Bitonality on CD Review

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  • ardcarp
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 11102

    Bitonality on CD Review

    Today's programme began with a choral CD of St Cecilia inspired choral music from the chapel choir of Royal Holloway. The extract played was MacMllan's Cecilia Virgo written for double choir, one in C and the other in D major. It is written in a sort of stile antico and I imagine its effect in a huge basilica with huge forces would be spectacular.

    BTW, two keys is not a new idea. Elgar was more daring in There is Sweet Music where the keys are just a semitone apart (A flat and G), great fun to sing.
  • rauschwerk
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 1482

    #2
    Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
    BTW, two keys is not a new idea.
    Indeed not. Ives, in Psalm 67 (1898) writes for sopranos and altos in C and for tenors and basses in B flat.

    I didn't much care for MacMillan's piece, but perhaps I should hear it again when I'm not making breakfast!

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    • ardcarp
      Late member
      • Nov 2010
      • 11102

      #3
      when I'm not making breakfast!
      That's my time for cereal music.

      You set that one up, didn't you?

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