At 10:49 PM -0500 9/18/11, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: >John Howell wrote: > >> that's true up through Mozart >> as far as sacred music goes. > >but I would note that it's also true for a significant portion of >English Cathedral Music up through the present time. While much of the >music is quite lovely with a mixed choir, the choirs with whom the >composers wrote the music were the Cathedral and College foundations, >most of which maintain to this day a choir of men and boys.
Absolutely true! And that DOES make it a different instrument from the mixed choir. Another factor that skews our thinking is that much 19th century sacred music was written more for concert use than for liturgical use, often on sacred subjects but for choral festivals, and women DID participate in those, so composers wrote for their voices. John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[email protected]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen Sie es, wie Sie wollen, machen Sie es nur schön." (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
