rehearsal
Thu Dec 8 21:52:31 EST 2011
I've just gotten home from a rehearsal for the program of Christmas music this Sunday at the church where our choir rehearses. Strangely, this year, I'm more receptive to Xmas music than I usually am. It helps that some of the carols would classify as obscure by American standards. And the arrangements are adventurous, another plus. Unfortunately, we're simplifying things by not covering all the parts much of the time. Most of the group are not strong (music) readers, and it would take this group months to learn anything substantial. The tenors are the weakest section. The bass is good, but there's only one. I'm often singing with the bass, but it really isn't in my range. I'd have no problem holding the tenor part as an army of one, but much of the time I'd probably be heard only by the rest of the choir.I marvel to ponder what 12-16 people with my abilities, well distributed over the voice ranges, could accomplish. We could sight-read an amazing amount of music, probably making some fascinating group-influenced errors the first time through, correcting almost everything the 2nd time, and then falling into the woodshedding mode - there's some sort of hyperacuity available the first few times through that I can't sustain, and I have to start learning the music. But we'd learn fast.
[2016: Can you say "Chorulus Pennsicus"?]
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I've just gotten home from a rehearsal for the program of Christmas music this Sunday at the church where our choir rehearses. Strangely, this year, I'm more receptive to Xmas music than I usually am. It helps that some of the carols would classify as obscure by American standards. And the arrangements are adventurous, another plus. Unfortunately, we're simplifying things by not covering all the parts much of the time. Most of the group are not strong (music) readers, and it would take this group months to learn anything substantial. The tenors are the weakest section. The bass is good, but there's only one. I'm often singing with the bass, but it really isn't in my range. I'd have no problem holding the tenor part as an army of one, but much of the time I'd probably be heard only by the rest of the choir.I marvel to ponder what 12-16 people with my abilities, well distributed over the voice ranges, could accomplish. We could sight-read an amazing amount of music, probably making some fascinating group-influenced errors the first time through, correcting almost everything the 2nd time, and then falling into the woodshedding mode - there's some sort of hyperacuity available the first few times through that I can't sustain, and I have to start learning the music. But we'd learn fast.
[2016: Can you say "Chorulus Pennsicus"?]
[This entry was originally posted as http://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/487357.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]