Music in a play (or to a lesser extent a musical) serves a very different purpose to music in a film or at a concert. In fact, it has a variety of purposes depending on the play that it is part of. I have based these purposes on the great book Sound and Music for the Theatre: The… Continue reading The Purposes of Theatrical Music
Author: Roman Benedict
An Agnus Dei in a Dei or Two
Well, I’m a couple of days later than promised, which isn’t very good, but I have been beavering away on a second choral composition, and have got it to a state where I can share my thoughts about it. This week’s work has been a setting of the Agnus Dei, the text of which can… Continue reading An Agnus Dei in a Dei or Two