African Sanctus & Dona Nobis Pacem - Album
African Sanctus & Dona Nobis Pacem (Album) by David Fanshawe
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David Fanshawe Born 1942 In Paignton England - 5 July 2010 Was An English Composer And Ethnomusicologist. His Work Is Situated At The Crossroads Of Traditional And Modern Music Disambiguation Needed . His Best-Known Composition Is The 1972 Choral Work African Sanctus. Educated At St George's School Windsor Castle And Stowe School He Started His Career As A Musician And Producer For Documentary Films. He Studied Composition Under John Lambert At The Royal College Of Music. He Became Widely Known With Composition Of Choral Works. Besides Vocal Pieces He Also Composed The Score For More Than 50 Films And TV Productions.
During A Ten-Year Odyssey Across The Islands Of The Pacific Ocean Begun In 1978 He Collected Several Thousand Hours Of Indigenous Music And Documented The Music And Oral Traditions Of Polynesia Micronesia And Melanesia In Journals And Photographs. He Lived In Wiltshire In England And Died On 5 July 2010 From A Stroke.
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Biography - David Fanshawe
David Fanshawe Born 1942 In Paignton England - 5 July 2010 Was An English Composer And Ethnomusicologist. His Work Is Situated At The Crossroads Of Traditional And Modern Music Disambiguation Needed . His Best-Known Composition Is The 1972 Choral Work African Sanctus. Educated At St George's School Windsor Castle And Stowe School He Started His Career As A Musician And Producer For Documentary Films. He Studied Composition Under John Lambert At The Royal College Of Music. He Became Widely Known With Composition Of Choral Works. Besides Vocal Pieces He Also Composed The Score For More Than 50 Films And TV Productions.
During A Ten-Year Odyssey Across The Islands Of The Pacific Ocean Begun In 1978 He Collected Several Thousand Hours Of Indigenous Music And Documented The Music And Oral Traditions Of Polynesia Micronesia And Melanesia In Journals And Photographs. He Lived In Wiltshire In England And Died On 5 July 2010 From A Stroke. read less
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During A Ten-Year Odyssey Across The Islands Of The Pacific Ocean Begun In 1978 He Collected Several Thousand Hours Of Indigenous Music And Documented The Music And Oral Traditions Of Polynesia Micronesia And Melanesia In Journals And Photographs. He Lived In Wiltshire In England And Died On 5 July 2010 From A Stroke. read less
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Published: 08 Aug 2010, 16:34
David Fanshawe Was A British Composer/ethnomusicologist/explorer Who Spent Much Of His Life Recording Indigenous Music Throughout Africa And In Other Music-Rich Unrecorded Cultures. He Literally Carried A Recording Device Through The Jungles Across Prairies And Deserts And Into The Undocumented Cultures Of Numerous South Pacific Islands For Decades In Pre-PC Years 60s 70s 80s . In The Earliest Years This Meant Hauling Reel-To-Reel Recording Devices And Numerous Reels Of Tape While Wading Through Rivers Chopping A Way Through Uncharted Tropics And Crossing Blistering Deserts. As He Would Reach A Port From Which He Could Ship The Individual Recordings--With No Back-Up Copies -- Would Be Forwarded To His Home Base To Be Codified And Held For His Occasional Returns To His Home In The UK. Fanshawe's Primary Purpose Always Was To Make A Permanent Record Of Traditional Indigenous Music Of Tribes And Cultures Before Those Cultures Perished Or Before Their Contact With The Outside World Tainted Or Diluted Or Completely Supplanted Those Individual Musical Traditions. Although Fanshawe Was A Much Respected And Prolific Composer For Many Voices And Instruments AFRICAN SANCTUS Is Certain To Be The Composition For Which He Is Most Remembered. This Towering Choral Work Combines The Traditional Catholic Mass With Melodies Drums And Other Recorded Sounds -- Even Natural Ones Like The Sound Of Monsoon Rains -- From His African Recordings. The Result Is A Truly Unique Creation That Weaves The Choir And The Actual Recordings Of Traditional Music And Natural Sounds Into A Wholly New Cloth. This Work Is Fresh Spiritual Inspirational Thrilling Deeply Meditative Nourishing And Ultimately Transporting As The Synthesized Combination Of Ancient Music And Contemporary Religious Choral Composition Strikes Deep Human Chords In Listeners Regardless Of Their Music Or Ethnic Or Cultural Backgrounds. David Fanshawe Passed Away Of A Stroke On July 5 2010 At The Age Of 68.