Marion Beckenstein. This Requiem was written in the Spring of 2010 and dedicated to the memory of my mother who passed away in March of the same year. Texts are drawn from the traditional requiem propers in Latin, as well as Psalms ...
Marion Beckenstein. After Reich's initial experiments with phase music, he moved on to exploring pulse -- music that had no relation to melody, but would repeat phrases of either one or several notes, increasing then decreasing in volume as long as the ...
Marion Beckenstein. An important part of the folk tradition is the presence of variant forms of the same tune or text, even within the single-line melody.
Sacred and secular folk songs occupy the same musical territory: the music without the words can't tell ...
