• Cycle for Declamation is a song cycle for tenor solo composed in 1954 by Priaulx Rainier (1903–86). The work was commissioned by the tenor Peter Pears...
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    also been set to music. In 1954, Priaulx Rainier set some in her Cycle for Declamation for solo voice. In 2009, the American Jennifer Higdon composed the...
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  • Meditation XIV. Priaulx Rainier's 1954 song cycle Cycle for Declamation consists of musical settings for solo tenor of short extracts from three of the...
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  • written for her by David Gascoyne in 1938–1940 in Paris and dedicated to future victims of war. Pears also commissioned Rainier's Cycle for Declamation (1954)...
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  • Scintilla for solo cello (2003) David Sampson Three Arguments for unaccompanied cello (1993) Ruben Sarkisjan Cercio Ceclamando (Cycle of Declamations) for solo...
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  • Pulses (Music for 18 Musicians) 28 Jun 2015 Rachel Nicholson John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine Priaulx Rainier Cycle for declamation W. A. Mozart...
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  • Melodeclamation (from Greek “melos” = song, and Latin “declamatio” = declamation) was a chiefly 19th century practice of reciting poetry while accompanied...
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    dwarf's agonised, self-pitying monologue ("Am I now free?") ends with his declamation of the "Curse" motif – "one of the most sinister musical ideas ever to...
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    The Book of the Hanging Gardens (category Song cycles by Arnold Schoenberg)
    irredeemable present." Moods are conveyed though harmony, texture, tempo, and declamation. The 'inner meaning,' if in fact there is to be found, is the music itself...
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    (2 women's voices and piano) (1851) Op. 104, 7 Lieder (1851) Op. 106, Declamation with piano, "Schön Hedwig" (1849) Op. 107, 6 Gesänge (1851–52) Op. 114...
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