Woefully Arrayed, Op.13 ["Wofully Araide"], or "Crucifixus pro vobis"
- Submitting institution
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The University of Chichester
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 842
- Type
- J - Composition
- Month
- July
- Year
- 2016
- URL
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http://eprints.chi.ac.uk/id/eprint/2263/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Part of a large-scale, contemporary, "Polychoral Music Composition and Recording Project", this piece was composed June-August 2016 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the National Boys’ Choir of Australia (founded 1964). It includes excerpts of text attributed to John Skelton.
The anthem for AATTBB Choir and 2 x SSA Soloists (or Choirs) – with optional Organ and Instrumental accompaniment – was sung by Vox Futura, played by organist Heinrich Christensen, conducted by Dr Andrew Shenton, and first recorded 19 November 2016 in the Romanesque Revival “Church of the Holy Name”, West Roxbury, USA.
It was featured on the programme "Americana" on Christmas Day 2017 on Croatian National Radio's "Third" programme: RADIO.HRT.HR (Radio HR3) - part of Croatian Radio-Television (HRT) - in the Republic of Croatia. See: http://radio.hrt.hr/treci-program/ep/americana/235907/.
Due to the incorporation of “polychoral”-derived techniques (in addition to some derived from Medieval music), a striking extra dimension is added both to recordings and to live performances (where the aural “spatial” interest creates a quasi-theatrical effect). The harmonic language is largely built on the composer’s personalised modal foundations, frequently complemented by very subtle use of rhythm and ornament, which can sometimes involve quite elaborate – but always delicate – “filigree”-like patterns.
Woefully Arrayed runs for approximately 26 minutes, is scored for Triple Choir and Organ, and comes from the album [CD], "Woefully Arrayed: Sacred and Secular Choral and Polychoral Works of Jonathan David Little", issued on the US Navona label, 14 July, 2017 (NV6113).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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