Name: Conscience (E. Saylor & M. Wessnigk) by Wese
Duration: 1 min 13 s
Description: A new shape note style composition written by Evelyn Saylor & me. Multi-track recording, sung by these two and Cherylin MacNeil.

This multitrack recording is an experiment in using vocal ornamentation.  The bass and treble part have been slightly altered to suit the range of my voice.

SH 399t The Dying Friend - Multitrack

Set against a backdrop of the dreamy mountains of Labëria in southern Albania, Washed by the Moon, British/German filmmaker Dan Shutt’s directorial debut, is a rich journey through the region’s musical history.

Ahead of the film's premiere on 13 September at Calvert 22 Foundation, we invited Dan Shutt to compile a mix that best encapsulates the Albanian tradition of polyphonic singing.

Read more: http://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/10628/albania-ancient-polyphonic-music-mixtape-dan-shutt

The Mixtape 47: Albanian isopolyphonic singing

Experience - K. Barrans & B. Knoke

A new shape note style composition written by Evelyn Saylor & me. Multi-track recording, sung by these two and Cherylin MacNeil.

Conscience (E. Saylor & M. Wessnigk)

Marion ShH 205

Satrpialo

Netar Ars Katsi (Blessed Is The Man)

Song from Ohio 7-shape book, Warren's Minstrel, 1857.

The Sun-Bright Clime, Warren's Minstrel

Ray-mode song from Warren's Minstrel, Ohio, 1857.

Communion - Warren's Minstrel

A composition for loudspeaker orchestra featuring the voices of the Berlin Sacred Harp Singers.  Composed in 2015, premiered December 6, 2015, on the Berliner Loudspeaker Orchestra, in the Studiosaal of the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, Berlin, Germany.
evelynsaylor.com/new-prospect

Lautsprecherorchester Concert Dec 6 2015

New Prospect

Here is, I guess, my favorite piece I wrote this year, called Willow, named for a small town in the Catskills. One of my favorite pieces in the Christian Harmony is Samanthra, for how it treats these amazing words by Joseph Swain. But I always found myself singing them to my own tune, which I later harmonized into this piece. I hope it finds you well! 

Thanks for the continued support. 

As a funnier side-note, with headphones one might here light chatter in the background, which is the sound of the pizza guy getting the door while I was singing the tenor line. My roommate intercepted the confused Philadelphia man, allowing me to finish the line, however I sang just one verse!

Here is the PDF link: [ https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vPgpbr68fzqSuayEIU91_nLgd820PjF8 ]
 
The words by Joseph Swain I selected:

1. O Thou, in whose presence my soul takes delight,
On whom in affliction I call;
My comfort by day, and my song in the night,
My hope, my salvation, my all.

2. Where dost thou at noon-tide resort with thy sheep,
To feed them in pastures of love?
For why in the valley of death should I weep,
Or alone in the wilderness rove?

3.O why should I wander an alien from thee,
Or cry in the desert for bread?
Thy foes will rejoice, when my sorrows they see,
And smile at the tears I have shed.

4.His voice as the sound of a dulcimer sweet,
Is heard through the shadows of death;
The cedars of Lebanon bow at his feet,
The air is perfumed with his breath.

5.He looks, and ten thousand of angels rejoice,
And myriads wait for his word;
He speaks--and eternity, filled with his voice,
Re-echoes the praise of the her voice.

Conscience (E. Saylor & M. Wessnigk)

Wese

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