Diehnelt: Stile Antico for 5-voice cello ensemble is currently unavailable

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String Quintet Cello - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.809059 Composed by Kim Diehnelt. Baroque,Concert,Contemporary. 10 pages. Kim Diehnelt #4350647. Published by Kim Diehnelt (A0.809059). Stile Antico: On a theme of Palestrina (2012) for 5-voice cello ensemble The title Stile Antico  refers a style of musical composition from the 16th century which  was often employed in church music, because it allowed the words (sacred text)  of each singer to be clearly heard. This pre-classical polyphony was  many-voiced and without instrumental accompaniment. Inspired by a theme from a mass by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina  (c. 1525 – 1594) ‘Praestet hoc nati genitor, I present a modern cello ensemble rendition of this ‘ancient  style.’ Most conspicuous of the work’s attributes is the use of  time. Rather than moving the musical ideas and themes towards a goal or through  structural development and a sense of progress, the music (and time) unfolds  perhaps as the natural swing of a pendulum; neither clinging to a past, nor  anticipating a future. The listener beholds one moment continuously being  reshaped through sound. Also, the concepts of melody and harmony as we assume them  today are blurred. Of the five players, no one has the melody, no one has the  harmony, yet together the ensemble combines to create a continuous flux of  melodic-harmony (or harmonic-melody). This idea is of another type of ‘stile  antico.’ Within the ideas of alchemy, which richly influenced the music of the 16th   century and beyond, exists the concept that "one plus one equals three." That  is, two objects also create a ‘between-ness.’ So too with musical voices; the  combination of two voices creates a new between-ness. Through out this work the  individual cellists create a continuously shifting canvas of ‘between-ness.’ The  music and the performers ask for a renewed perception of the many between-nesses  of our present moment. www.kimdiehnelt.com(c) 2012 (ASCAP) This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard’s global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds. About Digital Downloads Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music, you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and you don’t have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play! PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).