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Songs of Praise

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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc663549
Date05 1900
CreatorsBardin, Charles Randall
ContributorsLatham, William P., Brothers, Lester Dwayne, 1945-
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Format1 ms. score (xxiv, 108 leaves) : ill., Text
RightsPublic, Bardin, Charles Randall, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights

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