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Ballad of Heroes, Op. 14. Benjamin Britten. Voice sheet music. Choir sheet music. Piano Accompaniment sheet music.

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Ballade van Heroes, Op. 14. Benjamin Britten. Voice bladmusiek. Koor bladmusiek. Klavierbegeleiding bladmusiek.

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Ballad of Heroes, Op. 14. 1939. Vocal Score. Composed by Benjamin Britten. 1913-1976. For Choral, Chorus, Orchestra, Piano. SATB. BH Large Choral. 38 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060013935. Published by Boosey & Hawkes. HL.48008877. for tenor. or soprano. solo, chorus and orchestra. Scoring. IIpicc. , 2, ca. obIII. , 2 , cl in Eb, 2, dbl bn. bnIII. 4, 2, 3, 1. timps, 2 perc. xyl, sd, td, bd, whip, cymb. harp, strings. OFFSTAGE. 3 trumpets in C. sd. optional instruments are ca, dbl bn, offstage tpts and sd. Britten asks for the offstage instruments to be in a gallery or 'isolated position', and later to be out of sight. Text. W H Auden and Randall Swingler. Publisher. Boosey & Hawkes. Difficulty level. for chorus. This highly dramatic and rarely performed work was written for a Festival of Music for the People and first performed on 5 April 1939 at the Queen's Hall, London, conducted by Constant Lambert. It is another of Britten's passionate outbursts against the waste and horror of war which had already engulfed Europe once earlier in the century and was about to do so for the second time. The declaration of war was made on 3 September that year. His choice of texts is highly significant. He had collaborated with Randall Swingler as recently as the previous year on his short unaccompanied choral work Advance Democracy - another politically motivated piece. see separate entry. Both Swingler and Auden were aiming in their poems to goad the downtrodden Englishman into standing up and fully living the life of freedom for which their forebears fought and lost their lives. Swingler's lines which say. 'You who lean at the corner and say “We have done our best”,. To you we speak, you numberless Englishmen, To remind you of the greatness still among you. Your life is yours, for which they died'. sum up the essence of the message of the piece. The work is in three continuous movements. First comes a Funeral March. to Swingler's poem part-quoted above. , then a manic Scherzo, a Dance of Death to a rum-te-tum verse by Auden which only increases its sense of the macabre. Finally comes a slow and powerful recitative and chorale and a slow Epilogue in which the funeral march music from the opening returns. Virtually the whole of the first section of the opening movement is in unison for the chorus. The slow tread of the funeral march is given an added solemnity by this unison singing. The first ten bars are recited on a low C, the next eight bars an octave higher, and after this there is a mixture of simple harmony. more to avoid high notes for low voices. and further unison singing for the rest of the movement. The Scherzo is interesting in setting out the first three vocal parts in a kind of fugal progress. The tenors have the first complete statement in the home key. G minor. , the altos are next in the dominant but by themselves, the sopranos are next in line and back in the tonic - again by themselves, and finally the basses have the subject but this time as the basis of a canon at the unison between them and the altos. in a truncated version. Funeral March. Scherzo. Dance of Death. Recitative and Choral. Epilogue.

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Ballade van Heroes, Op. 14. 1939. Sang telling. Saamgestel deur Benjamin Britten. 1913-1976. Vir Choral, koor, orkes, klavier. SATB. BH Groot Choral. 38 bladsye. Буси. Gepubliseer deur Boosey. HL.48008877. vir tenoor. of sopraan. solo, koor en orkes. Scoring. IIpicc. , 2, ca. obIII. , 2, cl in Eb, 2, dbl miljard. bnIII. 4, 2, 3, 1. timps, 2 slagw. xyl, sd, td, bd, sweep, cymb. harp, stringe. Die verhoog. 3 trompette in C. sd. opsionele instrumente is ca, dbl miljard, die verhoog tpts en sd. Britten vra vir die buite drama instrumente te wees in 'n galery of 'geïsoleerde posisie', en later na buite sig. Teks. W H Auden en Randall Swingler. Uitgewer. Boosey. Moeilikheidsgraad. vir koor. Hierdie hoogs dramatiese en selde uitgevoer werk vir 'n fees van musiek vir die mense geskryf en vir die eerste keer op 5 April 1939 by die Queen's Hall, Londen, wat deur konstante Lambert. Dit is nog een van Britten se passievolle uitbarstings teen die afval en afgryse van die oorlog wat reeds verswelg Europa eens vroeër in die eeu en was op die punt om dit te doen vir die tweede keer. Die verklaring van die oorlog was daardie jaar op 3 September gemaak. Sy keuse van tekste is hoogs betekenisvolle. Hy het op sy kort begeleide koorwerk Advance demokrasie met Randall Swingler saam so onlangs as die vorige jaar - 'n ander polities gemotiveerde stuk. sien aparte. Beide Swingler en Auden is die doel in hul gedigte die vertrapte Engelsman te te dryf in opstaan ​​en ten volle leef die lewe van vryheid waarvoor hul voorvaders geveg en verloor hul lewens. Swingler se lyne wat sê. "Jy wat leun op die hoek en sê:" Ons het ons bes gedoen, ". Aan jou ons praat, jy ontelbare Engelse, jou te herinner aan die grootheid steeds onder julle. Jou lewe is joune, waarvoor hulle gesterf het '. som die kern van die boodskap van die stuk. Die werk is in drie deurlopende bewegings. Eerste kom 'n begrafnis Maart. te Swingler se gedig deel aangehaal bo. , Dan 'n maniese Scherzo, 'n Dans van die Dood aan 'n rum-te-doef vers Auden wat net verhoog die gevoel van die makabere. Uiteindelik kom 'n stadige en kragtige resitatief en koraal en 'n stadige Epiloog in wat die begrafnis optog musiek van die opening van opgawes. Feitlik die hele van die eerste gedeelte van die opening beweging is in harmonie vir die koor. Die stadige loopvlak van die begrafnis optog gegee 'n ekstra plegtigheid deur die harmonie sing. Die eerste tien bars opgesê op 'n lae C, die volgende agt mate 'n oktaaf ​​hoër, en daarna is daar 'n mengsel van 'n eenvoudige harmonie. meer hoë note te vermy vir lae stemme. en verder harmonie sing vir die res van die beweging. Die Scherzo is interessant in die uiteensetting van die eerste drie vokale dele in 'n soort van fugal vordering. Die tenore het die eerste volledige verklaring in die huis sleutel. G minor. Die alte is volgende in die dominante, maar deur hulself, die soprane is die volgende in lyn en terug in die tonika - weer deur hulself, en uiteindelik die basse het die onderwerp, maar hierdie keer as die basis van 'n kanon by die harmonie tussen hulle en die alte. in 'n afgekapte weergawe. Begrafnis Maart. Joke. Dans van die Dood. Resitatief en Choral. Epiloog.