NOTES for Week of September 22, 2024

Hello friends,

Let My Love Be Heard

• Practice singing with attention to dynamics
• NOTE: Rhythm is incorrect on the recording in mm. 14 and 23
• Women: begin subdividing into triplets as you sustain m. 30 so it proceeds smoothly into the new rhythm. Men: be aware that you're still in duple rhythm

Magnificat

• Practice finding you pitch at the entrances based on the chords in the into
• Keep tempo stead in mm. 7-8 and following entrances like it
• Practice added cresc. poco a poco in mm. 19-20
• Close to -m on beat 4 in m. 31 and on beat 1 in m. 36
• Note you're in uniton mm. 53-54, and 61-62
• Write in crescendo on beats 2-3 with diminuendo to beat 4 in mm. 97-98

Fum, Fum, Fum

• Sing with stylized elegance, and not too fast
• Fum's in quarter notes, ex: mm. 11-12, 15-16, 24-25, 27-28, should be full value and almost legato in contrast with women in mm. 47-48, 51-52
• Men clean up pitches/rhtys in mm. 47-48, 51-52, and 55-56
• Women cleanly articulate mm. 50, 54, and 58

Let Your Heart Speak Music

• Begining will have some rubato.
• Men work out harmonic transitions in m. 16 and 21-22
• Watch and count in mm. 38 to end

Ain't That-a Rockin'

• ATB start diminuendo in mm. 3
• Highlight and sing all dynamics and articulations
• Expand wear- in m. 8, 28, etc.
• Write dim. in mm. 20.
• Write f in m. 37, mf in m. 39, mp in m. 41.
• ALL write in your beats in measure where rhythm is trick or there's a break before coming in.
• Write in note to remind you that basses start alone at 74, then repeat with tenors, then repeat with everyone
• Get right off mercy in m. 92
• Sing last chord pp swell.

Let It Snow! (X's 3)

• Remember to repeat back to m. 9

FOR TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

My King is Comin' Soon

Est Ist Ein' Ros' Entsprungen

This Endris Night

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks

Festival Gloria

He is Born (Il est ne)