Blog Assignment #5

The piece of music I chose is called “Sleep” by Eric Whitacre. I chose this piece of music because I have been in a choir that performed it and I love the chords and the word- music relationship that Whitacre was able to create. The version I picked is the choir without any accompaniment. Even though the texture is created with just the voices, it is very complicated and it varies greatly throughout the piece. With 8 different voice parts in most of the piece, the texture is mostly homophonic and polyphonic at some points. However, there are places where just one voice part is singing one melody so it is monophonic in those places. The range of the melody in this piece is huge because of the amount of voice parts.