Composers
This composer combines elements of both Western and her native Indian musical heritages.
Who is Reena Esmail?
This song is based on a true story about a red-headed bank teller who had a crush on the composers husband.
What is Jolene?
This is the only TVP spring piece with notated figured bass.
What is Alma Redemptoris Mater?
This is the piece of oldest textual origin in the spring TVP repertoire.
What is The Troparion of Kassiani?
She is the youngest composer represented in the TVP spring rep.
Who is Kerensa Briggs (born 1991)?
This composer was known as "The Sibyl of the Rhine."
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
The lyrics of this piece refer to the husking and sifting of corn.
What is Pra Peneirar?
This piece has 12 meter changes in only 42 bars.
What is Ascendens Christus?
This is the most recently composed work in the TVP spring repertoire.
What is How Did You Live (2008)?
She is the only Canadian composer in the TVP spring rep.
Who is Sarah Quartel?
Saint-Saens said of this composer, "I never imagined a woman could write such music!"
Who is Mel Bonis?
This piece is based on the philosophies of the Taos tribe of Native Americans.
This TVP 2024 song is in the Phrygian mode (natural minor with a flat 2).
What is O Virtus Sapientiae?
This song contains the translated phrase "star of the sea, help your fallen people who strive to rise."
What is Alma Redemptoris Mater?
These two TVP spring composers studied at Juilliard.
Esmail & Parker
She was the most prolific female composer of her day, possibly because she spent her entire life in a convent.
Who is Isabella Leonarda?
This piece was written to celebrate the 500th anniversary of John Sheppard's birth.
What is Media Vita?
This piece shifts modes fluidly, making it well ahead of its time in the middle ages.
What is O Frondens Virga?
Despite her successful musical career, this composer attempted to take her own life multiple times, finally succeeding at age 51.
Who is Esther Scliar?
This composer was forced into an arranged marriage with a man 22 years older, which caused her to throw herself into her music.
Who is Melanie Bonis?
This composer donated one million dollars of her personal wealth to Vanderbilt University Medical Center to help bring about the COVID vaccine in 2020.
Who is Dolly Parton?
This text has been called "Nature's Valentine Reminder": We all are tied to a lineage of love that has existed since time immemorial.
What is The Love of Thousands?
Adoro Te contains this French musical term meaning to yield or slow down.
What is cedez?
This composer is a NC native, holding a degree from UNC Chapel Hill.
Who is Gwen Macleod Hall?
This piece contains scat syllables combined with a flowing melody to explore the ability of the wind to carry us to our destination.
What is Swept Away?