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Stone
Composed by Jacob Narverud
Voicing: SATB with electronic track Instrumentation: optional percussion* Catalog number: AMP 1044 Price: $2.50 Music by Jacob Narverud and Ryan Main *PERCUSSION I: Water Gong, 2 Stones, Combine Disc Blade, 4 Concert Toms The text for STONE is a Haiku: a minimalist form of poetry based on a solid, concrete idea. Haiku poetry, which originated in Japan, is a form of purposeful meditation which is used by poets as a way to convey impressions and perceptions using only seventeen syllables per stanza. This particular setting of Robert Bode's Haiku is an aggressive fusion of choral, electronica, and percussion forces which utilizes the latest in digital instrumental sampling and non-traditional percussion effects (water gong, a combine disc blade, bowed crotales, stones, and a scraped tam-tam).
Haiku for STONE
Electronic Tracks
1. Accompaniment Track (no piano, with percussion) Use this track if you do not want the piano to double the voices, but you do have live percussionists. Get track 1 here. 2. Accompaniment Track (no piano, no percussion) Use this track if you do not want the piano to double the voices, and you do not have live percussionists. (see cuts in the score). Get track 2 here. 3. Accompaniment Track (with piano, with percussion) Use this track if you do want the piano to double the voices, and you do have live percussionists. Get track 3 here. 4. Accompaniment Track (with piano, no percussion) Use this track if you do want the piano to double the voices, but do not have live percussionists (see cuts in the score). There is no click-track for STONE. The conductor should use the “Electronic Horns” sound in the recording (measure 5) as a cue, and begin conducting in measure 6. It is important that the percussionists, conductor, and the choir all have monitors to hear the electronic recording and that fine attention to detail is placed on rhythmic precision and clarity of articulations throughout. Listen to a performance of STONE by the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory Concert Choir. Click here. |
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