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Originally Posted by Ann Drysdale
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Thanks, Annie, for this link to William Walton's Facade. That is a piece I heard many years ago when I was in music college (though I've never had the opportunity to actually play it with a chamber music group).
I thought at the time — and still do — that reciting poems in rhythm (rhythmic speaking) devoid of melody was a wonderful idea. Carl Orff also experimented with the technique of rhythmic speaking.