Rudsamblog

Dream Angus

Sang through this a couple of times. It is not difficult but some of the harmonies need to be looked at.

Homework!

The Optimist's Song

The rhythms are a bit tricky at first sight but pretty consistent through the piece. Worth having a look at to fit the words in. John pointed out that it is important to remember the piece is not in 9/8. The last beat of the bar is a crotchet and not dotted.

Cloths of Heaven

Last time we sang this we hummed through once before singing. It is very short indeed and needs something extra. Hum the first 8 bars and then open out to an 'ah' until the end. There was some discussion as to breathing and removing some of the breath marks as we did before but Derrick will probably have his own ideas about this so...

Diction is very important. The words are lovely, don't lose them.

Sopranos, watch your last note; it has a tendency to go flat.

Daniel Servant of the Lord

Sang through twice. Do have a look at this at home as it is worth doing if we can. The solo tenor and bass parts will need to be strong. 

On the Underground

We sang through Dreams but it was rather ghastly. Need to decide whether we are going to work on it or not.

Piranhas went better. It fell apart at bar 65 the first time around but was better on the second sing.

Dynamics need work as does diction. Enjoy the words. Spit them out, particularly things like 'piranha fish' bars 11-12, 'agitated' bar 28 and 'shoogling' bar 30.

Watch for changes in time signature eg bar 4 and 20. There are quite a few and it would be worth circling them.

Abendfeier

Need to look at the notes. Altos, thé B natural in bar 11 is tricky and the jump up to the A, first note of bar 36 caused some problems.

The first notes of bar 34 form an A major chord. Listen.

Have a look at bar 43/44. It wasn't right!

A bit of work improved things over all but keep working on it at home.

Gondoliera

We sang it through but then concentrated on page 3 as it is slightly easier (!) and we thought we might at least get that right. Not sure we succeeded so needs work.

Generally, everything would benefit from individual efforts before the next rehearsal. Nothing was a complete disaster but...!

For next week:

Piranhas

The 2 Schumann pieces

Se del tuo corpo

Daniel

We will go over the words for Oro for those who haven't sung it.

See you on Wednesday.


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