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- Homework :-)
- Notes on the pieces as they were rehearsed. These are things that Christina said about the pieces (their place in the show, the feeling she wants from them, how to rehearse them etc.)
Memorization / Homework from Sept 8th
- Memorize Warrior for Sept 15 – do NOT listen to the recording while working on this piece
- Ave Maria – bottom parts, find and look at your patterns so you don’t get lost.
- Listen to Revontulet (Christina will send a link to the recording on SoundCloud) – bear in mind that this is a children’s chorus, so we don’t want to mimic their tone, just their precision!
- Please let us know for sure this week if you are available for the Critical Care Pediatric Nurses’ Conference on September 24th from 2 – 4pm in the World Trade and Convention Centre. Rep : One Voice, and Farewell to Nova Scotia.
- Listen to Christina pronouncing the Swedish in I himmelen and make notes in your scores. Come ready to sing this in Swedish next week.
- Solo audition next week for Magnificat - learn the first page up to the word ‘Dominum' There is a recording on Facebook for reference.
- Be sure to get the emphasis markings for Illumina le tenebre.
- There are some breath markings and accidental in From Ash You Rise to check. Note the meter change at the bottom of page 5.
- Meet with someone from your part to go over the movement in I himmelen
I himmelen
Special standing order for
rehearsing this piece – see diagram (soon to come!)
Tutti from the beginning to
measure 19, everyone in unison.
From 19-29, regular parts
(all on Large Choir line)
Bottom of page 4, Small Choir
splits off onto their own lines (in the small choir, Sop 2a takes the top line)
Watch the double accents
(e.g. bottom of page 4)
Warrior
Mimic the feeling of the Wyrd
Sisters
Sop 2 is the lead voice –
warm full sound from the Sop 2s, lighter from the Sop 1s
Swing the “of” and the “hood”
– e.g.measure 9 & 16 – each time that figure comes around, regardless of
the word that is being sung.
Keep the energy moving
through the rests
Verse 1 – quiet and
withdrawn, womanhood means not being able to fight, defeated and hurt
Verse 2 – rejecting
womanhood, quietly angry, heavier emphasis on the consonants
Verse 3 – sense of resolution,
powerful, make a lot of the words that are different in the chorus this time
around. At the end (on the repeated text) it becomes soft again, slightly
retrospective
Pseudo-Yoik Lite
The melody is the pattern that occurs in the S2 & A1
parts at the start of the piece.
Whenever that pattern comes back, it takes the lead, the other parts are
background.
Vowel change over long notes happens the full beat before
the end of the held note.
Royals
Practice with the Lorde arrangement on the recording.
Some changes to the score (added & removed notes, some
word changes) please make note of these.
Lots of attitude.
Ave Maria
Top two lines are the melody; bottom parts are rhythm and
agitation.
Kallie moves to S1b (S2 as written in the score) for this
piece
Revontulet
Measures 1-5 all parts should sing the same words as the
Soprano line.
Measures 6-8, same words as the Sopranos. Measures 9 &
10 exactly as written.
Vem kan
segla forutan vind
The tune for this song gets passed around from part to part.
Make sure you know where you have melody, and where you have supporting parts.
Ice
Sop 1 A, Sop 2 A, Alto A – Sing the top three lines (Choir
1)
Sop 1 B, Sop 2 B, Alto B – Sing the bottom three lines
(Choir 2)
Illumina
le tenebre
Andromeda’s prayer after being chained to the rock.
This will be a regular 4-part split, with Altos all singing
the bottom line at the start, and then splitting at the bottom of the second
page into Alto 1 & 2.
Translation :
All-highest, glorious God cast your light into the darkness of my heart.
Give me right faith, firm hope, perfect charity and profound humility. Lord
give me wisdom and perception so that I may do what is your will.
From Ash You Rise
Orpheus’
story of losing his love.
Be
sure to lift slightly between ‘ash’ and ‘at’.
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