John Rutter

Biography

Born in London, Rutter was educated at Highgate School, where a fellow pupil was John Tavener.^[1] He read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the choir. He served as director of music at Clare College from 1975 to 1979 and led the choir to international prominence.
In 1974, Rutter visited the United States at the invitation of choral musician Melvin (Mel) Olson and conducted the premiere of his cantata "Gloria" in Omaha, Nebraska, in the Witherspoon Hall of Joslyn Art Museum. The composition, commissioned by Olson's Voices of Mel Olson chorale, has become a much-performed favourite over the years. (In the same concert, the Young People's Choir of the Midlands performed Rutter's "Five Childhood Lyrics" in its premiere US performance.)
In 1981 Rutter founded his own choir, the Cambridge Singers, which he conducts and with which he has made many recordings of sacred choral repertoire (including his own works), particularly under his own label Collegium Records. He resides at Duxford in Cambridgeshire and frequently conducts many choirs and orchestras around the world.
In 1980 he was made an honorary Fellow of Westminster Choir College, Princeton, and in 1988 a Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians. In 1996 the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred a Lambeth Doctorate of Music upon him in recognition of his contribution to church music. In 2008, he was made an honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple while playing a significant role in the 2008 Temple Festival.
From 1985 to 1992 Rutter suffered severely from myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME; or Chronic fatigue syndrome), which restricted his output; after 1985 he stopped writing music on commission, as he was unable to guarantee meeting deadlines.^[2]
Rutter also works as an arranger and editor, most notably (in his youth) of the extraordinarily successful Carols for Choirs anthology series in collaboration with Sir David Willcocks.
He was inducted as a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity in 1985.^[3][4]

Choir

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A choir, chorale, or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.
A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus. The former term is very often applied to groups affiliated with a church (whether or not they actually occupy the choir) and the second to groups that perform in theatres or concert halls, but this distinction is far from rigid. The term "Choir" has the secondary definition of a subset of an ensemble; thus one speaks of the "woodwind choir" of an orchestra, or different "choirs" of voices and/or instruments in a polychoral composition. In typical 18th to 21st century oratorios and masses, chorus or choir is usually understood to imply more than one singer per part, in contrast to the quartet of soloists also featured in these works.

Evensong in the quire of the York Minster, showing carved choirstalls.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Mozart circa 1780, by Johann Nepomuk della Croce

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ amaˈdeus ˈmoːtsaʁt], English see fn.),^[1] baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart^[2] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.
Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of Mozart's death. The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized. He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons.
Mozart learned voraciously from others, and developed a brilliance and maturity of style that encompassed the light and graceful along with the dark and passionate. His influence on subsequent Western art music is profound. Beethoven wrote his own early compositions in the shadow of Mozart, of whom Joseph Haydn wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years."^[3]

Family and early years

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl Mozart at 9 Getreidegasse in Salzburg, capital of the sovereign Archbishopric of Salzburg, in what is now Austria but, at the time, was part of the Holy Roman Empire. His only sibling to survive infancy was his elder sister Maria Anna (1751–1829), nicknamed "Nannerl". Wolfgang was baptized the day after his birth at St. Rupert's Cathedral. The baptismal record gives his name in Latinized form as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. He generally called himself "Wolfgang Amadè Mozart"^[4] as an adult, but there were many variants.
His father Leopold (1719–1787) was from Augsburg. He was deputy Kapellmeister to the court orchestra of the Archbishop of Salzburg, a minor composer, and an experienced teacher. In the year of Mozart's birth, his father published a violin textbook, Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule, which achieved success.

Teknik Bernyanyi

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Dalam dunia tarik suara kita mengenal jenis-jenis kelompok vokal seperti Duet, Trio, Kwartet, Ansambel, Paduan Suara dll. Paduan Suara sering kita saksikan pada acara-acara rutin gereja bahkan yang bersifat tahunan misalnya : Pesparawi (Pesta Paduan Suara Gerejawi), Perayaan Paskah/Natal.
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Pembinaan Paduan Suara pada umumnya bersifat temporer, artinya hanya dibentuk jika ada event yang membutuhkan dan menyewa pelatih dari luar dengan biaya yang relatif mahal. Padahal bila kita memahami trik/teknik latihan Paduan Suara sebenarnya tidak terlalu sulit dan bisa kita kerjakan sendiri. Yang penting kita bisa membuat program latihan yang baik, tentunya dengan sarana/tempat latihan yang representatif.

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Bernyanyi Acapella

Teknik bernyanyi acapella seperti ini sekarang banyak dianut oleh beberapa group musik acapella yang biasanya beraliran rohani/relligi. Sebenarnya tidak jauh beda dengan paduan suara dari segi pembagian suaranya. Tetapa dari segi personil Acapella maksimal personil berjumlah 5-7 orang. Jenis musik ini menirukan suara alat musik dengan alat alami, yaitu mulut.

teknik vocal seriosa

Teknik olah vokal (seni suara) klasik

Teknik olah vokal (seni suara) klasik


Aransemen Indonesia Raya dalam empat suara (sopran, alto, tenor, bas) untuk paduan suara campuran alias mixed choir.
Orang Indonesia rupanya makin senang bernyanyi. Lomba-lomba menyanyi baik di televisi, kampung, karaoke, sekolah, kampus, sangat marak. Setiap hari, sungguh, saya melihat banyak pengguna internet meng-google "teknik vokal yang baik dan benar" melalui blog saya.
Karena itu, tak ada salahnya kalau saya membagikan sedikit referensi tentang teknik produksi suara yang biasa dilakukan kelompok paduan suara. Anda harus berlatih secara serius, rutin, dan perlu mencari guru vokal berpengalaman jika ingin lebih matang dalam urusan teknik vokal klasik.

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