Rudsamblog

Hi

A good rehearsal last night but still a few reminders for the concert on SUNDAY- if you haven't marked these in your music - now is y our chance!

Scotland at Night

Dusk

Lower parts and 2nd sops - remember to hum bars 19-end 23

Bar 7 - look up - esp at word 'love'

Bar 8 - don't diminuendo till 'tion' of determination

Bar 17 - more crescendo 

Refinery

Revise the rhythm of bar 27 - so that it is correct in concert

 'ch' of torch!

rythym  a bit more skippy in bars 5-6

momentary bars 22-23 staccato/separate

Ceilidh

First bars lower parts - not too fast! Listen to the sops

Crescendo over 2 bars in 11-12; 15-16; 23-24

Simmer Dim

B natural in the basses - don't go flat

Bar 12 - sops/alto - F natural not too loud (sops); D natural not too sharp (altos)

Bar 19 - diminuendo in basses

From bar 14 onwards - keep legato line - not sing sep notes

Trout

Relax!

Bar 22 - sops - make a difference between mf and mp

Lullaby 

Good! but watch Derrick and respond to his dynamics and tempo changes

My Guardian Angel

Long notes needs shape

Generally if notes get higher, needs crescendo , if notes get lower, needs diminuendo

On the Underground - WILL BE GOING STRAIGHT ON FROM DREAMS TO SUBWAY PIRAHNAS - NO BREAK

Dreams

Bar 7 - sops the note is A flat - major third 

Bar 13 - accents need to be done

Bar 12 - sops and altos - diminuendo as marked!

Subway Pirahnas

Bar 13 - fish is full length - 'sh' on 2nd beat - NOT EARLY

Accents bars 21 and 36

Bar 65? - sops DON'T RUSH (you know which bar this is!)

Bar 62 - make 'sch' of school

Bar 76 - sop, ten2 and bass - final accent on quaver

Sleep Well

Bar 28 - sop - back into tempo 

Bar 64 - the upbeat is in tempo don't be late

Bar 33 - not abrasive in alto and tenor

Lucy

Will Repeat! - 2nd time round - watch Derrick as will change  tempo etc on the day

Basses - support the other parts but do not drown them out!

Final 2 bars - there are 2 cutoffs - one for T/B first and then one for S/A

She Walks in Beauty

Lower parts - bars 12 and 14 - dimuendo at beg of crescendo 

Bar 39 - soprano - make line legato not sep notes

After Culloden

Bar 10 - bass - starts on the bar not before with upper parts

Bar 25 - eye contact to keep tempo

Bar 26 - sops to be quieter

Bar 50 onwards - gets quicker

Bar 57  - goes into quavers!

Bar 68-73 - all to crescendo 

Bar 76 - crescendo to end 

# posted by rudsambass @ 7:50 am