Anchorage by Flannery Cunningham - Voices of Silicon Valley скачать в хорошем качестве

Anchorage by Flannery Cunningham - Voices of Silicon Valley

Anchorage uses a shimmering texture of overtones as a background to cyclical passages of text in which singers voice repeating phrases with differing numbers of syllables. The text is a mixture of Flannery's own writing and a revised version of the text for the Sacred Harp tune "Prospect". The melody employed here is not the melody of "Prospect," but altered versions of the first and second verse. A rhyming (or loosely rhyming) word is embedded in each phrase, and the phrases cycle against each other until all phrases land on the rhyming word in unison. Between these polytextual sections, the ensemble delivers more declamatory sections drawing on the harmonic and voice leading patterns of Sacred Harp singing. Visit Voices of Silicon Valley at www.voices-sv.org