For the month of November, the focus needs to move beyond learning and knowing the music to getting it ALL memorized. This is going to take daily work on your part. I sent you an email about practice and memorizing, but we also have some helps and hints right here on the production website here: Tips for practicing and learning your music.
So, to that end, you should have the following things already memorized:
1. Nova, nova
2, Noel nouvelet
2, Noel nouvelet
3. Verbum patris umanatur
4. Alle psallite
5. Quant je voi yver (English verse)
5. Lord of the Dance (refrains)
6. Il est né (in English) – newly memorized
7. Dona nobis pacem – newly memorized
8. Boar’s Head Carol (refrains)
So, we still have a large number of songs to memorize between now and November 18-19. The music notes below are a pathway to making those strides in the coming weeks.
Edi Beo Thu
REMINDERS:
— Keep the pitch up, especially when returning to the F’s
— Keep the pitch up, especially when returning to the F’s
— Find the “lilt” (feel each measure in “1”)
— Maude (SR group) and Jennie W. (SL group) will visually lead tempo
— Script correction: Words are now corrected in the script, in case anyone wants to reprint that pages where the words were incorrect (see: https://production.revelsdc.org/script-running-order/)
— Maude (SR group) and Jennie W. (SL group) will visually lead tempo
— Script correction: Words are now corrected in the script, in case anyone wants to reprint that pages where the words were incorrect (see: https://production.revelsdc.org/script-running-order/)
For November 8 – fully memorized
Quant je voi yver retorner
Please review the words!
For November 8 – fully memorized
For November 8 – fully memorized
Kyrie
REMINDERS:
— Christe section will go a bit faster
— All, please keep listening to how the parts work together (beyond just singing your own part)
— Christe section will go a bit faster
— All, please keep listening to how the parts work together (beyond just singing your own part)
— Please make sure to watch at the end for a slight ritard.
— Basses – no “i” sylable in m. 9 (note that this is different than what we said in sectionals!)
— Basses – m. 38 watch the syncopation, it’s getting behind
— Blocking note: Betsy’s “track” and position for the conducting
For November 8 – fully memorized
— Basses – m. 38 watch the syncopation, it’s getting behind
— Blocking note: Betsy’s “track” and position for the conducting
For November 8 – fully memorized
L’homme armé
For November 8 – fully memorized
Conditor Alme Siderum
REMINDERS:
— Separate the 8th note / quarter note in m. 16 (top and middle parts)
— Separate the 8th note / quarter note in m. 16 (top and middle parts)
— ALL parts, please lift at comas (especially in the 2nd verse)
— Baritone part, resist the urge to rush the syncopation in m 20
— Slight ritard at the end both times
— Baritone part, make sure the rhythm lines up, subdivide
For November 8 – fully memorized
— Slight ritard at the end both times
— Baritone part, make sure the rhythm lines up, subdivide
For November 8 – fully memorized
Il est né
— English word “divine” pronounced “dih-vine,” not “dee-vine”
— On the word “past” in mm. 10 and 14, put the “st” on beat 4
— Lift at the coma between mm. 9 and 10, and mm. 13 and 14 in second verse
— Slight ritard. at the end of each verses
For November 1 – fully memorized
Dona Nobis Pacem
For November 1 – fully memorized
The Hunt is Up
— Please all learn the Refrain (note the word changes in each repeat):
To bring the deer to bay. (1st time)
To bring the boar to bay. (2nd time)
To bring the fox to bay. (3rd time)
— And these verses:
Behold the skies with golden dyes, are glowing all around;
The holly is green, the winter wind keen, all laughing at the sound.
The sun is glad to see us clad, All in our finest green,
And smiles in the sky as he riseth high, to see and to be seen.
The east is bright with morning light, And darkness it is fled,
The merry horn wakes up the morn, how could we stay in bed?
For November 18 – fully memorized
J’atendray tant qu’il vous playra
— For now — all learn the refrain (mm. 1-30, top line of words only)
— Make sure that you have the new score, if you were absent last week
— Small group assignments for the rest of the music:
TOP: Jan E., Jennie W., Elisabeth W., Maud, Diana
TOP: Jan E., Jennie W., Elisabeth W., Maud, Diana
MIDDLE: Guen S., Eleanore F., Erin, S. Jessica E.
LOW: Jane B., Jenny C., Caroline B.
LOW: Jane B., Jenny C., Caroline B.
For November 18 – fully memorized
Gloria ad modum tubae – practice, practice
REMINDERS:
— Tenors and Basses switch from groups to your own parts, m. 46 (after the “Ave”s)
— Tenors and Basses switch from groups to your own parts, m. 46 (after the “Ave”s)
— Keep the back and forth parts as uniform as possible
— Lift at the comas between each Gloria Deo
For November 18 – fully memorized
2 Comments
Claudia H Dulmage · October 30, 2023 at 9:39 pm
Betsy, in your tips for practicing and learning your music, you suggest always have our MP3s/Practice CDs with us – is there such a thing as a practice CD? B/c I’d love to have one of those – we used to get them a few years
back. That’s what my car can handle. As for MP3s, is there some way or some place where all the MP3s are consolidated in one place so one could at least go to that link on one’s phone and listen that way, or play all songs
at the computer w/o going to each MP3 individually? Sorry to be old school, but I have a good excuse!
Washington Revels · November 7, 2023 at 2:40 pm
We do not have CD’s.