Thou Wilt Keep Him in Perfect Peace – Wesley

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   Ronnie2839 on 2013-05-01 at 7:40 PM

   I am? convinced that the Altos have an amazing line through the entire work, but are dramatically overpowered by the other four voices.

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   richard meredith on 2013-05-01 at 7:43 PM

   I’m having this at my? funeral.

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   JamesHutchingsable on 2013-05-01 at 8:13 PM

   the end makes? me jizz every time. fact

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   TheKplmstr on 2013-05-01 at 8:39 PM

   This sublime piece will be performed by my choir on All Saints. I? arranged it for SATB instead of five parts. Izzibaggs, don’t worry about your colleagues and professors who belittle tonal compositions. No one will ever have heard of them in 100 years. Have you read Alex Ross’s “All the Rest is Noise”? Almost everything since 1950 has been nothing but noise.

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   CaptainPedant on 2013-05-01 at 8:41 PM

   That takes me back 36 years if it’s a day. We divided our school choir SATBB for this not SATTB and I sang first bass on that? occasion. Haven’t heard it since, so thank you!

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   waldenhouse on 2013-05-01 at 9:30 PM

   Write what YOU want to write; there’ll always be some ‘clever’ sod wanting to correct you. My College Lecturer admonished me in my report by writing “it’s too early to try and emulate the Germans at this? stage” – very encouraging? I left the year after.

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   alphabet661 on 2013-05-01 at 9:50 PM

   Ah, correction college and presently some advanced topic in? music theory. I also compose music. Feel free to chek out my pieces. Oh, and I don’t know of too many high schools which teach music theory that extends beyond reading clefs, knowing the major minor scales and maybe identifying I IV V …

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   Ronnie2839 on 2013-05-01 at 10:21 PM

   Spoken like somebody? who took theory in high school. XD

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   alphabet661 on 2013-05-01 at 11:17 PM

   ACtually SS Wesley was already pushing the envelope – albeit modestly and adhering to traditional rules of voice leading – in such pieces For example in the last bars, the augmented chords and suspension that delay the move to the dominant and ending. Also great is SS Wesley’s cadence on? the III and without any intervening chords resumes on the I of major. Though he does everything in accordance to the practice of his times, you see him really pushing it in interesting directions.

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    amicus1766 on 2013-05-02 at 12:14 AM

    Oh, izzybaggs, hang in there, tonal music is slowly reconquering the world, they are the dinosaurs. Man and woman were meant to soar up on wings of song. Study the greats, emulate them, find your own voice and give the world? beauty and truth.

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    Curtis Maurand on 2013-05-02 at 1:13 AM

    I’m with? you. If you expect your music to be performed more than once, it has to be accessible to the audience/congregation. We’re performing this piece a week from Sunday at St. Luke’s Cathedral in Portland, Maine.

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    paradiddleday on 2013-05-02 at 1:29 AM

    BTW, does anyone have a performace of the Goss setting of Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem they could post??

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    paradiddleday on 2013-05-02 at 1:50 AM

    We sang this in our parish choir about 25 years ago. But try to get them? to do something like this now! lol

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    bachlover99 on 2013-05-02 at 2:43 AM

    Not sure about your assumptions here – but for my money. There is a clear “tune” which is divided among the upper and lower parts – the lower when they sing alone – otherwise mostly with the top part. But when the do join in perfect harmony (about 3/4 of the way through) the “line” goes from one part to another, and that is the beauty? of choral music at its best.

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    written12 on 2013-05-02 at 3:16 AM

    A beautiful piece.
    A question from someone less musically astute and informed than many of you who’ve posted here: I know you can’t subtract any of the voices and? still have anything like the full effect; it’s not a song with backing harmonies. But still, isn’t there a base melody here? If so, which voice carries it?

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    bachlover99 on 2013-05-02 at 4:02 AM

    Dear izzybaggs,

    Srick with it, you are right. Tonal music appeals to? the soul, it comes from the heavens. Atonal music is an invention of man perhaps to try to prove he can improve on nature.

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    MissMalone1992 on 2013-05-02 at 4:16 AM

    Thanks soooo much? for uploading all these!!

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    choirboyfromhell1 on 2013-05-02 at 4:18 AM

    Thanks.
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    morphthing1 on 2013-05-02 at 4:26 AM

    St Alban the? Martyr, Holborn, London

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    choirboyfromhell1 on 2013-05-02 at 4:40 AM

    Wonderful chromatic writing, as always with SS Wesley. Where is the church? that this was performed? An equally sweet romantic English instrument as well..

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    dudeirock555 on 2013-05-02 at 5:20 AM

    thank you for posting this and? all of them thunbs up if you heard the crusafiction

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    raspi093 on 2013-05-02 at 6:18 AM

    hi there, i understand you, i am also composition student in luxembourg, competely tonal as you, my teacher? being atonal and even worse 🙂

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    izzybaggs on 2013-05-02 at 7:01 AM

    What passion. I’m a music composition student at MSCD in Denver. I get so much flack for being a tonal composer from the other students and even one of the professors. It’s pieces like this (and moments like 2:47 – 2:59) that make me want to tell? them where to shove their annoying atonal, serialist views. Long live chorale writing!!!!

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    waldenhouse on 2013-05-02 at 7:31 AM

    A little slow for my liking, but the sentiment was passed? very well.

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