| 词条 | Storm Clouds Cantata |
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The Storm Clouds Cantata (or Storm Cloud Cantata) is a chorale by the Australian composer Arthur Benjamin. This chorale was written for the assassination scene in the Alfred Hitchcock 1934 film, The Man Who Knew Too Much, in the Royal Albert Hall. In the film version of 1934, the London Symphony Orchestra was directed by H. Wynn Reeves. In the 1956 version, however, the London Symphony Orchestra was conducted by the composer of new music for the remake of the film, Bernard Herrmann, and the chorus is the Covent Garden Opera Chorus with soloist Barbara Howitt. The Cantata can be from eight to nine minutes long. It starts with a Lento in three-quarter time in C major. The first half of the chorale is Lento, at 108 beats per minute. Then begins the Allegro agitato, characterized by rhythmic strokes of the timpani. The conclusion is very fast both in the chorus and in the orchestra. Orchestra
TextD. B. Wyndham-Lewis, The Man who Knew Too MuchSoloist: And the dark forest shook Chorus: And panic overtook each flying creature of the wild Original: ...flying creature of the wind Soloist: Around whose head screaming, The night-birds wheeled and shot away. Chorus: Finding release the storm-clouds broke. And drowned the dying moon. The storm-clouds broke — the storm clouds broke. Finding release! Addition for the 1956 remakeAround whose heads screaming The singers perform in an alternation between male and female: Finding release from that which drove them onward like their prey. This last part is part of the poco crescendo played by the Tympani to culminate in the Maestoso in the finale which ends with the cymbal crash in which the assassin shoots. PublicationThe full score of the Storm Clouds Cantata has never been published. A piano reduction of the latter half of the work was published in 2014 in the collection Music From the Hitchcock Films.[1] See also
References1. ^Music from the Hitchcock Films, arrangements by Christopher Hussey, Jeremy Birchall, and Jane Watkins, edited by Jenni Norey, London: Wise Publications, 2014. {{isbn|9781783056064}} 3 : Alfred Hitchcock|Cantatas|Film music |
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