Please be sure to honor your at least 20 minutes per day practice commitment. Any and all effort toward keeping this commitment will be beneficial! Thanks!
Pro Arte:
We perform for Grace and Holy Trinity’s worship service on February 2nd – this Sunday!
PLEASE work on your music! This is what we plan to sing:
Stars I Shall Find – Please carefully review this piece and try to memorize. https://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&type=audio&productID=10340265. Please use this recording as an aid. This will be included in the prelude.
Top part – Molly, Matilde, Grace, Marquita, Othniel, Renna, Mikhail;
Bottom part – Lauren, Kamirra, Sadie, Siara, Chadwick, Mehr, Lilly. Chadwick and Mikhail sing one octave down.
Will There Really Be a “Morning?” – carefully review. Secure memory.
Mayan Song of Praise – review. We will sing it in the following sequence: English, Mayan Mopán, Spanish, English.
Nunc Dimittis – review entire piece on solfege. Let’s try this from memory on Sunday AM. Work on rhythmic accuracy and consonant placement at end of phrases.
Part 1 – Grace, Marquita, Rena, Molly, Matilde, Lilly, Mehr and Kamirra
Part 2 – Chadwick, Lauren, Siara, Sadie, Othniel and Mikhael
Samba Mass (The text and translation accompanies these practice notes. Please study the translation with your score, to fully understand the Latin text. Ignore the Credo, obviously, since it’s not included in Samba Mass.) S1 – Molly, Marquita, Grace, Renna and Othniel; S2 – Matilde, Lilly, Mehr and Mikhail T
S3 – Kamirra, Sadie, Siara, Lauren and Chadwick. Work toward having these movements memorized. We need to have our faces up and out of our scores. http://www.kitbraz.com/tchr/hist/med/mass_ordinary_text.html
Kyrie – soprano 1 singers need to review mm. 30 to the end, particularly mm. 40 – 47.
Sanctus and Benedictus – review. Spend the most time on the Benedictus. Soprano 1 singers work especially hard on mm. 22 – end.
Review and securely memorize Winds of Peace. Remember new part divisions to be used while singing without the other groups. Part 1 – Grace, Marquita and Molly; Part 2 – Othniel, Matilde, Renna, and Kamirra; Part 3 – Sadie, Lilly, Mehr and Mikhail; Part 4 – Siara, Lauren and Chadwick.
Continue working on the following for future performances:
Samba Mass; Gloria – review entire movement using solfege, then text. Spend time speaking the text in rhythm, particularly at the highly syncopated sections. Agnus Dei – review entire movement. Spend the most time on p. 29 – end.
