Critical Review of St. Martin's Chamber Choir

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Eleanor Dickinson

Critical Review

The concert I attended was Thou Little Tiny Child: Christmas With St. Martin’s. The concert took place at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Denver on December 19. The type of music performed was choral and chamber choir music. This concert was very beautiful.

        Musical Selection 1—Coventry Carol and various arrangements

I chose this piece because, first, I really like the Coventry Carol, and second, because of how it was presented in this concert. In the concert they started with Coventry Carol, sang another song, sang a different arrangement of Coventry Carol, sang another song and so forth. I really liked the idea of using the same melody, but having different arrangements to add variety. I liked this concept quite a bit. The sound of each arrangement varied. Some had longer phrasing, and some were very concise.

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I don’t know enough about singing to describe what techniques or methods I thought the musicians used, but I do know that not a single part of the entire concert was done poorly, it sounded very good.

Musical Selection 2—Vox in Rama by Giaches de Wert

I chose to include this piece because it was something I’d never heard before and also it was very pretty. This piece seems very ancient to me, which is another appealing factor to me. In this piece, the soprano voices sing the haunting melody. The altos help to move the melody along with the harmony. ...

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