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REVIEWS AND MEDIA
Rice, in the tradition of JosquinDePrez and perhaps even Henry Purcell, uses word painting – a technique first used by Renaissance composers to musically score (similar to film scoring) texts so as to give the declamations more meaning by way of musical color and sound inflection – to enhance each word, each sentence, each of the thirty-six stations.
I knew from the opening trumpet fanfare that this was going to be a deep, powerful, important, lasting work.
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