Via cruxis : for soprano and keyboard instruments / Omar Daniel. c2004.

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Daniel, Omar, 1960-. Via cruxis : for soprano and keyboard instruments / Omar Daniel.

Via cruxis : for soprano and keyboard instruments / Omar Daniel. c2004.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61265169

"Via Cruxis (The Way of the Cross), was written for NUMUS and soprano Laura Pudwell. As a starting point for this meditation of the Passion of Jesus, I chose the text that Franz Liszt used for his 'Via Cruxis'. His composition is scored for organ or piano, choir and soloists, and uses the fourteen Stations of the Cross as the dramatic theme. My 'Via Cruxis' explores a distilled, hyper-expressive sound landscape within the structure of fifteen miniatures (a Preludium plus fourteen Stations). I used the text structure that Liszt created, and scored my work for a more compact instrumentation of keyboard instruments and soprano. The keyboard instrumentation is variable within the context of two 'families' of keyboards: 'attack-decay' and 'sustain'. At the beginning of each movement, an indication of either 'sustain keyboard' or 'attack-decay keyboard' is given. Within each of these categories, the choice of instrument is up to the performer. I used Lizst's text almost verbatim, although my 'Via Cruxis' is much shorter than his; the drama of each of the Stations of the Cross is pared down to essential gestures -- fleeting gazes upon the Passion."--p.i.

1 score (iv, 27 p.) ; 28 cm.

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