Songs of ascension
- Title
- Songs of ascension [sound recording] / Meredith Monk.
- Published by
- München : ECM ; New York, NY : Manufactured and marketed by Decca Label Group, p2011.
- Author
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- Additional authors
- Description
- 1 sound disc : digital; 4 3/4 in.
- Series statement
- ECM new series
- Uniform title
- ECM new series.
- Genre/Form
- Avant-garde (Music)
- Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble.
- Contents
- Clusters 1 (3:19) -- Strand (Gathering) (1:55) -- Winter variation (1:51) -- Cloud code (3:31) -- Shift (1:51) -- Mapping (2:07) -- Summer variation (3:16) -- Vow (3:12) -- Clusters 2 (2:28) -- Falling (2:54) -- Burn (4:16) -- Strand (Inner psalm) (3:12) -- Autumn variation (2:48) -- Ledge dance (1:50) -- Traces (1:20) -- Respite (5:56) -- Mapping continued (1:29) -- Clusters 3 (2:09) -- Spring variation (4:03) -- Fathom (4:37) -- Ascent (9:26).
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Note
- Conceived as a continuous composition for 8 wordless voices, chorus, string quartet, winds, and percussion.
- All compositions by Meredith Monk except 'Vow' by Mieke van Hoek [with] Meredith Monk, percussion solos by John Hollenbeck, and 'Clusters 3' by Bohdan Hilash.
- Compact disc.
- Program notes by Kyle Gann (27 p. : col. ill.) inserted in container.
- Event (note)
- Recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, Nov. 2009.