This is a beautiful Bach Chorale with lovely moving parts. It has a Christmas message, but more, I love the poetic language. Everyone should sing a Bach Chorale in their life-time.
All Parts:
Soprano Part:
Alto part:
Tenor part:
Bass part:
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Solstice Song
This is becoming a tradition for our winter concert.
All Parts:
Sop 1
Sop 2
Alto
Tenor
Bass
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I’m Beginning to See the Light
Nothing is more light-hearted and light-filled than a bouncy jazz standard. This one we’ve done before, but it’s been a while.
All Parts
soprano
alto 1
alto 2
tenor
bass/baritone
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Good Ale
All parts
These rehearsal tracks are slow, for accuracy purposes. Here is the bass part
Baritone:
Tenor:
Alto:
Soprano 2:
soprano 1:
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All the Way Home
A perfect concert closer!
All Parts:
soprano
alto
tenor
bass
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Sure on This Shining Night
Here are the parts to Sure on this Shining Night. The accompaniment is included, so for instance, at the beginning, you’ll hear the tenors and basses part, and some of you will just have to follow along because the altos and sopranos don’t come in until measure 16. It’s good practice to follow another part so huzzah for that. My advice would be to listen to it a few times, follow your part with your finger- make sure you mark your staff with a check or an x so that visually you can go from system to system with out getting lost. There is a good video link on our page here in the “parts for rehearsal” section that helps to de-mystify following a choral score if you might find it helpful.
- listen and follow
- after your part is familiar and you are an expert at following it, hum or sing on a vowel- ah or oh- until you can sing it accurately
- Lastly, add the text. This should always be the last thing that’s added. Be aware of phrasing. Never breathe in the middle of a word. Bad form.
- Don’t forget to use your breath. A long flowing part with many notes on one vowel sound is called melisma– it takes a lot of air to sing melismatic passages. Notice the beautiful open vowels the chorus below uses. That is our goal.
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New Session Begins Monday, September 18, 2023
Hello Singing Friends,
After a successful singing session in January, we are back at it! Everyone is looking forward to seeing each other, working together, and making beautiful music. There will be familiar and new selections that will create the idea that we are bringing in light at the darkest time of year by singing it in.
We will provide resources for you to be fully prepared for rehearsals by audio recording and posting our rehearsals, creating rehearsal tracks, and providing recordings of performances for your study. Not everything will be ready by the first week. It’s been a very busy end of summer.
Here’s the TASTIEST choral music we will be working on together.
Looking forward to seeing and hearing you all soon.
Cheers,
Alice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyH9epNNx4g
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What Is Peace?
This is part of a larger work, the text is based on the Beatitudes (from the Sermon on the Mount).
This stand-alone movement from Tuvayhun – Beatitudes for a Wounded World, is from Matthew 5: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be the children of God.”
SOPRANOS: Please everyone learn soprano 2. I will only put one or two voices on the sop 1 part, as it just needs to float and not be too heavy.
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