A Child Of Our Time
COMPOSER:
Michael Tippett
PUBLISHER:
Schott Music London
PRODUCT TYPE:
Vocal Score
INSTRUMENT GROUP:
Mixed Choir
The oratorio 'A Child of Our Time' was Tippett's artistic and emotional response to the events that led to the 'Kristallnacht' pogrom of November 1938. For his oratorio Tippett used as his formal and historical models the Bach Passions and Handel's Messiah which share with this contemporary morality
Specifications
Composer | Michael Tippett |
Publisher | Schott Music London |
Instrumentation | Mixed Choir [SATB/SATB], Soloists [SATB] and Orchestra |
Product Type | Vocal Score |
Instrument Group | Mixed Choir |
Style Period | Post 1901 |
Year of Publication | 1982 |
Genre | Oratorium |
ISBN | 9781847611567 |
ISMN | 9790220100697 |
Style Period | Post 1901 |
Voicing | SATB |
No. Pages | 110 |
No. | SCHED10065 |
Description
The oratorio 'A Child of Our Time' was Tippett's artistic and emotional response to the events that led to the 'Kristallnacht' pogrom of November 1938. For his oratorio Tippett used as his formal and historical models the Bach Passions and Handel's Messiah which share with this contemporary morality the subject of the death of an individual set against the universal background of human suffering. Tippett's use of the spiritual as a contemporary equivalent for the Lutheran chorale of the Bach settings draws his audience more closely into the drama through the spirituals' 'unique verbal and musical metaphor'.
Songlist
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1. A Spiritual 2
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2. A Spiritual 3
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3. A Spiritual 4
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4. A Spiritual Of Anger
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5. A Spirtual
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6. Alto Solo
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7. Alto Solo 2
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8. Chorus 1
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9. Chorus 2
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10. Chorus 3
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11. Chorus Of The Oppressed
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12. Chorus Of The Self-Righteous
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13. Double Chorus Of Persecutors And Persecuted
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14. General Ensemble
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15. Scena