-Helen Wadell had an influence on Howells
-psalms of the wondering scholars begin with a quote from Wadell
-spirituality, a sense of other, inspiration taken from earlier music, popular focus of work in the early 20th century dispite the fact they are athiest
-sacred and secular rub shoulders through text
-dulomere??? cold and stillness of winter, the birth of jesus to intensify the image, in a poem
-Howells setting of this poem, sense of remoteness painted in sound
-listening to this piece
-Orthodox worship “ppl look at worship as consciousness of heaven come down to earth...howells and English visionary composers are trying to create this
-music paints a sense of wonder by basses starting low and other voices build until the soprano descant creating an etherial
-synesthesia: mixing of senses
-this music is the equivalent of stained glass windows for a more sophisticated audience
-when Vaughn williams came in Glauster cathedral with his fantasia, fused the old and new
-for some composers, Gregorian chant created the distance, Williams used the English Hymnal to create eclesiastical distance and a psalm with his own music
-the mass in G minor, it was to bring a whole new world of tet and musical feelings, like the Oxford movement, catholic revival...stress higher standard of church worship
-Finze was a free thinker, not a church goer which is interesting bc the church music he wrote
-”religion should be like a weather clock” something about fixing north south east and west...blowing in the wind instead
-what speaks to him about the music is the raw emotional power, spirituality and sensuality, allows the humanist to contact this music
-sostinato***
“misa sabrenenses” Howells
-20 minutes, set in paragraphs, 7 bohr (sabranences is the nuber seven in latin)
-raw power hung on the coat hanger or ------
-creed, drama of the resurection leading oto the words “and his kingdom will have no end”, most power of English music!!!
-the heart of the matter is visionary
Lewis forman said: “the agnostics at prayer” and pieces he listed as the pieces that created this
-how shall I sing thy magesty...a singers tune
-Christ triumphant...another singers tune, great range
-RS Thomas 1913-200 Welch Poet
-a writer he’s set as a composer more than anyone
-”but” is the word that turns it all around, there are these “but” moments in the text and a but moment in the songs
-”alive” to celebrate the dioscese in Birmingham
-he conducts the Birmingham conservatory choir
Dyson and Howells
-was called the town of 100 trades
-harmed the envoronment there...it became very industrial
-alliteration lyrics for Dyson’s memorial for his father, fitness of a marriage of words and music
-listening exercise....alliteration one, drudgy and fitting for the text and the setting in which he grew up
Dyson’s Cello Sonata is soooo beautiful!!!
Howells was the first to recieve radium treatment? !
G-D a perfect 5th, canterbury pilgrims, signed this way often....how would I sign?
