Research Catalog

Title

Songs of ascension [sound recording] / Meredith Monk.

Author

Monk, Meredith.

Publication

München : ECM ; New York, NY : Manufactured and marketed by Decca Label Group, p2011.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Hoek, Mieke van.
• Hollenbeck, John.
• Hilash, Bohdan.
• Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble. prf
• Todd Reynolds String Quartet. prf
• M6 (Musical group) prf
• Montclair State University Singers. prf

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.

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.

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).

LCCN

• 028947643074
• 00028947643074

OCLC

• ocn713210849
• 713210849

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries