Title
Document Type
Creative Work
ANZSRC / FoR Code
1904 PERFORMING ARTS AND CREATIVE WRITING
COinS
Creative Work
1904 PERFORMING ARTS AND CREATIVE WRITING
Publication Details
Schultz, A. N. (2004). Song of Songs: For 6 Live Solo Voices, 12 Recorded Voices with Pre-recorded Percussion and Prepared Piano. [Printed publication] Commissioned by The Song Company and ABC Radio. Libretto by Barry Hill (pp. 1-147) :Grosvenor Place, Sydney, NSW Australian Music Centre. ISMN: M-67300-146-6.
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RESEARCH IMPACT STATEMENT
Research Background
Song of Songs is a large scale work commissioned by The Song Company and ABC Radio, The Listening Room, for The Song Company’s twentieth birthday.
Research Contribution
Song of Songs is a 5 movement, 40 minute work for six live voices, 12 pre-recorded voices, percussion and piano. It is composed in two versions – live performance and radiophonic version. The work uses prerecorded voices and instruments and live singers to create a spatial tapestry that explores the sensual and dramatic elements of the text. The work is the setting of a modern recrafting by the Melbourne poet Barry Hill of the original biblical text, and represents a novel creation in the world of choral sound.
Research Significance
• First Performance: The Song Company, conductor Roland Peelman, Sydney Opera House, May 2004
• Radiophonic version nationally broadcast, ABC Radio
• Finalist, AMC-APRA, Composition of the Year, 2005
• CD recording – Vocal Music of Andrew Schultz, The Song Company (Songworks, Sydney)