On Feb 28, 2006, at 6:41 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
G GRIFFITHS wrote:
Ah, but, in a Cathedral setting the soloist (who would be one of the
choir)
would sing with the choir when it says tutti.
I concede this is often, perhaps even usually, the case, but not
always. In any case, Darcy's question was about terminology; Walton
and OUP used "Solo" and "Tutti" and the fact that there are places
where the soloist sings at the same time as the other members of the
section suggest that "Tutti" mcan mean either "the other", or "all".
I might note too, that I've seen similar passages form other composers
and other publishers serving the same tradition who use "Verse" in
place of solo, and :"Full" in place of "Tutti."
Since I don't have enough information about the intended audience of
the composition Darcy is engraging to know whether the solo part is
such that the soloist could or would join the choir, I elected simply
to report what OUP did in a similar situation.
Darcy had mentioned that the soloist was singing at the same time as
the rest of the soprano section - that was what made it awkward to
label. I suppose it might be even more awkward if the sopranos and the
soloist might or might not sing at the same time. All the more reason
to have a separate staff, in that case.
Christopher
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