Partita for 8 Voices

Partita for 8 Voices is an a cappella composition by the American composer Caroline Shaw. It was composed from 2009 through 2012 for the vocal group Roomful of Teeth and was released on their Grammy Award-winning debut album October 30, 2012.[1][2][3] The piece was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music on April 15, 2013, making Shaw the youngest recipient of the award.[4][5][6][7] The work was not premiered in full until November 4, 2013, at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City.[8]

Composition

Movements

Partita for 8 Voices has a duration of roughly 25 minutes and is composed in four movements named for Baroque dances:

  1. Allemande
  2. Sarabande
  3. Courante
  4. Passacaglia

Reception

At the premiere of the complete Partita for 8 Voices, Justin Davidson of New York wrote that Shaw had "discovered a lode of the rarest commodity in contemporary music: joy."[9]

In October 2019, several performers of katajjaq, including Canadian Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq, accused Caroline Shaw and Roomful of Teeth of having engaged in cultural appropriation and exoticism for the perceived uncredited quotation of a katajjaq song in the third movement of Partita.[10][11][12] In a public statement released by Caroline Shaw and artistic director Brad Wells, Roomful of Teeth acknowledged that it had hired and studied with Inuit singers in 2010 and that techniques learned from those studies had been used in Partita but said that they believed those "patterns to be sufficiently distinct from katajjaq."[13][14]

References
  1. Deemer, Rob (April 19, 2013). "Caroline". NewMusicBox. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
  2. "A Moment With Pulitzer-Winning Composer Caroline Shaw". Deceptive Cadence. NPR. April 20, 2013. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
  3. Huizenga, Tom (January 27, 2014). "New Music Shines at Classical Grammy Awards". Deceptive Cadence. NPR. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
  4. Tsioulcas, Anastasia (April 15, 2013). "Caroline Shaw, 30, Wins Pulitzer For Music". Deceptive Cadence. NPR. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
  5. Fetters, Ashley (April 16, 2013). "Hear the Weird, Lovely A Cappella Suite That Won the Pulitzer Prize for Music". The Atlantic. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
  6. Lowder, J. Bryan (April 17, 2013). "The Strange, Beautiful Music That Won the Pulitzer This Year". Slate. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
  7. Woolfe, Zachary (April 17, 2013). "With Pulitzer, She Became a Composer: Caroline Shaw, Award-Winning Composer". The New York Times. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
  8. Tommasini, Anthony (November 5, 2013). "The Pulitzer Prize Was Nice and All, but a Work Is Finally Fully Heard: Caroline Shaw's 'Partita' Has Premiere by Roomful of Teeth". The New York Times. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
  9. Davidson, Justin (November 10, 2013). "An Avant-Garde That's Easy to Love: Three heartening moments from the new-music scene". New York. Retrieved June 7, 2015.
  10. DeGeorge, Krestia (2019-10-23). "Acclaimed American choir slammed for use of Inuit throat singing". Arctic Today. Retrieved 2019-10-26.
  11. News, Nunatsiaq (2019-10-23). "Acclaimed American choir slammed for use of Inuit throat singing". Nunatsiaq News. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  12. "'Roomful Of Teeth' On Experimenting With The Human Voice, Refocusing Their Mission". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  13. Wells, Brad; Shaw, Carolin. "Public Statement". Scribd. Retrieved 2019-10-26.
  14. dubuquecello (2019-11-30). "What's mine is mine, what's yours is …". Classical Dark Arts. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
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