Rudsamblog

Notes courtesy of Robin (as he reminded himself to do them in the notes he took! He also mentioned Chris looks like a rock hopper, or gentoo, penguin) [No, Susan pointed that out. Ed.]

Ollie warmed us up with some strange dancing and even more strange arpeggios which went higher and higher and staccato..

Praebsanol This song will be off by heart
*Chris be quiet
Alison - do the men sing the tune in verse 2? Yes they do.
crown not pound
Watch out for the camel - quaver, crotchet; not crotchet, quaver
Men */ferment/*at bar 30
When practising at home try weening yourselves off the copy. Will try to sing it regularly in rehearsals and ween us off the copies.

The Lamb (bless it!)
It's getting better
Should start beautiful and lovely. Sops Don't come in like a foghorn.
It's a very religious piece, think about why someone would have written a piece like this. It is quite ethereal (and Ollie's lordly...?)
Ending is hard - conserve breath and look at Ollie
Clashy bit...Put all your breathe into the notes, don't sing breathily though, and watch tuning
Generally, don't go flat. Especially Altos with the A Flat, which should be a sharp flat rather than a flat flat
Altos and basses - Listen to the Lamb as much as possible this week to get it into your heads
(think there's something about the tenors making something sharp and becoming wild...er...maybe mild...)
I, a child - pp and poco meno mosso - (a bit quieter!)
Whoever has the G, F Sharp, G - make sure you get back up to the G when you go down to the F Sharp
You can take a breath before - Who made thee
Aim for the funny line things - Tenutos - It's a small line under the note and it tells you to aim for that note and give it its full value.

Gaelic Set
The only dodgy bit is the entrance to Cota fad 'air. Think it's because we're concentrating on words
No dynamics.

Fhir a bhata
Last note of first and second lines are now crotchets
mp first line and warm through second line.
'Mo shoraidh 'slan - Get louder through it, then go down in volume and keep it quiet through to the end of chorus
We go flat in the first chord. Try to keep a G in your head. Tuning is a bit of a bugger.
Remember tuning and dynamics
Women - Know your words. And don't leave the endings off words like nochd
NO t sounds. Put tongue behind the teeth
Peter will help you which is nice. (I assume with the pronounciation rather than helping you put your tongue behind your teeth!)

Island Spinning Song
B (is that what's being given, or was Robin about to swear?!
Alto solos in verse 3 - Anne, Rachael, Jenny, Natalie

River Dance
Very last line. Oh, that's what it sounds like. Hmmm?

Yoshke
Not the best
We went over the words . Not sure how to write it down. Look at Sebastian's pronounciations.
See music.

Praeb san Ol
Sung it again once through

NB We now have a Whithorn List of Songs. We got it about a week ago, actually. 11 of those songs will be used for Juniper Green. Ollie will be asking for volunteers to have an extra kink of rehearsal to go over songs which we've not covered just so there's a core of us who know them
really well.

Thanks,
Jenny (cos Robin is busy being a doctor)