His second, in 1959, was to use moaning and wailing gospel-choir techniques in a song called "What'd I Say?" to suggest the sexual play between a woman and a man.
During the concerts, choir members will talk about the techniques of playing the handbells, like shaking, using mallets and tapping the bells on tables.
Mr. Ericson insists that it is a choir's repertory that shapes its technique and sound.
"While you are away, my heart comes undone, slowly unravels in a ball of yarn" she sing-speaks, replicating the vocal technique used by Icelandic choir men for centuries before.
His Ascension Day Anthem (St Paul's Cathedral) is now a standard item; his unfinished piece for the Gloucester Cathedral choir a monument to his vision and technique.
There's a whole different technique to singing in a choir, which I was never able to get enough of.
The system of rib vaulting in the choir was the earliest use of that technique in Europe.
She uses different instruments and techniques including piano, orchestra, gospel choirs, guitars, traditional Japanese strings, music boxes, and effects such as yells, claps, and scratching.
The winning piece, "Partita," a rousing post-minimalist mix of musical styles and vocal techniques, will be performed by the adventurous chamber choir that commissioned it, along with music by Holly Herndon.
She learned the theory and techniques of the craft from one Carl Stough, a former choir master and musician who taught his singers to breathe deeply and then adapted the technique for others in salvaging the voices of emphysema patients at a Veterans Affairs hospital in New Haven, Conn.
Additionally, it features an overdubbing of Brandy's vocals to create a chorus effect, a recording technique in which her lone voice produces the illusion of a choir singing harmonies during the choruses.
