On 28 Jan 2006 at 17:40, John Howell wrote: > Some singers will attempt to write the additional verses in along with > the notation. Messy. They're the ones who can't (or won't!) memorize > their parts!
Well, there can be text underlay issues that can make it tricky, if the lyrics are not metricly uniform. > Personal opinion: Any song with 10 verses shows lack of craft on the > part of the poet, quite typical of amateurs, and needs to be either > shortened or "arranged" so that you aren't repeating the same music > over and over and over and over and ... I think that's a vast overstatement. This recording: http://www.dfenton.com/Collegium/Musick-Musik/11- Buxtehude%20Muz%20der%20Tod%20denn%20auch%20entbinden.mp3 (a slower performance, somewhat less well in tune, of the same piece without the excessive distortion from the source recording: http://www.dfenton.com/Collegium/HimmelsChor/10- Buxtehude%20Musz%20der%20Tod%20denn%20auch%20entbinden.mp3 ) (and no, that's not our bows shaking -- it's intentional bow vibrato, our interpretation of Buxtehude's "tremolo" indication; I think it's quite beautiful) has only 3 of 8 verses performed, but that's because we were tailoring the length of the performance to fit into the concert. Buxtehude considered it OK, as he wrote the piece for his father's funeral. The challenge is to vary the mood and affect of each verse to convey the content of the words. Yes, it's a challenge. But perhaps this piece was composed for a processional, perhaps even for the carrying of the body from from the church at the conclusion of a funeral service. In that case, all those verses would serve a useful purpose. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
