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The online features for this issue will include audio examples for the article Sacred Bridges and also Appendices for the Willam Ferris article.
Musical Examples from "Sacred
Bridges"
by Joshua Jacobson
Note: In order
to hear the following examples, you'll need to have RealPlayer on your computer.
You might already have it, so first try clicking on one of the links to
see what happens. If you don't yet have it, a free version is available
by clicking on the image to the right (the free version is named "RealPlayer
8 Basic." They will try to get you to buy the "Plus" version
for about $30.) These examples won't work if you have an older RealPlayer
program, such as version 5.0 or earlier. You must have a more recent version,
either RealPlayer 7, 8, or RealPlayer G2.
Please make sure you have the October 2000 issue of the Choral Journal, open to page 9, in front of you. Details about each of the following examples are found in the article.
Audio Examples:
- In Exitu Israel/BeTset Yisra'el (Latin and Hebrew versions of Psalm 114 sung in alternating verses - Figures 1 and 2)
- Al Naharot bavel by Salamone Rossi (Fig. 3)
- Super Flumina by Lodovico Viadana (excerpt), followed by the bass line of Rossi's Al Naharot Bavel (excerpt - Fig. 4)
- Maoz Tsur (traditional Italian Jewish chant - Fig. 5)
- Della vita by Benedetto Marcello (Fig. 6)
- The Dance of Mantua by Giuseppino del Biabo (Fig. 10)
- Click here to view Figures 11-14
- Hatikvah, traditional melody arranged by Paul Ben-Haim (Fig. 15)
- Joshua by modest Moussorgsky (excerpt - Fig. 17)
Click here for information about Salamone Rossi.
Appendices for "A Conversation
with William Ferris (1937-2000): An Insight into the Man and the Musician"
by Lyle Stone
The appendices are presented here in Adobe PDF format, which requires the
free Acrobat Reader program. You can download a free program to read and
print PDF files by clicking on the button to the right.
The appendices include lists of the choral, operatic, orchestral, chamber, and solo keyboard works of William Ferris, along with his songs, arrangements, and a discography. Once you click on the following link and view the entire document, you might want to either print it out or even do a "File / Save" to save it to your computer for future reference.
Click Here for the Appendices to the Willam Ferris Article