Concert/Treble
Practice instructions – at least 20 minutes per day
The next few days offer the last opportunity to refine the music for the Spring Concert! Please be sure to do your part to contribute to the success of the group!
Treble and Concert:
Finish memorizing Siyahamba. Practice speaking the text several times over in rhythm to help you get used to the different languages. Voice 1 – Treble choir plus Wills, Nishorgo, Caetie; Voice 2 – Shantoya, Keziah, Marquita, Maria; Voice 3 – Kamirra, Molly, Matilde and Nora.
Treble:
It’s in My Desk – Secure memory work
How Can I Keep from Singing? – Be certain you can hold melody part in the two part section. Review memory work.
Review: Heaven, Lady of Liberty, Love is Little, America the Beautiful. Check memory work.
Concert:
Sakura – Secure text memorization. Work hard on holding your own part in tune. Practice coming in with the correct pitches at the beginning and at measure 39. Alto 1 – be sure you know your correct pitches beginning at measure 23.
(Soprano 1 – Caetie, Maria and Shantoya; Soprano 2 – Wills, Marquita and Nishorgo; Alto 1 – Kamirra and Molly, Alto 2 – Matilde, Keziah and Nora)
May God be Merciful – Secure text memorization. Be sure you can hold your own part. All parts should practice on solfege syllables to be certain the correct pitches are being sung. This was a bit of a problem on Tuesday evening. Voice three, be sure to sing in your lighter head voice on the lower notes. Do not force your sound.
(Voice 1 – Molly, Matilde, Nora; Voice 2 – Kamirra, Keziah, Marquita and Maria; Voice 3 – Wills, Nishorgo, Shantoya and Caetie).
The Old Carrion Crow – Review memory work. Be sure your part is accurately learned.
(Part 1 – Caetie, Shantoya, Wills, Nishorgo, Maria and Marquita; Part 2 – Molly, Nora, Kamirra, Matilde, Keziah)
Lady of Liberty – Review. Wills, Shantoya, Nishorge and Caetie need to have the bottom part learned for mm. 70 – end. Descant singers need to review the rhythm at m. 67.
How Can I Keep from Singing? – Be certain you can hold melody part in the two part section. Review memory work.
Review America the Beautiful
Pro Arte/Cavalieri
The next few days offer the last opportunity to refine the music for the Spring Concert! Please be sure to do your part to contribute to the success of the group!
Pro Arte – Memorize Shenandoah by Tuesday. Part 1 – Erica, Grace, Sharita and Dominique; Part 2 – Sophie, Siara, Faith, Part 3 – Meghan, Katherine, Lauren.
Plenty Good Room – Please have this memorized by Tuesday. Meaghan will sing the first solo and Katherine the second solo. Katherine, please use the recording that was sent last week to guide you on the improvisation. Same part division as the Schalk Chorale Motets.
Mass for Three Voices: Keep practicing this regularly in the following ways: practice counting while singing your part, singing on solfege syllables for tuning, and singing with the text while carefully thinking about pitch and rhythm. Pay special attention to memorizing the counting on rests and longer note values.
Remember to use the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Am1PQ0p39w
Remember to give slight crescendos on longer note values. Also, remember to lift on dots and repeated notes.
Simple Song – Review. Remember using open vowels and crisp consonants. Work on phrasing.
Gloria Tibi - Review. Rhythmic breaths.
Cavalieri – Laudate Dominum and Give me your Tired. Work on phrasing
Review the Schalk Motets, Draw the Circle Wide and The Storm is Passing Over, Lady of Liberty, Siyahamba and Freedom is Coming.
