Contents • • • • • • • • History [ ] Composition [ ] In October 2000, the 16-voice choral ensemble Austin ProChorus made the debut performance of an eight-part choral work (SSAATTBB) by composer Eric Whitacre, a setting of the 1923 poem '. The work had been commissioned by attorney and professional vocalist Julia Armstrong for the ensemble as a memorial to her parents. After the work was performed by The Concordia Choir under the direction of and at the 2001 national convention of the, Whitacre learned that the Frost poem was under, and he could not publish the work before the poem's U.S. Copyright expiration in 2038 without the consent of the Frost, which refused to grant permission. Rather than give up publishing the work, Whitacre asked poet and frequent collaborator Charles Anthony Silvestri to write a new text which would correspond to the meter of the Frost poem and to the expressive details Whitacre had emphasized in the music. The next day Silvestri offered the poem Sleep, taking up the theme of sleep from the last stanza of Frost's poem.

Later developments [ ] Whitacre has stated that he prefers the Silvestri text over the original and will therefore not republish the music with the Frost poem, even after 2038. Whitacre selected the piece for his ' project in 2010, in which videos submitted by hundreds of volunteer singers were combined to produce a video representation of a combined performance. Analysis [ ] This piece is best analyzed in E flat Major. The opening progression is IV, ii, vi, V, iii, IV, (vi), Vb(4); and that is all in measures 1-4 of the piece. Whitacre does not present the tonality of the piece in a traditional way, which gives us a sort of wandering feeling as there is no obvious tonic. These chords also add to the somewhat eerie, or perhaps other-worldly atmosphere that is apparent in the music. The Imperfect Cadence in these last few measures also adds to a feeling of uncertainty. Fix Crack On Brick Wall. Agilent 16902a User Manual: Software Free Download.