Songs of Praise is a setting of four passages from the Psalms for soprano and chamber orchestra. The text is taken from Psalms 96, 114, 55, and 116 of the New American Standard Version, with each psalm scored as a separate movement. The duration of the work is approximately seventeen and one-half minutes. The instrumentation includes soprano, oboe, strings, and a percussion section of four players incorporating fourteen different instruments. The musical language employed is largely tonal, consisting generally of shifting tonal emphases achieved by exploiting the pitch relationships of traditional tonality. The movements are contrasting in character, according to the text, but generally of the same style. The vocal line predominates throughout spanning two octaves and a minor third from an A below middle C to a high C above the treble clef.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc663549 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Bardin, Charles Randall |
| Contributors | Latham, William P., Brothers, Lester Dwayne, 1945- |
| Publisher | North Texas State University |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | 1 ms. score (xxiv, 108 leaves) : ill., Text |
| Rights | Public, Bardin, Charles Randall, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights |
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