle of the war years, this ballad was composed 'For Richard Wood and the musicians of Oflag VIIb - Germany'. Wood had organised a music festival at this officers' POW camp at Eichstätt, Bavaria between February and March 1943 and Britten's work was performed at seven of the concerts. The story tells of an unfaithful wife and her lover. Lady Barnard and little Musgrave. being discovered in flagrante delicto and murdered by the cheated husband, Lord Barnard. The music is wonderfully descriptive of the tale beginning with a plodding piano part and the prosaic opening of the tale. As the baritones and then the tenors join the fray, so intensity grows as the liaison between the two lovers is laid bare. A 'little tiny page' - Lady Barnard's footman - overhears the assignation made between the two, and he dashes off to spill the beans to his master who hastens to catch them red-handed. Musgrave thinks he hears Lord Barnard's hunting horn urging his horses to speed on. His mistress, however, encourages him to lie longer , thinking it is just a shepherd's horn. And so the die is cast. The ending is a moving slow threnody as Barnard laments the death of his wife, urging the gravediggers to put her on top of Musgrave as 'she comes from nobler kin'. This is a wonderfully dramatic work which will be well within the capabilities of most reasonable choirs. It needs a group of singers who can sustain long-ish lines in the slower passages, and counter a possible tendency to flatness in these sections as well. Care should be taken over the balance between the three parts and especially over the division between the two bass parts. The ability. desire. to tell the story with a sense of involvement and of passion will make all the difference to a successful performance. Duration. 10 minutes. Paul Spicer, Lichfield, 2011.

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Balladen om Lille Musgrave og Lady Barnard komponeret af Benjamin Britten. 1913-1976. For Choral. TBB. BH Secular Choral. 22 sider. Буси. Udgivet af Boosey. HL.48021286. ISBN 1458471608. 6.75x10.5 inches. for mandlige stemmer. T Bar B. og klaver. Britten bemærker, at dette bør være to klaverer, hvis det udføres af en stor kor. Tekst. anon. fra Oxford Book of Ballads. Publisher. Boosey. Sværhedsgrad. 2-3. Dette arbejde havde en nysgerrig genese. Britten holdning som militærnægter i Anden Verdenskrig er velkendt, men hans sympati for dem fanget i sine forgreninger blev så dybtfølt som nogen er. Skrevet i midten af ​​krigsårene, var dette ballade komponeret »For Richard Wood og musikerne i Oflag VIIb - Tyskland '. Wood havde organiseret en musikfestival på dette officerernes POW lejr ved Eichstätt, blev Bayern mellem februar og marts 1943 og Britten arbejde udføres på syv af koncerterne. Historien fortæller om en utro kone og hendes elsker. Lady Barnard og lille Musgrave. blive opdaget på fersk gerning og myrdet af den snydt mand, Lord Barnard. Musikken er vidunderligt beskrivende for fortælling, der begynder med en plodding klaver del og den prosaiske åbning af fortællingen. Da baritones og derefter tenorer slutte sig til kampen, så intensiteten vokser som bindeled mellem de to elskende er blotlagt. En "lille lille side" - Lady Barnard Tjener - overhører det stævnemøde mellem de to, og han styrter ud for at spilde bønnerne til sin herre, der skynder sig at fange dem på fersk gerning. Musgrave mener han hører Lord Barnard jagt horn opfordrer sine heste i fart på. Hans elskerinde, tilskynder dog ham til at ligge længere, tænker det er blot en hyrde horn. Og så terningerne er kastet. Slutningen er en bevægende langsom Threnody som Barnard beklager drabet på sin kone, som opfordrer gravediggers at sætte hende på toppen af ​​Musgrave som "hun kommer fra ædlere kin '. Dette er et vidunderligt dramatisk arbejde, som vil være godt inden mulighederne i de fleste fornuftige kor. Den har brug for en gruppe af sangere, der kan bære lange-ish linjer i de langsommere passager, og modvirke en eventuel tendens til fladhed i disse afsnit samt. Der bør udvises forsigtighed over balancen mellem de tre dele, og især over fordelingen mellem de to bas dele. Evnen. ønske. at fortælle historien med en følelse af engagement og lidenskab vil gøre hele forskellen til en vellykket præstation. Varighed. 10 minutter. Paul Spicer, Lichfield 2011.