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The music is the chorus part from "Three little
maids". My wife says this is normally sung as 1st sop, 2nd sop,
alto. All the other notes are stem-up, and the performers just sing the
top, middle or bottom note as appropriate. I guess the 2 lower notes are
stem down for this one note to emphasise the fact that it's a # and a nat -
either that or the engraver couldn't work out how to do it otherwise. The
chorus would just sing the top, middle and bottom note, as before, so no
confusion.
Truth is, of course, that no non-professional
chorus member would ever sing the Fnat - the 3 principals are all singing F#
with the top sops, so the 2nd sops will follow the crowd and sing the #.
Bet all the pros do, too.
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Phil Holmes
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 2:18
PM
Subject: Re: Odd output
Thanks Phil, I'm curious about the vocal part. Why is the
stemming different than the piano reduction? As written, it indicates
SAA division on the first chord and SSS (no Alto!) on the second.
This may seem trivial and skilled singers will generally do the right
thing. OTOH, I've frequently seen rehearsals of a 100+ member chorus
interrupted when notation less confusing than this causes someone to ask which
notes s/he should be singing.
Cheers, Mike
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Phil Holmes <address@hidden>
wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Puttock" <address@hidden>
To: "James Lowe" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Keith OHara" <address@hidden>;
<address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, December 17,
2010 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: Odd output
On 17 December 2010 23:09, James Lowe < address@hidden> wrote:
I am not a vocal specialist but just using this one
simplistic example of C seems erroneous. Isn't the idea of the notes
printed at the same moment to show that they need to be sung at the same
moment if you see what I mean? Yes I am sure that a vocalist can make
their own mind up, but if that is the reasoning then it doesn't matter
what we use then does it and you can provide instruction
accordingly.
I've only seen this notation in piano music
(I guess Phil's Mikado example is part of the piano reduction
accompanying the voices), whereby the melodic line is kept separate from
the accompaniment. Attached is another example from the Mikuli
edition of Chopin's Impromptu in G flat
major. Cheers, Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The
beamed version is indeed the piano reduction. I've put some extra info
about this in the tracker, but for the record, here's the vocal and piano
parts.
--
Phil
Holmes
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