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Originally Posted by Glice
I know what you mean, I can't abide many purely melodic things... it's only really certain plainsong (that word used fairly broadly) that does it for me. I think given what you've said above, you really should check out Bruckner's Motets. I often find 'modernist' pieces (12-tone/ avant-garde) aren't really fitting for 'elegiac' music, much better to express other things. Not a hard and fast rule, by any stretch....
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gregorian chants are always nice
i like the mass for christmas day.
um...
john dunstable had some nice early motets
monteverdi was mindblowingly brilliant.
although its not a choral i highly recomend his lamtent arianna. its amazing. i am writing a report on it and it is amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFOEu...eature=related
not the full version, and if anyone is interested on reading an 8 page report in hebrew about this lament and its reprisentation of the female status in early baroque, pm me
