https://padlet.com/marklai/hmqa1gqqrdl9skvt en-us 2021-09-01 07:32:55 UTC 2026-01-06 21:43:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/marklai/hmqa1gqqrdl9skvt/wish/1709382254 Context of the piece
Miserere mei Deus secundum magnam misercordiuam tuam (Latin), translating to "Have mercy upon me, O God, after Thy great goodness", is a piece based on Psalm 51 around the 1630s. Used in the tenebrae services of "holy week", it was written and arranged by Gregorio Allegri., a Roman Catholic priest and Italian composer.

Allegri composed the piece for 9 vocals in total for 2 separate choirs, separating the two by 4 and 5 voices. It is also well known that Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus, the musical prodigy, heard the song and transcribed it from memory when he was a teenager. Making the piece even more popular than it already was due to its beautiful harmonics.


AOI1 explanation
This piece is written for Holy Week, a religious event of Catholic Christianity that occurs every April to May in memory of the 7 days leading up to Jesus's crucifixion followed by his resurrection. Within the week, the people recreate each event that happened before the death of Christ.

7 days of the Holy Week
- Palm Sunday
- Holy Monday
- Holy Tuesday
- Maundy Thursday:  the Last Supper of the Eucharist
- Good Friday: Crucifixion
- Holy Saturday (Easter Vigil): the Celebration of Jesus’ Resurrection

As a psalm written to praise the Lord and Savior for this festive, it is definitely qualified for taking its place as a piece of the first AOI

Instrumentation:
9 voices, separated into 4, and 5s typically sung without accompaniment
Choir I
SSTAB
Choir II
TTBB

Local Context:
Personally, I am not as much of a fan of holy music composed for religious purposes. However, once on a trip to Europe's music festival with my choir, we encountered a team that sang this very song inside a church. I did not immediately find the piece. It was only recently, by pure coincidence, that I came across this very song while searching church music to listen to in my leisure. Upon hearing this song, I then proceeded to identify it and research about it.

Context and reason for research and findings:
Having developed a liking for the abience and the resonance of its blending harmonies, I wanted to recreate these special sounds. With 2 individual choral voices blending and bouncing against each other. To acheive this, I would type out an original score with musical notation software (sibilius or musescore), then record the piece through DAW with stacks of my voice


Musical Elements Analysis:

ME-lody

Phrasing, motif, theme, intervals, ornamentation

ME-ter
Time signature, simple vs. complex, tempo, syncopation, anacrusis, hemiloa, syncopation, harmonic rythm,

HA-rmony
Major/minor, modes, circles of 5ths, prominence of chords, modulation

ME-dium
Instrumentation, blend, timbre

FO-rm
ABA, sections, repetition, sonata, theme & variation, tempo changes, minuet & trio

STY-le
Genre, style of how they are singing, time period, origination, composer culture


CO-mposition
Era, who the composer was, what was accepted

]]> 2021-09-01 07:45:47 UTC https://padlet.com/marklai/hmqa1gqqrdl9skvt/wish/1709382254 josephho5009 https://padlet.com/marklai/hmqa1gqqrdl9skvt/wish/1709383065 The traditional Japanese folk song is representative of Japan, as it depicts the spring of Japan, originating as an urban popular melody during the Edo period. ]]> 2021-09-01 07:46:17 UTC https://padlet.com/marklai/hmqa1gqqrdl9skvt/wish/1709383065 https://padlet.com/marklai/hmqa1gqqrdl9skvt/wish/1709384926 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYMLMj-SibU

Amazing Grace is one of the most popular hymns. It is used for both religious and secular purposes. The text is written by the English poet, John Newton, who wrote the song based on his personal experience. "Amazing Grace" delivered the message that the merciful God will forgive and redeem your sin. 

John Newton was an English Anglican cleric. He wrote this song based on his personal experience. He grew up without any particular religious conviction, but because of his pathetic life, he started to believe in God. He worked on slave ships for several years. After retiring from sea-faring, he experienced a conversion to Christianity.

]]> 2021-09-01 07:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/marklai/hmqa1gqqrdl9skvt/wish/1709384926 https://padlet.com/marklai/hmqa1gqqrdl9skvt/wish/1709386104 https://youtu.be/1NNy289k6Oc

This song is a religious song for Christians, so it is a cultural piece. I will choose this song because it is a well know song for people and it is a song that can experiment easily (I think).
It is a global context.]]> 2021-09-01 07:48:20 UTC https://padlet.com/marklai/hmqa1gqqrdl9skvt/wish/1709386104 bradkang02048 https://padlet.com/marklai/hmqa1gqqrdl9skvt/wish/1709391770 It's a global context
This music is from Oliver Shanti (from the CD "Tai Chi")
this is Shinto(神道教）, which is a religion of japan, and the music is they use for worshiping and entertaining their God is simply called Shinto Music. 
The origin myth about Shinto is the erotic dance of Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto which lured Amaterasu from her cave, which Shinto is often performed with "Fujo" (巫女) or "miko"(神子）
Shinto music includes eight forms that may be traced back to the eighth century: kagura-Uta (kagura songs), Azuma Asobi (eastern entertainment), kume-Uta (palace guard songs) ō-Uta (big songs), onaibi-uta (night duty songs), ruika (funeral songs), ta-uta (field songs), and yamato-uta (Yamato songs)
Instruments
- wagon (和琴)               - tsuzumi (鼓)
- kagura-bue (神楽笛)   - shakubyōshi (笏拍子) 
- hichiriki (篳篥)             - kane (鉦)
- suzu (鈴)                      - binzasara (編木)
- taiko (太鼓)
it's often performed outside, near nature (for example on a mountain or near a forest) due to Shinto


]]> 2021-09-01 07:51:52 UTC https://padlet.com/marklai/hmqa1gqqrdl9skvt/wish/1709391770 bellelee0045 https://padlet.com/marklai/hmqa1gqqrdl9skvt/wish/1709403137 2021-09-01 07:58:59 UTC https://padlet.com/marklai/hmqa1gqqrdl9skvt/wish/1709403137 edwardhsieh5011 https://padlet.com/marklai/hmqa1gqqrdl9skvt/wish/1709417634 Context
This piece was excerpted from Tchaikovsky's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 41, an a cappella choir work using lyrics of sacred text produced by Saint John Chrysostom, who was the Archbishop of Constantinople in the 5th century of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the second largest Christian church. The composition was created in 1978.

Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom consists of 15 movements, lasting around 50 minutes. Hymn of the Cherubim (or the Cherubic Hymn) is 98 bars, and lasts around eight minutes.

Despite being known for his ballets, symphonies and concertos, Tchaikovsky held the liturgy of the Russian Orthodox Church in high regard, and showed interest in producing his own in his letter to Nadezhda von Meck. This was documented in the biography "The Life and Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky".

Source:
https://thelistenersclub.com/2019/07/10/tchaikovskys-hymn-of-the-cherubim-a-celestial-meditation/
http://en.tchaikovsky-research.net/pages/Liturgy_of_Saint_John_Chrysostom

Instrumentation
15 unaccompanied voices (SATB)

Why it is AOI 1
The hymn represents the Christians' culture and beliefs, and their appraisal of the Lord.

Reason
Despite not being a Christian myself, or a person of any faith really, I have always been a fan of religious hymns, they are nothing short of angelic and beautiful, and how their complicated chord progressions achieve that effect interests me. So through this experiment, I wish to understand hymns a bit more as well as improve my grasp of chord progression's general concept.]]> 2021-09-01 08:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/marklai/hmqa1gqqrdl9skvt/wish/1709417634 williamli5043 https://padlet.com/marklai/hmqa1gqqrdl9skvt/wish/1714179992 2021-09-03 01:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/marklai/hmqa1gqqrdl9skvt/wish/1714179992