I’m putting the finishing touches to a (slightly leftfield) feature about echoes and echo effects in music, and have covered pretty wide ground already, but would love to hear your favourite examples. I’m putting them all in a playlist that I’ll share here.
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If composed out echo effects are in scope I have a couple of attack-sustain examples in my orchestration chapters for Open Music Theory.
Britten, Sibelius, Debussy if I remember right. If that’s of interest I’ll dig up the URL for you.
Written for the girls of James Allen Girls School, where he taught: an exquisite partsong, and in its use of distant female voices a forerunner of Neptune in The Planets.