Notes 4-22

Dear Singers

Great rehearsal last night! We are going to present a wonderful program. A few notes…

Notes

Lark in the Clear Air

  • Altos, Tenors, Basses mm 12 – 14: Drill these notes carefully. It is tough for all three parts
  • Tenors m 21: check these notes
  • Altos m 32, 36: no breath
  • Bass 2 mm 50 – 59: One more look

Sweet Suffolk Owl

  • m 17 “Thou” is p
  • m 21 is an echo, so pp
  • S1 m72: in case you didn’t get the memo. The first note is a G
  • S2 m 82: You are the stars!

Little Birds

  • It is a pleasure to pick at things like this:
    • all “e”s should be very close to an ih
    • all “t”s are like “d”s
    • SA mm 24 – 25 cresc.
  • mm 30 – 40 worked beautifully!
  • The flying paper birds at the end also work very well!

Kasar mie la gaji

  • Please figure out a way that you can remember the two major transitions:
    • m 14 to 15
    • m 30 to 31
    • Perhaps use the YouTube video or Bandlab
      • https://youtu.be/_o6-usLi4Fs
        • One thing that I notice in the video is that the director is giving the group 2 beats for nothing. I will do that!

Break, Break, Break

  • Please do not take a breath after “break”. Stagger your breathing and connect the “k” to the next sylable (“brea-kbrea-kbre…”)

Blue Bird

  • Please keep the beat going. This will happen if you make sure to come in on time on “below the hill” (+ of 4). Please do this without me having to do strange conductory things.
  • Cutoffs
    • m 3 on beat 3
    • m 9 on beat 3
    • m 21 on beat 2 (yes, that’s right–no breath mm 10 – 21)
    • m 25 on beat 3
    • m 29 on beat 3
    • SAT m 35 on beat 3
    • SAT m 38 on beat 1
    • B m 35 on beat 2
    • B m 37 on beat 4
  • Nice job transitioning from Break, Break, Break!

Old Carrion Crow

  • Do  what you need to do to make sure you do not blow throught the rit. at mm 11, 18, 31, 37, 51, 57, 78, 91, 97. BTW, are you noticing a pattern?🙂

Big Yellow Taxi

  • TB be alert to the accelerando at 54. I promise I will try to be very clear.
  • We should all be at the original tempo at 60

Earth Song

  • Yes, we have talked about cutoffs in this song. Yes, it is complicated. Yes, it IS important!
    • Cutoffs (please check that you have these correctly in your score)
      • m 8 beat 3
      • SA m 10: + of 3
      • TB m 10 no breath
      • m 12 + of 3
      • S m 15 and 16: + of 3
      • ATB m 15 and 16: + of 4
      • SA m 18 + of 3
      • TB m 18 + of 4
      • m 20 + of 3
      • S m 24 and 25: + of 3
      • ATB m 24 and 25: + of 4
      • SAT m 29 + of 3
      • m 33 beat 3
      • S m 34 + of 4
      • ATB m 34 no breath
      • m 35, 36, 37 + of 3
      • ST m 39 + of 3
      • AB m 39 + of 4B
      • S m 40 beat 4
      • A2,TB m 40 + of 4
      • STB mm 41, 42 + of 4
      • m 43 + of 4

Mark