'Difficult' choral music, opinions on

[mercia]

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?6916-Difficult-choral-music-opinions-on

if D/E/C# mean D minor at bar 3 I don't see why they don't mean D minor at bar 8 - what key are we in at bar 8 ?

I now understand what you meant by "Tippett .. gives the treble soloist as much help as possible" - only with his first note and not thereafter

if you're telling me a scale of D minor does contain A flat, I've been under a misapprehension - apologies

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It's a shame so few of those recordings made it so CD, I agree. The BBC Singers regularly do that kind of thing, of course, but a lot of the pieces witten for the John Alldis Choir do seem to have disappeared from anyone's repertoire, don't they?

Yes; the emphasis today seems to be on small vocal ensembles such as Exaudi and the Neue Vocalisten Stuttgart - and James Weeks (who founded Exaudi) continues the astonishing work begun by James Wood with the New London Chamber Choir.

Does the London Sinfonietta Choir still exist? Clive Wearing got tremendous performances from them at around the same time as the John Alldis Choir.

[Gabriel Jackson]

if D/E/C# mean D minor at bar 3 I don't see why they don't mean D minor at bar 8 - what key are we in at bar 8 ?

I now understand what you meant by "Tippett .. gives the treble soloist as much help as possible" - only with his first note and not thereafter

if you're telling me a scale of D minor does contain A flat, I've been under a misapprehension - apologies

You are certainly under a misapprehension in that you think C has no place in a scale of D minor.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Am I seeing double?

[mercia]

You are certainly under a misapprehension in that you think C has no place in a scale of D minor.

I expect my confusion arose when you told me that D/E/C# [bar 3] was still clearly D minor

yes I know there are melodic and harmonic minor scales

[Nick Armstrong]

This seems to have spun out bizarrely into a separate, duplicate thread... I thought I was suddenly seeing double just now on the 'What's New?' page... and I haven't touched a drop today...

[Serial_Apologist]

This seems to have spun out bizarrely into a separate, duplicate thread... I thought I was suddenly seeing double just now on the 'What's New?' page... and I haven't touched a drop today...

It's of minor importance, Cal.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Am I seeing double?

It's "The Choir" Board, Alpie - think of it as counterpoint!

[Nick Armstrong]

It's of minor importance, Cal.

You're clearly feeling sharp today, S_A... whereas I feel unaccountably a little flat...

[MrGongGong]

The saddest of all keys ..........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgViOqGJEvM

[Gabriel Jackson]

I expect my confusion arose when you told me that D/E/C# [bar 3] was still clearly D minor

yes I know there are melodic and harmonic minor scales

I'm glad you've discovered that.

[Nick Armstrong]

Am I seeing double?

I had the same thought...

[mercia]

I'm glad you've discovered that.

indeed, a long time ago

nonetheless I'm glad you're glad

[Serial_Apologist]

The saddest of all keys ..........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgViOqGJEvM

Not the saddest of all love pumps though...

[Serial_Apologist]

It's also compliant with quantum physics that the same thing can be going on in two different places simultaneously.