section X from Divisio Spiralis (2019)

JACK Quartet

February 25th-26th, 2021, Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York
Mastering engineer: Ryan Streber
Editing/Mixing: Christopher Botta and Christopher Otto

Catherine Lamb

Divisio Spiralis X

for Oleksandr Tsyba

Nederlands Kamerorkest
Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
conductor: Alejandro Cantalapiedra

recording by NPO Radio 4

Ausschweifungen

btw i named the sound on tiktok wrong 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

mashup of america has a problem by beyoncé and liquorice by azealia banks

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The Stink Spirit - Spirited Away OST - Track #12

Sheet music at http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/167848.html

"Silang Mabele" is a traditional South African song in Tswana (a Bantu language spoken in South Africa). It translates roughly as ‘crush the corn’ (meaning ‘let’s get down to work’). This is the version of the melody and text as recalled by Joyce Keitumetse Moholoagae, who is a "tradition bearer" for The Song Collectors Collective (an organisation aimed at conserving rare oral culture, headed by folk singer Sam Lee). Her recording can be consulted for the correct pronunciation: https://soundcloud.com/song-collectors/scc-joyce-m-silang-mabele-edit

This traditional song was also used by Sotho South African songwriter and anti-apartheid protest singer Vusi Mahlasela on his eponymous third album, albeit with a different melody and approach. Vusi writes: "The song simply means getting down to work. It is a folk traditional song we sang while I was growing up. I took this song into another level by adding the message of a call for unity to fight poverty all over the world."

This arrangement starts with a simple statement of the melody, followed by a homophonic harmonization and then commences with a rhythmic setting, incorporating more and more countermelodies.

Lyrics:

Silang Mabele
Gamang dikgomo
Tsatsi le phirimile
Bana ba tshwere ke tlala
Ba tshwere ke ramatheka
Monna yo mosesane

Translation:

Crush the oats
Milk the cows
The sun is setting
Children are hungry
They are held by Ramatheka
The thin man

Silang Mabele [South-African folksong] (choir SATB) piano mockup

The epic Procession Of The Spirits soundtrack from the film Spirited Away

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Premiere performance of "clouds" by the Birch Creek Festival Orchestra (Door County, Wisconsin), Brian Groner, conductor in 1996.

clouds (1996)

Boston's Pheonix Orchestra premiere's El Jaleo, based on the John Singer Sargent painting of the same title which hangs in the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum.

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extract from 'windfell' by James Weeks, an hour-long composition for Mira Benjamin (violin & voice)

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Premiered via livestream on August at Carmoor on August 6, 2020

Conor Hanick, piano
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Recorded and mixed by Mike Tierney

Silang Mabele [South-African folksong] (choir SATB) piano mockup

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