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Letters for choir

Jenkins, Hayley (2019) Letters for choir. [Composition]

Item Type: Composition

Abstract

This piece was inspired by a poem by American poet Christopher Poindexter.
The succinctness of his words, their composition and the silence that I felt between them really sounded like music to me. I wanted to re-create this poem with all the possible iterations in tone, texture, structure and hopefully meaning in all possible utterances that is possible with full choir.
The four solos help to personify the possible meanings this poem might offer to it's many readers, as we all project our own personal experience upon art, poetry and song, in our own ways. The notated whispered and spoken parts are just suggestions of utterances, it is up to the soloists themselves to speak the words in their own natural rhythms of speech so that they feel natural and from the heart.

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More Information

Depositing User: Hayley Jenkins

Identifiers

Item ID: 14905
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/14905
Official URL: https://www.hayleyjenkinscomposer.com/

Users with ORCIDS

ORCID for Hayley Jenkins: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8041-6764

Catalogue record

Date Deposited: 12 Jul 2022 10:13
Last Modified: 06 Jun 2023 02:38

Contributors

Author: Hayley Jenkins ORCID iD
Conductor: Chris Bartram

University Divisions

Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries

Subjects

Performing Arts > Music

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