related works
First Service : for mixed choir / William Knight
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK
Canto I : for five solo voices or mixed choir a cappella, 1986 / Daan Manneke
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Vocal ensemble (2-12); Mixed choir
Scoring:
sopr sopr-m alt ten bas / GK5
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Vocal ensemble (2-12)
Scoring:
sopr alt ten bas
Opalescence : for 3 female voices and live-electronics / Kasia Glowicka
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Vocal ensemble (2-12)
Scoring:
sopr sop-m alt electronics
composition
Ombrose e care selve : for voice quintet / William Knight; Text Giovanni Battista Guarini
Other authors:
Knight, William
(Composer)
Description:
Ombrose e care selve was written to fit into an Italian madrigal programme performed by the Windsor Consort. The programme, solely comprised of text from the play Il pastor fido by Giovanni Battista Guarini, included music by Monteverdi, Marenzio, and Gastoldi. This new composition was influenced by the style employed in these Italian madrigals, following the word stresses rather than the natural inclination to stress the beginning of each bar. The music allows the singers to manipulate tempo to emphasise emotion, just as you would with an Italian madrigal. There are intentionally no dynamics and the metronome mark is only a suggestion.
William Knight