Alan Bullard composer
date of birth: 04.08.1947
Alan Bullard (born 4 August 1947) is a British composer, known mainly for his choral and educational music. His compositions are regularly performed and broadcast worldwide, and they appear on a number of CDs.
Bullard acknowledges the influence of twentieth-century composers such as Benjamin Britten and Herbert Howells on his musical language, as well as that of mediaeval and renaissance music. Writers have described his music as gentle, melodic, and unfailingly well-crafted] and showing a real sense of pianistic understanding, economical and linear without sounding clichéd. Another critic has said Bullards music shows a genuine love for melodic contours and a delicate shading of a harmonic language that is respectful of tradition without being a slave to it. Of his Christmas carols, writers have said that Bullards direct tuneful language draws its chief source of inspiration from the eloquent simplicity of folk-carols and that he shows a sensitivity to the text, and vocal lines that show a natural easy flow and found his carol Glory to the Christ-Child to be a rigorous and exhilarating setting of mediaeval lyrics. And educational material such as Pianoworks (with his wife Janet as co-writer) has been welcomed as attractive, unpatronising and adult in manner.
Bullard's is not ivory tower music - what seems to please him most is to write music which performers enjoy playing and audiences enjoy hearing: music which might provide something of a challenge, but which is not out of reach. As one critic put it: He sees his role as quietly getting on with the vocation of writing music that people will want to sing and play on the everyday, as well as the special occasion.
Bullard acknowledges the influence of twentieth-century composers such as Benjamin Britten and Herbert Howells on his musical language, as well as that of mediaeval and renaissance music. Writers have described his music as gentle, melodic, and unfailingly well-crafted] and showing a real sense of pianistic understanding, economical and linear without sounding clichéd. Another critic has said Bullards music shows a genuine love for melodic contours and a delicate shading of a harmonic language that is respectful of tradition without being a slave to it. Of his Christmas carols, writers have said that Bullards direct tuneful language draws its chief source of inspiration from the eloquent simplicity of folk-carols and that he shows a sensitivity to the text, and vocal lines that show a natural easy flow and found his carol Glory to the Christ-Child to be a rigorous and exhilarating setting of mediaeval lyrics. And educational material such as Pianoworks (with his wife Janet as co-writer) has been welcomed as attractive, unpatronising and adult in manner.
Bullard's is not ivory tower music - what seems to please him most is to write music which performers enjoy playing and audiences enjoy hearing: music which might provide something of a challenge, but which is not out of reach. As one critic put it: He sees his role as quietly getting on with the vocation of writing music that people will want to sing and play on the everyday, as well as the special occasion.
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Pianoworks - Popular Styles : for piano Alan Bullard
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A Light in the Stable : Alan Bullard
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The awakening Age : Alan Bullard
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Glory to the Christ Child Alan Bullard
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Creator of the Stars of Night : Alan Bullard
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Bullard, Alan Alan Bullard
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Angel Alleluias : Alan Bullard
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A little Child there is born : Alan Bullard
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This is the Truth sent from above : Alan Bullard
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From the Break of the Day : for mixed chorus Alan Bullard
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Praise the Lord Ye Heavens adore him : Alan Bullard
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Love one another : for mixed chorus and Alan Bullard
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O come Emmanuel : for mixed chorus Alan Bullard
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The Selwyn Service : for mixed chorus Alan Bullard
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Rise up my Love : for mixed chorus a cappella Alan Bullard
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Rose of such Virtue : for mixed chorus Alan Bullard
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