Fauré Requiem Arranged for Jazz Trio and Community Choir
- Submitting institution
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University of South Wales / Prifysgol De Cymru
: B - B – Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : B - B – Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
- Output identifier
- 4820917
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- Hay Festival 2019
- Open access status
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- Month of first performance
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- Year of first performance
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘Fauré Requiem Arranged for Jazz Trio and Community Choir’ is an output consisting of a musical arrangement created by Paula Gardiner for the Hay Festival in May 2019. The objective of this pro-ject was to produce a reimagining of the Fauré Requiem in a jazz idiom with community participa-tion. The principal challenge of the project entailed aspects that have always been attractive to Gardiner: to negotiate hybridity with regard to idiom and also with regard to the supposed hierar-chy of professional and amateur. When approaching jazz arrangement previously, Gardiner first considered re-harmonisation, adjusting the time-feel and re-orchestration. The methodology she employed in arranging the Fauré Requiem, however, was very different. Improvised performance would provide the primary underpinning for her arrangement. Original melodies and countermel-odies were presented for saxophone and piano to allow for interpretation and extemporisation, eventually leading to full improvisation. The community choir was itself involved in the creative process, working together to improvise an introduction to the work. The final component of the arrangement was ‘structural’. Gardiner extracted instrumental passages from the original work and used these as extended introductions/interludes and vehicles for improvisation. The unusual ap-proach of using original material and allowing for a jazz player’s interpretation (playing and extend-ing given material simultaneously in strict time and with rubato), resulted in new insights into both jazz arrangement and performance: A performance that was true to the original work and true to contemporary jazz sensibilities. The piece was performed at the Hay Festival, 31st May 2019.
The submitted pdf file includes a link to the performance at the Hay Festival, as well as photographs and a description of the research process.
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- Non-English
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