These are less songs with piano accompaniment than duets between voice and instrument, conversations that employ not only descriptive tone-painting in response to texts but also the composer's original ideas about what counterpoint should be.
(A nod of sorts to David Henry Hwang's "M. Butterfly".) Musical accompaniment is divided between a throbbing recorded electronic score by Toru Yamanaka and the live performance of Kineya Katsumatsu, who plays the traditional stringed shamisen and sings songs of love and nature from the Edo period while Mr. Masanosuke performs his dances.
The upper strings offer fluttery repeated notes that fall somewhere between accompaniment and halo.
In cross-sectional analyses, bivariate and multivariable logistic regressions models were used to examine the odds of male partner accompaniment to ANC between women with above-average versus below-average composite and dimensional empowerment scores.
The object of the competition, open to candidates of any nationality, is to compose a piece for unaccompanied choir, or for choir with organ accompaniment, for a duration between five and fifteen minutes on a short chosen text with a special meaning.
Cara Egan Reynolds's shrieks, groans, strangled breathing, isolated words and cut-off phrases played against a small band of instruments that alternated between delicate accompaniment, shattering bass drum strokes and wild melees of concerted sound.
The real magic, however, lies in the music, which slips seamlessly from Ben Foster strumming a child's acoustic guitar in his bedroom to the strains of a banjo being picked in a barroom, with linking themes blurring the boundaries between incidental accompaniment and on-set sound.
Donors with a range of attitudes to the recommendation to remove anonymity advocated the provision of counselling and support as an essential accompaniment to any contact between donors and donor-conceived people.
Charged with creating a fitting visual accompaniment, Jones says the connections between the various schools of music over the centuries will be surprising.
A different kind of ambiguity arises in the solo arias, where tensions between voice and accompaniment often conjure the desperation of the beleaguered soul.
