Английская Википедия:Chanson à bouche fermée

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox musical composition Шаблон:Lang (Song for closed mouth), JA 039, is a composition for unaccompanied four-part choir by Jehan Alain. He wrote the music in 1933. It is to be performed with closed mouth. It was published in 1989, edited by his sister Marie-Claire Alain.

History

Jehan Alain composed Шаблон:Lang in 1933 for a four-part choir ([[SATB|Шаблон:Abbr]]), to be sung without text and with closed mouth, in the Шаблон:Ill vocal technique.Шаблон:Sfn It is one of few secular choral works by Alain.Шаблон:Sfn It was published in 1989 by Editions de la Schola Cantorum, edited by his sister, the organist Marie-Claire Alain.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Music

The music is written in G minor and common time. The duration is about three minutes.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn It has the character of a lullaby, with a gentle swing of simple melodic motifs. The first motiv has only three notes, with beginning and ending with G, the ending being a sequence of eighth-notes G-A-G-A-G.Шаблон:Sfn This characteristic figure appears in the four voices at different times and levels. The music begins softly, is carefully marked for crescendo and decrescendo and ends perdendoso, fading away.

The music is repeated, and then seems to begin another repetition, creating a sense of a "perpetual movement". The harmonies are modal, and use some distant tones for colouring.Шаблон:Sfn

Performance and recording

Chanson à bouche fermée was included in a concert program of the Maîtrise de Radio France and Maîtrise de Radio France - Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris at Notre-Dame de Paris on 17 November 2017, in a program of French choral music around 1900, including Poulenc's Litanies à la Vierge noire and Duruflé's Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens. The program was broadcast by Radio France.Шаблон:Sfn

The piece was recorded in 1999 by the Camerata Saint Louis, conducted by Georges Guillard, and in 2005 by the Ensemble Vocal Sequenza 9.3, conducted by Catherine Simonpietri. It was included in the first complete recording of Alain's vocal music. Jean Alain retrouvé : Oeuvre vocale,Шаблон:Sfn which was recorded in 2004 and released in 2005, performed by the vocal ensemble Sequenza 9.3 conducted by Catherine Simonpietri.Шаблон:Sfn

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