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The Bells
A setting of the poem by Edgar Allan Poe
Gustav Hoyer
THE BELLS demands a choir that is not afraid to embrace Poe's use of onomatopoeia and the use of syllables as pure timbre. The layering of parts requires that the text and leading lines be brought out in sharp relief against the … Read More
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THE BELLS demands a choir that is not afraid to embrace Poe's use of onomatopoeia and the use of syllables as pure timbre. The layering of parts requires that the text and leading lines be brought out in sharp relief against the accompanying choral background. Each of the movements begins with an introduction built on isolated words or syllables before the start of the text proper, in order to capture the mood and tone of each section of the poem: merriment, romantic rapture, frenzied chaos, ever-accumulating death. The poem's four sections evoke the arc of life: childhood, early adulthood, later adulthood, old age. It is a masterpiece of American poetic imagination, and I hope that my treatment will challenge choral artists to recreate its contemplations in multi-layered tapestries of vocal beauty.