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Songs of ascension

Title
  1. Songs of ascension [sound recording] / Meredith Monk.
Published by
  1. München : ECM ; New York, NY : Manufactured and marketed by Decca Label Group, p2011.
Author
  1. Monk, Meredith.

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Additional authors
  1. Hoek, Mieke van.
  2. Hollenbeck, John.
  3. Hilash, Bohdan.
  4. Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble. prf
  5. Todd Reynolds String Quartet. prf
  6. M6 (Musical group) prf
  7. Montclair State University Singers. prf
Description
  1. 1 sound disc : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Series statement
  1. ECM new series
Uniform title
  1. ECM new series.
Genre/Form
  1. Avant-garde (Music)
  2. Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble.
Contents
  1. 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
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. Conceived as a continuous composition for 8 wordless voices, chorus, string quartet, winds, and percussion.
  2. 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.
  3. Compact disc.
  4. Program notes by Kyle Gann (27 p. : col. ill.) inserted in container.
Event (note)
  1. Recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, Nov. 2009.