Artistic Collaboration
Department
Music and Theatre
Location
Bethel University
Start Date
25-10-2023 4:00 PM
End Date
25-10-2023 5:00 PM
Description
"Filled With Light" is a poem written by Angela Shannon Preston in the form of a Villanelle. She has graciously allowed me to set her words to music to be sung by Merrin Guice Gill in an upcoming faculty recital. The strict form of the villanelle and its recurring three line stanzas led to a connection with the 12 Bar Blues form. The 19 lines of the poem are divided into three sections of six, six, and seven. These musical sections follow the harmonic structure of the Blues set in A minor.
Recommended Citation
Veenker, Jonathan, "Artistic Collaboration" (2023). Day of Scholarship. 44.
https://spark.bethel.edu/dayofscholarship/fall2023/oct25/44
Artistic Collaboration
Bethel University
"Filled With Light" is a poem written by Angela Shannon Preston in the form of a Villanelle. She has graciously allowed me to set her words to music to be sung by Merrin Guice Gill in an upcoming faculty recital. The strict form of the villanelle and its recurring three line stanzas led to a connection with the 12 Bar Blues form. The 19 lines of the poem are divided into three sections of six, six, and seven. These musical sections follow the harmonic structure of the Blues set in A minor.