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"Creepy Chorale"
| GENERAL INFORMATION | |
|---|---|
| Title | Creepy Chorale |
| Composer | F.G.J. Absil |
| Instrum, | Organ, choir and orchestra (orchestrated in 2006) |
| Date | 3 February 1989 |
| Duration | 6'20 |
| Style | Andante - Suspense (Film Music) |
| Key | C |
| Meter | 4/4 |
| Measures | 144 |
| Tempo | 92 BPM |
FULL INSTRUMENTATION
- Church Organ;
- Choir (SATB) or Electronic Keyboard (with Synthesizer Voices);
- 2 Flutes, 2 Clarinets in Bb, Bass Clarinet;
- Timpani, Mallets (Bass Marimba and Glockenspiel), Harpsichord, 2 Percussion Players (Bass Drum, Low Tom, Tam-Tam, Triangle, Woodblock);
- Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Violoncello, Double Bass).
NOTES FOR THE PERFORMER
Creepy Choraleis a sequence for a suspense movie. It has a number of sections for church organ solo in traditional 4-part chorale style (play with lots of reverb, cathedral atmosphere). Using a cross-fade, a 4-part choir (optionally played by electronic keyboard with synthvoice pad) takes over with a more dissonant vocalise of the same chorale (using a geometrical expansion technique). As a third layer there are intermediary sections for harpsichord, marimba, percussion, woodwinds and strings (tremolo, pizzicato) in highly dissonant style (using pitch set techniques) with the organ adding brief accents.
In the mix a number of sound effects is required: adaptation of the reverb time (from very long for cathedral sections to intermediate for concert hall atmosphere), flanging and phasing (in order to achieve a mysterious and sinister choir and orchestral sound) and echo effects (for pizzicato strings).